law: The Un-organised Workers' Social Security Act, 2008.
  2. Definitions. -
  In this Act, unless
  
  the context otherwise requires,-
  a.  
  
    "employer"
  
  means a person or an association of persons, who has engaged or employed an
  
  unorganised worker either directly or otherwise for remuneration;
  b.  
  
    "home-based
  
  worker" means a person engaged in the production of goods or services for
  
  an employer in his or her home or other premises of his or her choice other
  
  than the workplace of the employer, for remuneration, irrespective of whether
  
  or not the employer provides the equipment, materials or other inputs;
  c.  
  
    "identity
  
  card" means a card, document or certificate issued to an unorganised
  
  worker by the District Administration under sub-section (3) of section 10;
  d.  
  
    "National
  
  Board" means the National Social Security Board for unorganised workers
  
  constituted under sub-section (1) of section 5;
  e.  
  
    "notification"
  
  
  
  means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
  f.  
  
    "organised
  
  sector'' means an enterprise which is not an unorganised sector;
  g.  
  
    "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the Central Government or the
  
  State Government, as the case may be;
  h.  
  
  
  
    "registered
  
  worker" means an unorganised worker registered under sub-section (3) of
  
  section 10;
  i.  
  
    "Schedule"
  
  means the Schedule annexed to the Act;
  j.  
  
    "State
  
  Board" means the (name of the State) State Social Security Board for
  
  unorganised workers constituted under sub-section (1) of section 6;
  k.  
  
    "self-employed
  
  worker" means any person who is not employed by an employer, but engages
  
  himself or herself in any occupation in the unorganised sector subject to a
  
  monthly earning of an amount as may be notified by the Central Government or
  
  the State Government from time to time or holds cultivable land subject to such
  
  ceiling as may be notified by the State Government;
  l.  
  
    "unorganised
  
  sector" means an enterprise owned by individuals or self-employed workers
  
  and engaged in the production or sale of goods or providing service of any kind
  
  whatsoever, and where the enterprise employs workers, the number of such
  
  workers is less than ten;
  m.  
  
  
  
    "unorganised
  
  worker" means a home-based worker, self-employed worker or a wage worker
  
  in the unorganised sector and includes a worker in the organised sector who is
  
  not covered by any of the Acts mentioned in Schedule II to this Act; and
  n.  
  
    "wage
  
  worker" means a person employed for remuneration in the unorganised
  
  sector, directly by an employer or through any contractor, irrespective of
  
  place of work, whether exclusively for one employer or for one or more
  
  employers, whether in cash or in kind, whether as a home-based worker, or as a
  
  temporary or casual worker, or as a migrant worker, or workers employed by
  
  households including domestic workers, with a monthly wage of an amount as may
  
  be notified by the Central Government and State Government, as the case may be.