Who are out workers?

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Q. Who are out workers?

ChseodishaCHSE Odisha Plus Two (Class 12) Commerce Board 2019Subjective· 2mImportance★★★★★est

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Out workers are those who do the firm's work outside the factory — at sites or at home.

In labour classification, out workers are of two broad kinds: (i) those sent out to work on sites/jobs away from the factory (e.g. construction or repair work at a customer's premises), and (ii) those who take raw material and do the work at their own homes and return the finished goods. Their time and output need special control (job cards, strict checking of returned work and materials) because they are not under direct fact …

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CBSE 2023Set ANNUAL1 mark
$Q. Fill in the blanks :$
(xi) The workers who take materials from the factory and make finished goods at their own premises are known as ______ .
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Fill in: Out-workers.

Out-workers are workers who are given raw materials by the factory and who make the finished goods at their own homes/premises rather than inside the factory.

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$Q. Wages of a carpenter in furniture manufacturing shop, is :$
(a) Direct wages
(b) Direct expenses
(c) Indirect wages
(d) Indirect expenses
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A carpenter directly converts wood into furniture, so his pay is direct wages — option (a).

In +2 Class-12 Cost Accounting (CHSE Odisha, NCERT/CBSE-aligned), direct wages (direct labour cost) are paid to workers who are directly engaged in manufacturing the product and whose work can be identified with it. A carpenter in a furniture-making shop i …

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$Q. The workers who are not on the payroll of the factory, but are engaged to meet the extra load in the factory, are known as :$
(a) Casual workers
(b) Out workers
(c) Regular workers
(d) Permanent workers
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Temporary workers taken on to meet extra load, not on the permanent payroll, are casual workers — option (a).

In +2 Class-12 Cost Accounting (CHSE Odisha), labour is classified by nature of engagement:

Casual workers — engaged temporarily, as and when needed, to meet an extra/peak load; not on the regular payroll. Correct. …
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CBSE 2020Set ANNUAL1 mark
$Q. Fill in the blank: ________ labour cost is a part of production overhead.$
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The missing word is 'Indirect'.

Labour cost is split into direct labour (traceable to a job/unit) and indirect labour (not traceable). Indirect labour - foremen, cleaners, maintenance workers, timekeepers - cannot be charged to a single unit, so its cost is collected as **indirect lab …

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