Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 12. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires- " Commissioner " " employer " and " wages " have the same meanings respectively, as in the Wages Boards Ordinance; " trade " includes any industry, business, undertaking, occupation, profession or calling carried on performed or exercised by an employer or worker and any branch of, or any function or process in any trade but does not include any industry. business or undertaking which is carried on by any body corporate or unincorporate 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 in any capacity by any employer under a contract whether oral, written, expressed or implied, to perform any work in any trade, 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. |