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"speaker_name": "Dr. Kulundu",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Labour and Human Resource Development",
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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 2 of the Bill be amended- (a) in the definition of the term \"authorised officer\" by deleting the words \"appointed under the Labour Institutions Act\"; (b)in the definition of the term \"Board\" by deleting the words \"established by Section 5 of the Labour Institutions Act\"; (c)by deleting the definition of the term \"collective agreement\" and substituting therefor the following new definition- \"collective agreement\" means a registered agreement concerning any terms and conditions of employment made in writing between a trade union and an employer, group of employers or employers organisation\"; (d)in the definition of the term \"dependent\" by inserting the words \"or relative\" immediately after the word \"family\" appearing in the second line; (e)in the definition of the term \"Director\" by deleting the words \"under the Labour Institutions Act\"; (f)by deleting the definition of the term \"disability\" and substituting therefor the following new definition- \"disability\" means a physical, sensory, mental or other impairment, including any visual, hearing, learning or physical incapability, which impacts adversely on a person's social and economic participation\", (g)by deleting the definition of the term \"employee\" and substituting therefor the following new definition- \"employee\" means a person employed for wages or a salary and includes an apprentice and 4494 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 16, 2007 indentured lecturer\"; (h)by deleting the definition of the term \"employer\" and substituting therefor the following new definition- \"employer\" means any person, public body, firm, corporation or company who or which has entered into a contract of service to employ any individual and includes the agent, foreman, manager or factor of such person, public body, firm, corporation or company\"; (i)in the definition of the term \"industrial undertaking\" by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph- (b) a factory or a place where raw materials are manufactured, processed or packaged; (j)in the definition of the term \"labour inspector' by deleting the words \"under the Labour Institutions Act\"; (k)by deleting the definition of the term \"labour officer\" and substituting therefor the following new definition- \"labour officer\" means a person appointed as the Commissioner of labour, a Senior Deputy Commissioner of labour, a Deputy Commissioner of Labour, an Assistant Commissioner of labour, a Chief Industrial Relations Officer, a Deputy Chief Industrial Relations Officer, a Senior Labour Officer, an Industrial Relations Officer or a Labour Officer; (l)by deleting the definition of the term \"National Labour Court\"; (m)in the definition of the term \"organisation\" by deleting the words \"registered under the Labour Relations Act\"; (n)by deleting the definition of the term \"redundancy\" and substituting therefor the following new definition- \"redundancy\" means the loss of employment, occupation, job or career by involuntary means through no fault of an employee, involving termination of employment at the initiative of the employer, where the services of an employee are superfluous and the practices commonly known as the abolition of office, job or occupation and loss of employment; (o)in the definition of the term \"Registrar\" by deleting the words \"appointed under the Labour Institutions Act\"; (p)by deleting the definition of the term \"strike\" and substituting therefor the following new definition- \"strike\" means the cassation of work by employees acting in combination, or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of employees to continue to work, for the purpose of compelling their employer or an employers' organisation of which their employer is a member, to accede to any demand in respect of a trade dispute; (q)by deleting the definition of the term \"subordinate labour court\"; (r)by deleting the definition of the term \"trade union\" and inserting therefor the following new definition- \"trade union\" means an association of employees whose principal purpose is to regulate relations between employees and employers and includes an employer's organisation."
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