Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsCap. 177
| 18. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-" employee" means a person employed by any employer under a contract, whether oral, written, express or implied, to perform any work in any trade, industry, business or occupation or in any prescribed establishment or institution, whether or not such establishment or institution carries on any trade, industry, business or occupation, but does not include a domestic servant or an employer's personal chauffeur;" employer " means any person who on his own behalf employs, or on whose behalf any other person employs, any employee, and includes any person who on behalf of any other person employs any employee;" prescribed " means prescribed by regulation made under this Act; and" public holidays " means days appointed to be public holidays by or under the Holidays Ordinance. |