2. Worker: Any male or female working, for wage of any kind, in the service or under the management or control of an employer, albeit out of his sight. This term applies also to labourers and employees who are in an employer’s service and are governed by the provisions of this Law.
3. Firm: Any economic, technical, industrial or commercial unit where personnel are employed and whose objective is to produce or market commodities or to provide services of any kind.
4. Employment Contract: Any agreement, for a definite or indefinite term, concluded between an employer and an employee, whereby the latter undertakes to work in the employer's service and under his management and control, in return for a certain wage that the employer undertakes to pay.
5. Work: Any human effort- intellectual, technical or physical- exerted in return for wage, irrespective of whether such work is permanent or temporary;
6. Temporary Work: An assignment that has to be carried out within a specified period of time.
7. Agricultural Work: Work involving ploughing, cultivation, harvesting, or breeding of cattle, poultry, silkworms, bees and the like.
8. Continuous Service: An uninterrupted service with the same employer or his legal successor, from the service commencement date.
9. Wage: Any consideration, in cash or in kind, given to a worker, in return for his service under an employment contract, whether on yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, piece meal, output or commission basis. The wage shall include the cost of living allowance. It shall also include any grant given to a worker as a reward for his honesty or efficiency, provided such amounts are stipulated in the employment contract or in the firm’s internal regulations or are being so customarily granted that the firm workers regard them as part of their wage and not as donations.
10. Basic Wage: The wage specified in a valid employment contract, exclusive of any allowances whatsoever.
11. Occupational Injury: Any of the work-related diseases listed in the schedule attached hereto or any other injury sustained by a worker during and by reason of carrying out his duties. Any accident sustained by a worker on his way to or back from work shall be considered an occupational injury, provided that the journey to and from work is made without any break, lingering or diversion from the normal route.
12. Labour Department: The branches of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs that are in charge of labour affairs in the emirates of the Federation.
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