This document discusses various types of working patterns: Shift work involves dividing the day into shifts so that different groups of workers take over duties across 24 hours each day of the week. Fixed term employment contracts hire employees for a limited time period to perform specific temporary tasks. Office hours typically refer to standard business hours from 9am to 5pm where employees work throughout the day except for lunch. Freelance workers are self-employed and not committed to a single long-term employer. Irregular patterns involve working inconsistent hours or days such as twice a week or unusual hours. Hourly rates describe the amount an employer agrees to pay per hour worked such as £12 per hour. Piece work pays employees based on the number of items

1. WORKING PATTERNS
Unit 8
Assignment 2c

2. SHIFT WORK
 Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use
of, or provide service across, all 24 hours of the clock each
day of the week. The practice typically sees the day divided
into "shifts", set periods of time during which dif ferent groups
of workers take up their posts. The term "shift work" includes
both long-term night shifts and work schedules in which
employees change or rotate shifts.

3. FIXED TERM
 A fixed-term employment contract is an employment contract
by which an employer (company, enterprise) recruits an
employee for a limited period of time. these kinds of
contracts are possible only to perform a specific, temporary
task, and only in those cases set out by law. For example, a
fixed-term employment contract may be used to replace an
employee who is absent or provisionally working part time, or
to replace an employee who has not yet taken up their
position.

4. OFFICE HOURS
 Office hours refers to the time spent working during
a normal business day, which is typically from 9am
to 5pm. Meaning the employees are expected to
work throughout the entire day (except during lunch)
and receive a fixed pay per month or week.

5. FREELANCE
 A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who is
self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer
long-term. These workers are sometimes represented by a
company or an agency that resells their labor and that of
others to its clients with or without project management and
labor contributed by its regular employees. Others are
completely independent.

6. IRREGULAR PATTERNS
 This is when someone works but in non -consistent
hours or days, which can be working on a contract
that only requires you to come in twice a week, or at
unusual hours.

7. HOURLY RATES
 The term “hourly wage” describes a rate an employer agrees
to pay a worker per hour worked, such as £12 per hour or
£17.50 per hour. The “average” or “mean” is an estimated
hourly rate calculated using the varying hourly rates of a
group of workers in a specific occupation. The source of the
data used depends on the reason you want the average. For
example, you might want to know the average for workers in
the same company, dif ferent companies or dif ferent regions;
or the average by worker gender or age.

8. PIECE WORK
 Paid by the piece is the number of things they make, or tasks
they complete (known as „output work‟), paid in other ways.
Piece work originated in the putting out system, and remains
a valid way of paying workers subject to certain restrictions.
Piece workers must be paid either at least the minimum wage
for every hour worked or on the basis of a „fair rate‟ for each
task or piece of work they do. Output work can only be used in
limited situations when the employer doesn‟t know which
hours the worker does (e.g. some home workers). If an
employer sets the working hours and the workers have to
clock in and out, this counts as time work, not as output work.