55. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- " casual employee " means any employee employed by an employer to perform, work of a casual nature on not more than one hundred and eighty days in any year in the aggregate ; " Commissioner" means the person for the time being holding the office of the Commissioner of Labour and includes
| (a) any person for the time being holding the office of Deputy or Senior Assistant Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of Labour ; |
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| (b) in respect of any power, duty or function of the Commissioner under this Act, any person authorised in writing by the Commissioner to exercise such power, perform such duty or discharge such function ; |
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" disputed matter " includes any industrial dispute ; " eligible employee" means any employee other than a casual employee or a temporary employee or an employee employed in a managerial or supervisory capacity ; " employer " means any person who employs or on whose behalf any other person employs any employee and includes a body of employers (whether such body is corporate or unincorporate) and any person who on behalf of any other person employs any employee ; " governing body" used with reference to a specified undertaking means the board of directors of that undertaking or other body of persons, by whatever name called, having control over the management and administration of that undertaking ; " industrial dispute " means any dispute or difference between an employer and an employee or between employers and employees connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment or with conditions of labour or the termination of employment or the reinstatement in employment of any person ; " public corporation" means any corporation, board or other body which was or is established under any written law, other than the Companies Ordinance, with funds or capital wholly or partly provided by the Government by way of grant, loan or otherwise ; " salary " means remuneration earned by an employee in accordance with the terms and conditions of his employment and includes any cost of living allowance or special living allowance but does not include any bonus or payment in respect of overtime ; " State undertaking " means any public corporation or any business undertaking vested in the Government under any written law or any branch or section of such corporation or business undertaking; " temporary employee" means any employee employed temporarily by an employer to perform work of a temporary nature on not more than one hundred and eighty days in any year in the aggregate. |
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts