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, an union or federation of such 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) “committee” means the parity committee, constituted as a result of a decree;
(d) “collective agreement” or “agreement” means any arrangement respecting working conditions entered into between persons acting for one or more associations of employees, and an employer or several employers or persons acting for an association or several associations of employers;
(e) “decree” means an order-in-council making obligatory, amending, extending or repealing any collective agreement;
(f) “employer” includes any individual, partnership, firm or corporation who or which has work done by an employee;
(g) “professional employer” means an employer who habitually has employees in his employ for any kind of work which is the object of a decree;
(h) “Minister” means the Minister of Labour, Manpower and Income Security of Québec;
(i) “wage” means the remuneration in currency, and the compensation or benefits of a pecuniary value as determined in the decree for the labour governed by it. The word does not include family allowances;
(j) “employee” means any apprentice, unskilled labourer or workman, skilled workman, journeyman, artisan, clerk or employee, working individually or in a crew or in partnership;
(k) “permanent employee” means the employee entrusted solely with the maintenance of a church, chapel, cemetery, seminary, college, convent, monastery, hospital centre, orphanage, asylum, foundling hospital, hotel, lodging-house, office building, immoveables or collection of buildings used as a manufacturing or industrial establishment, if the hiring of the work of such employee for such particular immovable is made for a period of at least six months;
(l) “construction” includes demolition.