Different Types of Labour hour

Different Types of Labour hour

There are four types of labour hour term used in production process. These all types are different from each other and a deep understanding is required of these hour. These hour are usually confused with each other.

Basic Labour hour

Basic Labour hour is the number of minimum hour required from a labour to work. This is more like an office timing concept when a employee is required to attend the office.

Productive Labour Hour

Productive hours are the actual number of hour worked by the employee or worker. it is to be noted that productive hour may exceed the basic hour.

Paid Labour Hour

Paid hour is clearly from the terminology that worker paid for hour , sometime paid hour are more than productive hour because of idle time. simply you can say these are hour for which employee was available for work and therefore paid.

Standard Labour Hour

Standard hour is basically used to measure the efficiency of worker, The standard hour are calculated with reference to the unit produced by the employee. The efficiency is calculated for the purpose of bonus payment etc.