Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "badli worker" means a worker who is appointed in the place of permanent worker who is temporarily absent; b. "casual worker" means a worker whose employment is of a casual nature; c. "employer" means, in relation to any establishment, factory, plantation, motor transport undertaking or other undertaking, - (i) belonging to, or under the control of any State Government, a person or authority appointed by that Government for the supervision and control of workers, or, where no person or authority has been so appointed, the head of the Ministry or the Department concerned; (ii) belonging to, or under the control of, any local authority, the person appointed by such authority for the supervision and control of workers, or, where no person has been so appointed, the chief executive officer of the local authority; (iii) in any other case, the person who or the authority which has the ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment, factory, plantation or undertaking, and where the said affairs are entrusted to any other person, whether called manager, managing director or by any other name, such person; d. "factory" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948); e. "Inspector" means an inspector appointed under section 6; f. "motor transport undertaking" has the meaning assigned to that expression in clause (g) of section 2 of the Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (Central Act 27 of 1961); g. "permanent worker" means a worker who is employed on a permanent basis; h. "plantation" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (f) of section 2 of the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (Central Act 69 of 1951); i. "State" means the State of Kerala; j. "temporary worker" means a worker who has been engaged for work which is of an essentially temporary nature likely to be finished within a limited period; k. "wages" has the meaning assigned to that term in clause (vi) of section 2 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (Central Act 4 of 1936);. (1) "worker" means any person who is employed for hire or reward to do any work, skilled or unskilled, manual or clerical, in any establishment or employment to which this Act applies and includes an out worker to whom any articles or materials are given out by another person to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, furnished, prepared, adopted or otherwise processed.