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Employer

Employer, means (i) a company; (ii) a firm; (iii) an association of persons or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, but excluding any fund or trust or institution eligible for exemption under clause (23C) of section 10 or registered under section 12AA; (iv) a local authority; and (v) every artificial judicial person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)]Employer, means:A person who controls and direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer, and(b) in relation to other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money, supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs of the establi...


Employment

Employment, the word 'employment' is not a word with a single fixed meaning but it has many connotations. On the one side it may bear the narrow meaning of relationship of employer and employee and on the other, it may mean in its widest connotation any engagement or any work in which one is engaged. If the former be the sense in which the word 'employment' is used in clause (d) of Article 319, the office of Governor would certainly not be an employment, because the Governor of a State is not an employee or servant of anyone, Hargovind Pant v. Dr. Raghukul Tilak, (1979) 3 SCC 458: (1979) 3 SCR 972.The word 'employment' must be construed as emp-loyment in the regular course of business of the establishment. Such employment obviously would not include employment of a few persons for a short period on account of some passing necessity or some temporary emergency beyond the control of the company, P.F. Inspector v. T.S. Hariharan, AIR 1971 SC 1519 (1524): (1971) 2 SCC 68.The concept of emp...


Common employment

Common employment. The general rule that a master is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his servant has the exception that where the person injured is the fellow-servant of and engaged in common employment with the person whose negligence causes the injury, the master is not liable in an action at Common law. The principle upon which the exception rests is that 'a servant who engages for the performance of services for compensation does as an implied part of the contract take upon himself, as between himself and his master, the natural risks and perils incident to the performance of such services; the presumption of law being that the compensation was adjusted accordingly, or, in other words, that these risks are considered in the wages' [per Balckburn, J., Morgan v. Vale of Neath R. Co., (1864) 5 B&S 578]. For review of cases, see Bray, J., in Cribb v. Kynoch, Ltd., (1907) 2 KB 548. The doctrine applies in spite of difference in rank or grade between the two servants, e.g.,...


Employed

Employed, The word 'employed' in the definition of Motor Transport worker is not used in the sense of using the services of a person but rather in the sense of keeping a person in one's service, Ghatge and Patil Concerns' Employees Union v. Ghatge and Patel Transport (P) Ltd., AIR 1968 SC 503 (506): (1968) 1 SCR 300.The expression 'employed' has at least two known connotations but as used in the definition, the context would indicate that it is used in the sense of a relationship brought about by express or implied contract of service in which the employee renders service for which he is engaged by the employer and the latter agrees to pay him in cash or kind as agreed between them or statutorily prescribed. It discloses a relationship of command and obedience. The essential condition of a person being a workman within the terms of the definition is that he should be employed to do the work in that industry and that there should be, in other words, an employment of his by the employer ...


Employed in an establishment

Employed in an establishment, An employee is defined in S. 2(f) of the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 to mean any person employed directly or through any agency in any establishment and include any labour who is given raw materials by an employer or a contractor at home referred to as the home-worker and any persons employed by an employer or a contractor but working at the premises with the employer or contractor. Therefore, the words 'employed in an establishment' in s. 26 of the Act are referable to home-workers as well, Mangalore Ganesh Beedi Works v. Union of India, (1974) 4 SCC 43: AIR 1974 SC 1832: (1974) 3 SCR 221....


Matters relating to employment

Matters relating to employment, It is now well settled that the expression 'matters relating to employment' used in Article 16(1) is not confined to initial matters prior to the act of employment, but comprehends all matters in relation to employment both prior, and subsequent, to the employment which are incidental to the employment and from part of the terms and conditions of such employment, such as, provisions as to salary, increments, leave, gratuity, pension, age of superannuation, promotion and even termination of employment. It is further well established that Articles 14, 15(1) and 16(1) from part of the same constitutional code of guarantees and supplement each other. If any authority is needed for the above enunciation, reference may be made to the observations made by Gajendragadkar, J., as he then was, in General Manager, Southern Railway v. Rangachari. The Manager, Government Branch Press v. D.B.Belliappa, AIR 1979 SC 429: (1979) 1 SCC 477: (1979) 2 SCR 458....


Arising out of his employment

Arising out of his employment, Literal construction of the phrase 'arising out of his employment conveys the idea that there must be some sort of connection between the employment and the injury caused to a workman due to the accident. But it is wide enough to cover the case where there may not necessarily be a direct connection of the workman. There may be circumstances tending to show that the workman received personal injury due to the accident that arose during the course of or out of his employment. It would not mean that personal injury only must have resulted from the mere nature of the employment, nor it be limited to cases where the personal injury is referable to duties which the employee has to discharge. The phrase 'arising out of the employment' applies to employment as such-to its nature, its conditions, by reason of which its workman is brought within the zone of danger and resultant injury, disease or death, Regional Director, ESI Corpn v. Francis De Costa, 1993 Supp (4...


Employer and contractor

Employer and contractor, the employer is one who employs, i.e., one who engages the services of other persons. The employee is one who works for another for hire. The employment is the contract of service between the employer and the employee where under the employee agrees to serve the employer subject to his control and supervision. A 'contractor' is a person who, in the pursuit of an independent business, undertakes to do specific jobs of work for other persons, without submitting himself to their control in respect to the details to the work'. There is a clear-cut distinction between a contractor and a workman. The identifying mark of the latter is that he should be under the control and supervision of the employer in respect of the details of the work, Chintaman Rao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1958 SC 388 (391). [Industrial Disputes Act, (14 of 1947), s. 2(s)]...


Person employed

Person employed, 'person employed' means - (a) in the case of a factory or an industrial undertaking, a member of the clerical staff employed in such factory or undertaking; (b) in the case of a commercial establishment other than a clerical department of a factory or an industrial undertak-ing, a person wholly or principally employed in connection with the business of the establishment, and includes a peon, T. Devadasan v. Gordon Woodroffe and Co. (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 1479: (1972) 3 SCC 700: (1973) 1 SCR 213. [T.N. Shops and Establishment Act, 1947, s. 2 (12) (iii)](ii) According to the definition in s. 2(14) of the Andhra Pradesh (Telengana Area) Shops and Establishments Act, 1951 even if a person is not wholly employed, if he is principally employed in connection with the business of the shop, he will be a 'person employed' within the meaning of the sub-section, Silver Jubilee Tailoring House v. Chief Inspector of Shops and Establishments, AIR 1974 SC 37 (44, 45): (1974) 3 SCC 498:...


Local Employment Exchange

Local Employment Exchange, means--(a) in the whole of India except the Union territory of Chandigarh that Employment Exchange (other than the Central Employment Exchange) notified in the Official Gazette by the State Government or the Administration of the Union territory as having jurisdiction over the area in which the establishments concerned is situated or over specified classes or categories of establishments or vacancies; and(b) in the Union territory of Chandigarh that Employment Exchange established either by the Union territory Administration of Chandigarh or by the State Government of Punjab or Haryana notified in the States respective Official Gazette as having jurisdiction over specified clauses or categories of establishments, or vacancies, provided that the employment exchanges established by the State Government of Punjab or Haryana shall not have jurisdiction over--(i) the public sector offices/establishments other than those belonging to the respective States; and(ii) ...


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