NO. 137 OF 1993: BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AMENDMENT ACT, 1993
STATE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
No. 1856. 8 October 1993
NO. 137 OF 1993: BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AMENDME
NT ACT, 1993
GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
Words in bold type indicate omissions from existing enactments.
Words in italics indicate insertions in existing enactments.
ACT
To amend the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1983, so as to insert or
amend certain definitions; and to institute basic conditions of employment
for domestics and to provide for matters connected therewith.
(English text signed by the Acting State Presiden
t.)
(Assented to 24 September 1993.)
Amendment of section 1 of Act 3 of 1983, as amended
by section 1 of Act 27 of 19 and section 1 of Act 104 of 1992
1. Section 1 of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1983 (hereinafter
referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended
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(a) by the substitution in subsection (1) for the definition of "casual
employee" of the following definition:
" 'casual employee' means a day worker who is employed by the
same employer on not more than three days in any week, but does
not include a regular day worker;";
(b) by the insertion in subsection (1) after the definition of "Director
General" of the following definitions:
" 'domestic worker' means an employee charged wholly or mainly
with the performance of domestic work on dwelling premises, and
includes-
(a) a gardener;
(b) a person employed by a household as driver of a motor vehicle
and
(c) a person who takes care of children, the aged, the sick, the frail
and the disabled,
but does not include a