Section 9
SEC. 9. Section thirty-nine of the same Act, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and twelve, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 39. Definition of various words.—In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise, the definition of various words used therein shall be as follows: "(a) 'Employer' comprises every association of persons, incorporated or not, public or private, and the legal representative of the deceased employer. It comprises the owner or lessee of a factory or establishment, or place of work or any other person who is virtually the owner or manager of the business carried on in the establishment or place of work but who, for the reason that there is an independent contractor in the same, or for any other reason, ia not the direct employer of laborers employed there. "(b) 'Laborer' is used as a synonym of 'employee' and means every person who has entered the employment of, or works under a service or apprenticeship contract for an employer. It does not include a person whose employment is purely casual and is not for the purposes of the occupation or business of the employer, or whose remuneration paid by any employer, exclusive of overtime pay, is in excess of forty-two pesos a week. Any reference to a laborer injured shall in case he dies, include a reference to the person dependent on him, as defined in this Act, if the context so requires, or, if the employee is a minor or incapacitated, to his guardian or nearest of kin. "(c) 'Injury' or 'personal injuries' includes sickness, injury' or 'personal injuries' or 'sickness' includes death produced by the injury or sickness within one year. "(d) 'Industrial employment' in case of private employers includes all employment or work at a trade, occupation or profession exercised by an employer for the purpose of gain, except agriculture, charitable institutions, and domestic service, but as to agriculture, employees for the operation of mechanical implements shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act. "(e) 'Public employment' signifies employment in the service of the Insular Government or the government of any province, city, municipality or other political subdivision of the Islands. It does not include employment as public officer elected by the popular vote, nor persons paid more than two thousand pesos per annum. "(f) 'Partial disability,' diminished capacity for securing employment due to disfigurement produced by an injury, can be considered as partial disability. "(g) 'Wages' includes the commercial value of the board and lodging, subsistence, fuel and other things that can be reckoned in money which the employee receives from the employer as part of his compensation. " 'Wages' does not include sums paid by the employer to the employee to cover special expenses due him on account of the nature of his employment. "(h) A word in the singular shall also apply to the plural, and vice versa, and one in the masculine gender shall also apply to the feminine."