Definitions.
Section 2
SEC. 2. Definitions.—As used in this Act— "Court" means the Court of Industrial Relations established by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and three, as amended, unless another Court shall be specified. "Service" means the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor. The term "employer" includes any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly but shall not include any labor organization (otherwise than when acting as an employer) or anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization. The term "employee" shall include any employee and shall not be limited to the employee of a particular employer unless the Act explicitly states otherwise and shall include any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice and who has not obtained any other substantially equivalent and regular employment. "Labor organization" means any union or association of employees which exists, in whole or in part, for the purpose of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning terms and conditions of employment. "Legitimate labor organization" means any labor organization registered by the Department of Labor, and includes any branch or local thereof. The term "company union" means a labor organization the formation or administration of which has been assisted by any Act defined in Section four as an unfair labor practice. "Representative" includes a legitimate labor organization or any officer or agent of such organization whether or not employed by the employer or employees whom he represents. The term "unfair labor practice" means any unfair labor practice listed in section four. The term "labor dispute" includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. "Supervisor" means any person having authority in the interest of an employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay-off, recall, discharge, assign, recommend, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, and to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such acts if, in connection with the foregoing, the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routinary or clerical nature but requires the use of independent judgment. "Strike" means any temporary stoppage of work by the concerted action of employees as a result of an industrial dispute. "Lockout" means the temporary refusal of any employer to furnish work as a result of an industrial dispute.