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voluntary basis or otherwise, whether the terms <strong>of</strong><br />

employment are express or implied and <strong>in</strong>cludes a<br />

domestic worker, a co-worker, a contract worker,<br />

probationer, tra<strong>in</strong>ee, apprentice or by any other name<br />

called;<br />

(g) “employer” means:-<br />

(i) <strong>in</strong> relation to any department, organisation,<br />

undertak<strong>in</strong>g, establishment, enterprise,<br />

<strong>in</strong>stitution, <strong>of</strong>fice, branch or unit <strong>of</strong> the<br />

appropriate Government or a local authority, the<br />

head <strong>of</strong> that department, organisation,<br />

undertak<strong>in</strong>g, establishment, enterprise,<br />

<strong>in</strong>stitution, <strong>of</strong>fice, branch or unit or such other<br />

<strong>of</strong>ficer as the appropriate Government or the<br />

local authority, as the case may be, may by an<br />

order specify <strong>in</strong> this behalf;<br />

(ii) <strong>in</strong> any workplace not covered under<br />

clause (i), any person responsible for the<br />

management, supervision and control <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong><br />

the workplace;<br />

(h) “Local Committee” means the Local Compla<strong>in</strong>ts<br />

Committee constituted under section 6;<br />

(i) “member” means a member <strong>of</strong> the Committee or<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Local Committee, as the case may be;<br />

(j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made<br />

under this Act;<br />

(k) “respondent” means a person <strong>aga<strong>in</strong>st</strong> whom a<br />

compla<strong>in</strong>t has been made under section 7;<br />

(l) “<strong>Work</strong>place” <strong>in</strong>cludes:-<br />

(i) any department, organisation, undertak<strong>in</strong>g,<br />

establishment, enterprise, <strong>in</strong>stitution, <strong>of</strong>fice,<br />

branch or unit which is established, owned,<br />

controlled or wholly or substantially f<strong>in</strong>anced by<br />

funds provided directly or <strong>in</strong>directly by the<br />

appropriate Government or the local authority or<br />

a Government company or a corporation or a cooperative<br />

society;<br />

Revised Draft Bill 28 th January 2010

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