s.2Interpretation
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Section 2Part 1 — PRELIMINARY

Interpretation

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In this Law —
means an agent who is remunerated by commission;
means any agreement, understanding or arrangement whatever, whether written or oral, express or implied, whereby it is agreed between an employee and an employer that the employee will be employed under a contract of service;
means a person who performs work for another person pursuant to a contract between the employer of the first-mentioned person and that other person;
means a person, whether or not employed under a contract of employment, who performs work or service for another person for compensation or reward on such terms and conditions that the first-mentioned person is, in relation to that other person, in a position of economic dependence on, and under an obligation to perform duties for, that other person more as an employee than an independent contractor;
means a body of persons administering an educational institution;
means a school, college, university or other institution at which education or training is provided;
means any individual who enters into or works under or stands ready to enter into or work under a contract of employment with an employer whether the contract be oral or written, express or implied; and the term includes a person whose services have been interrupted by a suspension of work during a period of leave or temporary lay-off;
means any person who has entered into or stands ready to enter into a contract of employment with an employee, and includes any agent, representative or manager of such person who is placed in authority over an employee;
includes —
part-time employment, temporary employment and employment under a contract of service or of apprenticeship;
employment under a contract for services; and
engagement as a commission agent, carried on in the Islands.
means any person who, whether for payment or not, assists persons find employment or assists employers to find employees;
means a rate or a scale of remuneration that has been established without differentiation based on the ground of sex, marital status or pregnancy;
means the cultural, economic, social, and political characteristics, roles and opportunities through which women and men are socially constructed and valued;
has the meaning assigned to that expression by section 5;
includes persons who plan, organize, control, co-ordinate or direct the business of an employer or a part of such business;
means the status or condition of being —
single;
married;
married but living separately and apart from one's spouse;
divorced; or
widowed, and includes the status of a man and a woman who, although not married to each other, are living with each other in the same household as husband and wife;
means a member of the Tribunal appointed under section 26;
means Minister responsible for gender affairs;
means any money or other thing, whether called salary, wage, allowance or by any other name, paid or contracted to be paid, delivered or given as recompense, reward or compensation for any work or labour done or to be done, whether within a certain time or to a certain amount, or for a time or an amount uncertain;
means the Gender Equality Tribunal established under section 22; and
means work equal in value in terms of the demands it makes in relation to such matters as skill levels, duties, physical and mental effort, responsibility and conditions of work.

Defined Terms

commission agentcontract of employmentcontract workerdependent contractoreducational authorityeducational institutionemployeeemployeremploymentemployment agencyequal remunerationgendergenuine occupational qualificationmanagerial employeemarital statusmemberMinisterremunerationTribunalwork of equal value

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