““assessor” means a member of the Labour Court appointed in terms of section eight-four; “casual work" means work for which an employee is engaged by an employer for not more than a total of six weeks in any four tive months; consecu- 20 H.B. 19, 2001 1 “check-off scheme” means a scheme whereby an employer, with the con-sent of the employee concerned, deducts union dues directly from the remuneration of his employees and remits such dues to the trade union representing them; 5 “designated agent” means a person appointed to be a designated agent of an employment council in terms of section sixty-three; 10 “disciplined force” means -(a) a military, air or naval force; (b) a police force; (c) a prison service; (d) a person employed in the President’s office on security duties; “employment code” means an employment code of conduct registered in terms of section one hundred and one; 15 “equal remuneration”, for the purposes of subsection (3a) of section five, means rates of remuneration that have been established without differentiation on the basis of gender; “HIV/AIDS status”, in relation to any individual, means the presence or absence in that individual of the human immuno-deficiency virus; 20 “Labour Court” means the Labour Court established by section eightyfour; “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made in terms of section one hundred and twenty-seven; 25 30 “retrench”, in relation to an employee, means terminate the employee’s employment for the purpose of reducing expenditure or costs, adapt-ing to technological change, reorganising the undertaking in which the employee is employed, or for similar reasons; “Retrenchment Board” means the board established by regulations made in terms of section seventeen to consider matters related to the retrenchment of employees referred to it in terms of section twelve C; “seasonal work” means work that is, owing to the nature of the industry, performed only at certain times of the year; “technical or vocational education” means education provided at a tech-