law: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  2.
  
  Definitions
  In
  
  this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context -
  (i ) "employed person" includes the legal
  
  representative of a deceased employed person;
  ( ia ) "employer" includes the legal
  
  representative of a deceased employer;
  ( ib ) "factory" means a factory as
  
  defined in clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act 1948 (63 of 1948) and
  
  includes any place to which the provisions of that Act have been applied under
  
  sub-section (1) of section 85 thereof;
  (ii)
  
  "industrial or other establishment" means any -
  (a) tramway service or motor transport service engaged in carrying
  
  passengers or goods or both by road for hire or reward;
  ( aa ) air transport
  
  service other than such service belonging to or exclusively employed in the
  
  military naval or air forces of the Union or the Civil Aviation
  
  Department of the Government of India;
  (b) dock wharf or jetty;
  (c) inland vessel mechanically
  
  propelled;
  (d) mine quarry or oil-field;
  (e) plantation;
  (f) workshop or other establishment in which articles are produced adapted
  
  or manufactured with a view to their use transport or sale;
  (g) establishment in which any work relating to the construction
  
  development or maintenance of buildings roads bridges or canals or relating to
  
  operations connected with navigation irrigation or to the supply of water or
  
  relating to the generation transmission and distribution of electricity or any
  
  other form of power is being carried on;
  (h) any other establishment or class of establishments which the Central
  
  Government or a State Government may having regard to the nature thereof the
  
  need for protection of persons employed therein and other relevant
  
  circumstances specify by notification in the Official Gazette.
  (iia ) "mine" has the meaning assigned to it in
  
  clause (j) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Mines Act 1952 (35 of 1952);
  (iii)
  
  "plantation" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (f) of section
  
  2 of the Plantations Labour Act 1951 (69 of 1951);
  (iv)
  
  "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  (v)
  
  "railway administration" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (6)
  
  of section 3 of the Indian Railways Act 1890 (9 of 1890); and
  (vi)
  
  "wages" means all remuneration (whether by way of salary allowances
  
  or otherwise) expressed in terms of money or capable of being so expressed
  
  which would if the terms of employment express or implied were fulfilled by
  
  payable to a person employed in respect of his employment or of work done in
  
  such employment and includes -
  (a) any remuneration payable under any award or settlement between the
  
  parties or order of a court;
  (b) any remuneration to which the person employed is entitled in respect
  
  of overtime work or holidays or any leave period;
  (c) any additional remuneration payable under the terms of employment (whether
  
  called a bonus or by any other name);
  (d) any sum which by reason of the termination of employment of the
  
  person employed is payable under any law contract or instrument which provides
  
  for the payment of such sum whether with or without deductions but does not
  
  provide for the time within which the payment is to be made;
  (e) any sum to which the person employed is entitled under any scheme
  
  framed under any law for the time being in force, but does not include -
  (1) any bonus (whether under a scheme of profit sharing or otherwise)
  
  which does not form part of the remuneration payable under the terms of
  
  employment or which is not payable under any award or settlement between the
  
  parties or order of a court;
  (2) the value of any house-accommodation or of the supply of light water
  
  medical attendance or other amenity or of any service excluded from the
  
  computation of wages by a general or special order of the State Government;
  (3) any contribution paid by the employer to any pension or provident fund
  
  and the interest which may have accrued thereon;
  (4) any travelling allowance or the value of any travelling concession;
  (5) any sum paid to the employed person to defray special expenses
  
  entailed on him by the nature of his employment; or
  (6) any gratuity payable on the termination of employment in cases other
  
  than those specified in sub-clause (d).