Thus, it is clear from the definition of employer that any person who supervises or controls employees or pays wages to employees engaged in any scheduled employment is an employer. The definition of employer is a restrictive definition. Only a person who employs one or more employees in any scheduled employment would be the employer within the meaning of the Act of 1948 and, no doubt, includes the employees as detained in various classes of Section 2 (e) of the Act of 1948. In view of the restricted meaning, only employer engaged in scheduled employment is governed by the provisions of the Act of 1948. If any employer not engaged in scheduled employment is not liable to pay minimum wages. Similarly, the word employee is defined under Section 2 (i) of the Act of 1948. According to it, employee means any person who is employed for hire or reward to do any work, skilled or unskilled, manual or clerical, in a scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed; and includes an out-worker to whom any articles or materials are given out by another person to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, repaired, adapted or otherwise processed for sale for the purposes of the trade or business of that other person where the process is to be carried out either in the home of the outworker or in some other premises not being premises under the control and management of that other person; and also includes an employee declared to be an employee by the appropriate Government; but does not include any member of the Armed Force of the [Union].
