Employers and Servants.
CHAPTER 57.
EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
To amend the law relating to employers and servants.
[CAP. 57
[19th December, 1902.]
Originally 45 of 1902. Fraser 45 of 1902.
24 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Employers and Servants Ordinance.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance-
"contract of service" means any contract, whether in writing or verbal, to work personally for any period of time; "employer" includes any person, firm, corporation or company who, or which, enters into any contract of service with any servant as next hereinafter defined, and the agent of every such person, firm, corporation or company;
Interpretation.
Schedule.
"servant" includes every person above the age of sixteen years, being a mechanic, artificer or other handicraftsman, engine-driver or fireman, driver or attendant of any mechanically propelled vehicle, boatman, any person engaged for service on board any launch, motor boat, cargo boat, fishing junk or trading junk, shop or office assistant, messenger, lift attendant, godownkeeper, tallyman, watchman, labourer, servant in husbandry or manufacture, coachman, groom or other stable servant, gardener or other garden servant, bearer of private chair, puller or propeller of private jinriksha, water carrier, domestic menial or other house servant whether ordinarily employed in or out of doors, who enters into a contract of service with an employer; “wages” includes basic cash wages, all cash allowances or payments which are of a constant character and, where such is certain or ascertainable the cash value of any food, fuel or quarters supplied to the servant by the employer, but shall not include remuneration for intermittent overtime, nor casual payments of a non-recurrent nature, nor any ex gratia payment whether given by the employer or any other person, nor the value of any travelling allowances, nor the value of any travelling concession or contribution paid by the employer towards any pension or provident fund, nor
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Employers and Servants.
CHAPTER 57.
EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
To amend the law relating to employers and servants.
[CAP. 57
[19th December, 1902.]
Originally 45 of 1902. Fraser 45 of 1902.
24 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Employers and Short title. Servants Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance-
"contract of service" means any contract, whether in writing
or verbal, to work personally for any period of time; "employer" includes any person, firm, corporation or com- pany who, or which, enters into any contract of service with any servant as next hereinafter defined, and the agent of every such person, firm, corporation or com- pany;
Interpretation.
Schedule.
"servant" includes every person above the age of sixteen years, being a mechanic, artificer or other handicrafts- man, engine-driver or fireman, driver or attendant of 24 of 1950. any mechanically propelled vehicle, boatman, any person engaged for service on board any launch, motor boat, cargo boat, fishing junk or trading junk, shop or office assistant, messenger, lift attendant, godown- keeper, tallyman, watchman, labourer, servant in husbandry or manufacture, coachman, groom or other stable servant, gardener or other garden servant, bearer of private chair, puller or propeller of private jinriksha, water carrier, domestic menial or other house servant whether ordinarily employed in or out of doors, who enters into a contract of service with an employer; “wages” includes basic cash wages, all cash allowances or 24 of 1950.
payments which are of a constant character and, where such is certain or ascertainable the cash value of any food, fuel or quarters supplied to the servant by the employer, but shall not include remuneration for intermittent overtime, nor casual payments of a non-recurrent nature, nor any ex gratia payment whether given by the employer or any other person, nor the value of any travelling allowances, nor the value of any travelling concession or contribution paid by the employer towards any pension or provident fund, nor
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