During the winter, business is slack. In order to improve his cashflow, Pini wishes to offer a substantial discount to those who order and pay for decorating in the winter, the actual work being performed in the summer.
Workers usually receive four dinars for a day s work during the season.
He agrees to prepayment at the rate of one dinar per day. However, there is a permitted method of making a reduced prepayment. He gives him a rate of pay which is less than it would have been if he had only started employing him if the season had already arrived. For example, if the season lasts thirty days and the daily rate of pay is four dinars , the worker s total wages would amount to 120 dinars . He decides to start employing the worker long before the beginning of the season, at the rate of one dinar per day.