Interpretation in this Part

In the subsequent sections of this Part“average pay”, in respect of any period of employment, means one twenty-sixth of the worker’s total remuneration for that period of employment except that where a worker by virtue of his contract of service, by custom or by collective agreement is entitled to a longer period of annual holiday with pay then one week, “average pay” in respect of that worker shall mean the fraction of the worker’s total remuneration corresponding to the proportion that the period of holiday calculated in weeks to which he is entitled bears to fifty-two weeks; “total remuneration”, in respect of any period of employment, means all basic wages which the worker is paid or is entitled to be paid by his employer in respect of the labour or services which he has performed for his employer during that period of employment and includes the cash value of any board or lodging provided by his employer, but shall not include any overtime payments, commissions or bonuses: for the purposes of this definition the cash value of any board or lodging shall be deemed to be the amount fixed as such by or under the terms of the worker’s contract of service or, if it is not so fixed, shall be computed at the rate of twenty dollars a month for board and ten dollars a month for lodging; 84 “year of employment”, in relation to a worker, means any period of twelve months during which the worker has actually performed labour or rendered services for the same employer for an aggregate of at least two hundred and fifty days in the case of a worker employed on a weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly basis, and at least one hundred and fifty days in the case of any other worker.