Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “appropriate Government” means— (i) in relation to— (1) any establishment of any railway, major port, mine or oilfield, (2) any establishment owned, controlled or managed by the Central Government, (3) any establishment of an industry engaged in banking or insurance, (4) any establishment of a ಉತ್ಪಾದನೆ (or any other) corporation or body established by or under a Central Act, (5) any other establishment the control of which is vested in the Central Government, the Central Government; (ii) in relation to any other establishment, the State Government; (b) “employee” means any person who is employed in an establishment to do any work for remuneration; (c) “employer” means any person who employs one or more other persons to do any work in an establishment for remuneration and includes any person entrusted with the supervision and control of employees in such establishment; (d) “employment exchange” means any office or place established and maintained by the Government for the collection and furnishing of information, either by the keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting— (i) persons who seek to engage employees, (ii) persons who seek employment; (e) “establishment” means— (a) any office, or (b) any place where any industry, trade, business or occupation is carried on; (f) “establishment in public sector” means an establishment owned, controlled or managed by— (1) the Government or a department of the Government, (2) a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), (3) a corporation (including a co-operative society) established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, which is owned, controlled or managed by the Government, (4) a local authority; (g) “establishment in private sector” means an establishment which is not an establishment in public sector and where ordinarily twenty-five or more persons are employed to work for remuneration; (h) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) “unskilled office work” means work done in an establishment by any of the following categories of employees, namely:— (1) Daftary, (2) Jamadar, Peon and Sweeper, (3) Watchman, (4) Lascar, (5) Packer, (6) Any other employee doing any routine or unskilled work which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be unskilled office work.