Industrial relations definitions clarify employer, employee, worker, wages, lay-off, retrenchment and dispute mechanisms, rights and procedures. Section 2 provides the definitional core for the Code: it identifies the appropriate Government and key institutional actors, defines employer, employee, worker (with exclusions), fixed term employment and industry/industrial establishment rules, and sets out principal industrial-relations concepts-industrial dispute, award, settlement, conciliation, strike, lock-out, lay-off (with attendance presumptions) and retrenchment (with enumerated exclusions). It also defines wages and lists inclusions and exclusions with rules for computation and gender-equal wage treatment.