Off farm work

CLEM.Activities.LabourActivityOffFarm

Manages labour supplied and income earned from off-farm work.

Income can be supplemented by off-farm work. This activity manages labour and payments for work off the farm. The position of this activity in the simulation tree will determine the priority of on-farm and off-farm labour usage. See Importance of component order

There is currently no reciprocal labour arrangement where off-farm work is repaid by labour at another time.

This scenario could be simulated by adding a hire labour entry with availability but no pay rate (zero) in a given month and performing off farm work with no pay in another month.

The following parameters are used to define this activity

This parameter points to one of the defined Finance types in the Finance group of the Resources available for this simulation. This entry is a drop down list of available Finance types.

This parameter will determine what action is taken if there are insufficient resources to perform this activity.

You can report an error and stop the simulation, skip this activity or use the resources available. See What to do when resources are limiting

The following components are required to use this activity

This activity provides the following units for components: fixed

Any Labour requirement will include labour allocation to perform this activity based on any specified identifiers and units and may limit the outcomes if supported and OnPartialResourcesAvailableAction set to UseAvailableWithImplications

The Labour pricing details provided for the Labour resource are used to determine the current hire rates to be used for payment.

The following components will add additional functionality to this activity

Adding a timer to the Off farm work activity will ensure that it does not occur every time-step (see Using timers)

This activity is performed during the Get Resources Required event of the setup and time-step events. This is the standard, monthly clock event by which CLEM activities request resources and perform actions based on the resources provided, therefore this activity will compete with most activities in the time-step with their location in the simulation tree determining the order they are processed (this includes activities located on other CLEM and Market components). If this activity relies on another activity having been performed, or other activities rely on this activity in the time-step, ensure it has been performed in the correct order based on it's position in the simulation tree.

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