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lay worker

lay worker A person who works in a religious organization but is not a member of the formal clergy. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


temporary worker

temporary worker A foreign worker who will work in the United States for a limited period of time. Some visas classes for temporary workers are H, L, O, P, Q and R. If you are seeking to come to the U.S. for employment as a temporary worker in the U.S. (H, L, O, P, and Q visas), your prospective employer must file a petition with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS. This petition must be approved by USCIS before you can apply for a visa. Select temporary workers to visit the USCIS website and learn more. Select temporary worker visas to go to the Department of State website to learn more, and review information about NAFTA workers (TN visa) and treaty traders/investors (E visas). Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


workers' compensation

workers' compensation 1 : compensation for injury to an employee arising out of and in the course of employment that is paid to the worker or dependents by an employer whose strict liability for such compensation is established by statute NOTE: Where established by statute, workers' compensation is generally the exclusive remedy for injuries arising from employment, with some exceptions. Workers' compensation statutes commonly include explicit exclusions for injury caused intentionally, by willful misconduct, and by voluntary intoxication from alcohol or illegal drugs. 2 : workers' compensation insurance ...


Worker

Worker, means a person employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship. [Insecticides Act., 1968 (46 of 1968), s. 3 (r)]It means a person employed, directly or by or through any agency (including a contractor) with or without the knowledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, in any manufacturing process, or in cleaning any part of the machinery or premises used for a manufacturing process, or in any other kind of work incidental to, or connected with, the manufacturing process, or the subject o the manufacturing process but does not include any member of the armed forces of the Union. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (l)]Means a worker in any establishment or employ-ment in respect of which this Act has come into force. [Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), s. 2 (i)]Means any person who is employed for wages in any kind of work and who gets his wages directly from the employer but shall not include an apprentice referred to in clause (aa). [A...


Dock worker

Dock worker, means a person employed or to be employed directly or by or through any agency (including a contractor) with or without know-ledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, on dock work. [Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986 (54 of 1986), s. 2 (e)]It means a person employed or to be employed in, or in the vicinity of, any port on work in connection with the loading, unloading, movement or storage of cargoes, or work in connection with the preparation of ships or other vessels for the receipt or discharge of cargoes or leaving port. [Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948, s. 2 (b)]...


Lay off

Lay off, s. 2(kkk) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 defines a lay off. Lay-off may be due to shortage of coal or shortage of power or shortage of raw materials or accumulation of stocks or break-down of machinery or any other reason, Management of Kairbetta Estate v. Rajamanickam, AIR 1960 SC 893: (1960) 3 SCR 371.It means the failure, refusal or inability of employer on account of contingencies mentioned in clause (kkk) of the Industrial Disputes Act, s. 2 to give employment to a workman whose name is borne on the muster rolls of his industrial establishment. It is merely a fact of temporary unemployment of the workman in the work of the industrial establishment. The principles governing the case of lay-off are very akin to those applicable to a suspension case. When lay-off is found justified workmen may not be awarded any wages or compensation, Workmen of M/s. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co. of India (P) Ltd. v. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co., AIR 1976 SC 1775: (1976) 3 SCC 819: (1976) 3 S...


Lay impropriators

Lay impropriators, lay persons to whose use ecclesiastical benefices have been annexed. At the dissolution of the monasteries by stat. 27 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 31 Hen. 8, c. 13, the appropriations of the several parsonages which belonged to them were given to the king. The same had been done in former reigns when the alien priories were dissolved and given to the Crown. From these two roots have sprung all the lay impropriations or secular parsonages, they having been afterwards granted out from time to time by the Crown to laymen. See APPROPRIATION AND LAY RECTOR....


Lay Rector

Lay Rector. A person holding by title under lay impropriation (see that title). As to the lay rector's liability to repair, see Morley v. Leacroft, 1896, P. 92, and Stuart v. Haughley Parish Church Council, 104 LJ Ch 314, with the rights to contribution from other lay impropriators. As to any right to occupy a seat in the chancel of a church, see Stileman-Gibbard v. Wilkinson, (1897) 1 QB 749....


longshore and harbor workers' compensation act

longshore and harbor workers' compensation act The federal act designed to provide workers' compensation benefits to employees, other than seamen, who work in maritime employment upon the navigable waters of the United States. (33 U.S.C.A. Sec. 901) Source: FindLaw ...


special agricultural worker

special agricultural worker Farm workers in perishable products who worked for a specified period of time and were able to adjust status to lawful permanent resident according to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


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