LABOUR ACT [Chapter 28:01] (as amended) (b) the judicial manager of such person appointed in terms of the Companies Act [Chapter 24:03]; (c) the liquidator or trustee of the insolvent estate of such person, if authorised to carry on the business of such person by— (i) the creditors; or (ii) in the absence of any instructions given by the creditors, the Master of the High Court; (d) the executor of the deceased estate of such person, if authorised to carry on the business of such person by the Master of the High Court; (e) the curator of such person who is a patient as defined in the Mental Health Act [Chapter 15:12] (No. 15 of 1996), if authorised to carry on the business of such person in terms of section 88 of that Act; “employers organization” means any association or organization formed to represent or advance the interests of any employers or groups thereof in respect of matters relating to employment; “employment agency” means any business carried on for gain or reward in which employment of any nature whatsoever is either procured for persons seeking work or is offered to such persons on behalf of third parties, or in which advice in regard to such procurement or offering of employment is given to such persons or third parties, as the case may be; “employment code” means an employment code of conduct registered in terms of section one hundred and one; “employment council” means an employment council formed in terms of section fifty-six or fiftyseven; “employment officer” means an officer designated as such in terms of his employment in the Public Service; “equal remuneration”, for the purposes of subsection (2a) of section five, means rates of remuneration that have been established without differentiation on the basis of gender; “federation” means a group of trade unions or employers organizations, each of which is representative of a single undertaking or industry; “fixed date” means the 15th December, 1985; “HIV/AIDS status”, in relation to any individual, means the presence or otherwise in that individual of the human immuno-deficiency virus; “Labour Court” means the Labour Court established by section eighty-four; “labour officer” means a labour officer referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and twenty-one; “managerial employee” means an employee whose contract of employment requires or permits him to hire, transfer, promote, suspend, lay off, dismiss, reward, discipline or adjudge the grievances of other employees; “maximum wage notice” means a notice issued in terms of section twenty-two; Re-issue -7- “member”, in relation to the Labour Court, means a President of the Labour Court or any assessor; “membership fees”, in relation to a trade union or employers organization, means those fees chargeable by the trade union or employers organization concerned in respect of membership or renewal thereof; “minimum wage notice” means a notice issued in terms of section twenty; “Minister”, in relation to— (a) every provision of this Act except for Part XI, means the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act except for Part XI; (b) Part XI, means the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of Part XI; “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made in terms of section one hundred and twentyseven; “region” means any area within Zimbabwe declared by the Minister, by statutory instrument, to be a region for the purposes of this Act; “Registrar” means the Registrar of Labour referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and twenty-one, and includes an Assistant Registrar referred to in that paragraph; “relevant particulars” means such information and other particulars as are within the interests of a workers committee, trade union, employers organization or federation, as the case may be, and which relate to the issue that is legitimately before the organization requesting such information and other particulars; “retrench”, in relation to an employee, means terminate the employee’s employment for the purpose of reducing expenditure or costs, adapting to technological change, reorganising the undertaking in which the employee is employed, or for similar reasons, and includes the termination of employment on account of the closure of the enterprise in which the employee is employed; “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 technical or vocational institution; “technical or vocational institution” means an institution registered as such in terms of the law relating to technical or vocational education; “trade union” means any association or organization formed to represent or advance the interests of any employees or class thereof in respect of their employment; 1st May 2003-