S-1 - Minimum Wage Act

Section 1 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

1. In this act and in its application, unless the context requires otherwise, the following words and expressions have the meaning hereinafter given to them:

(a)  “agricultural exploitation” means: a farm developed by the farmer himself or through employees;

(b)  “association” includes: a professional syndicate, a union or federation of syndicates, a group of employees or employers, bonafide, having as object the study, defence and development of the economic, social and moral interests of its members, with respect for law and authority;

(c)  “Commission” means: the Commission du salaire minimum hereinafter created;

(d)  “employer” includes: any individual, partnership, firm or corporation who or which has work done by an employee;

(e)  “professional employer” means: an employer who habitually has one or more employees in his employ for any kind of work which is the object of an ordinance;

(f)  “Minister” means: the Minister of Labour and Manpower of Québec;

(g)  “ordinance” means an ordinance of the Commission;

(h)  “wage” means the remuneration in currency and the compensation or benefit of a pecuniary value due for the labour or services of an employee;

(i)  “employee” means any person, workman, functionary, clerk or employee whatever, entitled to a wage for work done for an employer;

(j)  “construction” includes demolition.

R. S. 1964, c. 144, s. 1; 1968, c. 43, s. 17; 1977, c. 5, s. 14.