Section 22
SEC. 22. Section thirty-nine of Act Numbered Three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight, as amended by section thirteen of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred and twelve and by section nine of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and ten, is hereby amended further 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' includes every person or association of persons, incorporated or not, public or private, and the legal representative of the deceased employer. It includes the owner or lessee of a factory or establishment or place of work or any other person who is virtually the owner 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, is 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. Any reference to the person dependent on him, as denned 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. "(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 domestic service. "(e) 'Public employment' signifies employment in the service of the National Government or the government of any province, 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 four thousand eight hundred 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 amounts which the employee receives from the employer as part of his compensation. "(h) A word in the singular shall also imply to the plural and vice versa, and one in the masculine gender shall also apply to the feminine."