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This article throws light upon the the three main types of allowances provided to
workers. The types are: 1. Process Allowances 2. Personal and Rest Allowances 3.
Special Allowances
A worker generally feels discouraged if unluckily the idle lime becomes a major
portion of the total cycle time because even if he works at a fast pace rate during
the non-idle time, he can hardly boost his low earnings.
If the worker is attending machine B and the automatic cycle time of machine A
is over, naturally machine A will stop and the worker is not in a position to attend
the same until he makes machine B to start. ‘Random interference allowances’
are given on machines which stop or have to be stopped due to certain causes
occurring at random (e.g., when a yarn breaks in winding).
“A contingency allowance is an allowances of time that is to be added in normal time or to be included in
standard time to meet the legitimate and unexpected items of work or delays, the precise measurement of
which is not economical due to their irregular and infrequent nature of occurrences.”