"Employer" includes any body of persons whether incorporated or not and any managing agent of an employer and the legal representative of a deceased employer, and, when the services of a workman are temporarily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the workman has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship, means such other person while the workman is working for him.

[See section 2 (e), the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (Act No. VIII of 1923)] [Now stands repealed]

[See also, section 2(a), the Employers’ Liability Act, 1938 (Act No. XXIV of 1938)]. [Now stands repealed]

'employer' means a person, a body of persons or body corporate, company or institution, owning or managing a shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment, or their heirs, successors or assigns, as the case may be, and includes—

(i) in a factory, any person working as Manager of the factory;

(ii) in any shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment, carried on by or on behalf of a local authority, the officer appointed in this behalf, or where there is no such officer, the chief executive officer of that authority; and

(iii) in relation to any other shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment, every Director, Manager, Secretary, Agent or other officer or person concerned with the management thereof and responsible to the owner for the supervision and control of such shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment.

[See, section 2 (h), the Employment of Labour (Standing Orders) Act, 1965 (East Pakistan Act No. VIII of 1965)]. [Now stands repealed]

"employer" means any person who employs either directly or through another person, whether on behalf of himself or any other person, any person for whom a minimum rate of wages may be declared under this Ordinance, and includes—

(a) in relation to a factory, a managing agent to other person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the factory; and

(b) in other cases, any person responsible to the owner for supervision and control of such worker or for payment of his wages.

[See, section 2 (4), the Minimum Wages Ordinance, 1961 (Ordinance No. XXXIX of 1961)] [Now stands repealed].

"employer" includes a former employer.

[See, section 2 (27), the Income–Tax Ordinance, 1984 (Ordinance No. XXXVI of 1984)] [Now stands repealed].

Body of persons, whether incorporated or not, who or which employs workmen in the establishment under a contract of employment and includes—

(a) an heir, successor or assign, as the case may be, of such person or body as aforesaid;

(b) any person responsible for the management, supervision and control of the establishment;

(c) in relation to an establishment run by or under the authority of any Ministry or Division of the Government, the authority appointed in this behalf or, where no authority is so appointed, the Head of the Ministry or Division;

(d)in relation to an establishment run by or on behalf of a local authority, the officer appointed in this behalf, or, where no officer is so appointed, the chief executive officer of that authority;

Special Provision.—For the purposes of distinction from the category of "worker" or "workmen", officers and employees of a Ministry or Division of the Government or a local authority who belong to the superior managerial, secretarial, directorial, supervisory or agency staff and who have been notified for this purpose in the official Gazette shall be deemed to fall within the category of "employer".

(e) in relation to any other establishment, the proprietor of such establishment and-every director, manager, secretary, agent or other officer or person concerned with the management of the affairs thereof and, in the case of a banking company, also the person who holds a general power of attorney or has authority to sign, endorse or discharge negotiable instruments on behalf of the banking Company.

[See, section 2 (viii), the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 (Ordinance No. XXIII of 1969)] [Now stands repealed].

"employer” means the owner of a shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment and includes —

(i) in any shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment, under the control of any Department of the Government, the authority appointed in this behalf, or where no authority is so appointed, the Head of the Department;

(ii) in any shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment, carried on by or on behalf of local authority, the officer appointed in this behalf, or where there is no such officer, the chief executive officer of that authority; or

(iii) in relation to any other shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment, the proprietor of such shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment and every Director, Manager, Secretary, Agent or other officer or person concerned with the management thereof and responsible to the owner for the supervision and control of such shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment.

[See, section 2 (g), the Shops and Establishments Act, 1965 (E. P. Act VII of 1965)]. [Now stands repealed].

"employer" means any person who employees five or more persons in an apprenticeable; trade in an undertaking, either directly or through another person whether on behalf of himself or any other person, and includes any person who has ultimate control over, or is responsible to the owner thereof for, the affairs of an
undertaking.