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Budgetary Relief Allowance Of Workers (No.2) Law (No.2 Law ) - Sect 12

Interpretation

12. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires- " Collective Agreement " has the same meaning as in the Industrial disputes Act; " Commissioner " means the person for the time being holding the office of Commissioner of Labour and includes any person for the time being holding office as a deputy Commissioner of Labour or as a Senior Assistant Commissioner of Labour or as an Assistant Commissioner of Labour or as a Labour Officer : "co-operative society" means a co-operative Law, No. 5 of 1972 : "earnings" shall have the same meaning as in the Employees Provident Fund Act, No. 15 of 1958 ; "employer " means any person who on his own behalf employs, or on whose behalf any other person employs, any worker in any trade and includes any person who on behalf of any other person employs any worker in any trade ; " trade " includes any industry, business, undertaking, occupation, profession or calling employer or worker, and any branch of, or any function or process in, any trade, but does not include any industry, business or understanding , which is carried on by any body corporate or incorporate whose capital is wholly provided by the Government in its capacity as an employer or which is carried on mainly for the purpose of giving an industrial training to juvenile offenders or orphans or persons who are destitute, dumb, deaf or blind; and " worker " means a person employed by any employer under a contract whether oral, written, expressed or implied to perform, any work in any trade, industry, business occupation or calling, and includes a worker whose salary or wages are regulated by any written law or otherwise, and a worker employed on a piece-rate basis, but does not include a domestic servant or an employer's personal chauffeur.


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