[Rev. 2012]
CAP. 226
Employment
(b)
not for the purpose of finally terminating employment;
“migrant worker” means a person who migrates to Kenya with a view to
being employed by an employer and includes any person regularly admitted
as a migrant worker;
“mine” includes an undertaking, whether public or private, for the
extraction of a substance from the surface, or from under the surface of the
earth;
“Minister” means the Minister for the time being responsible for labour
matters;
“organisation” includes employees’ trade unions and employers’
organisations;
“parties” means the parties to a contract of service;
“piece work” means any work the pay for which is ascertained by the
amount of work performed irrespective of the time occupied in its
performance;
“probationary contract” means a contract of employment, which is of not
more than twelve months duration or part thereof, is in writing and expressly
states that it is for a probationary period;
“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 abolition of
office, job or occupation and loss of employment;
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Trade Unions;
“remuneration” means the total value of all payments in money or in kind,
made or owing to an employee arising from the employment of that employee;
“strike” means the cessation 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’ organization of which their employer is a member, to accede
to any demand in respect of a trade dispute;
“task” means such amount of work as can, in the opinion of an authorised
officer, be performed by an employee in an ordinary working day;
“trade union” means an association of employees whose principal
purpose is to regulate relations between employees and employers and
includes an employers’ organisation;
“woman” means a female of the age of eighteen years or above;
“worst form of child labour” with respect to juveniles, means their
employment, engagement or usage in any activity comprising of—
(a)
all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale
and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or
compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict;
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