Division II - Employers' Organization — Interpretation

"accredited employers' organization" means an organization of employers that is accredited under this Act as the bargaining agent for a unit of employers in the construction industry;

"construction industry" means the on-site constructing, erecting, altering, decorating, repairing or demolishing of buildings, structures, roads, sewers, water mains, pipe lines, tunnels, shafts, bridges, wharves, piers, canals or other works;

"sector" means the following divisions of the construction industry, namely:

the industrial and commercial division, (ii) the house building division, (iii) the sewers, tunnels and water mains division, or (iv) the road building division, and includes other divisions of that industry that may be determined by the board;

"unionized employee" means an employee on behalf of whom a trade union or council of trade unions has been certified as bargaining agent under this Act or voluntarily recognized by an employer, where the certification has not been revoked or the bargaining rights have not been terminated; and

"unionized employer" means an employer of unionized employees in the geographic area and sector concerned.

For the purposes of this Division, an employee is, in respect of a sector and area applied for, a person who was on the payroll of an employer in that sector and area for the weekly payroll period immediately preceding the date of the application, or, where, in the opinion of the board, the payroll period is unsatisfactory for 1 or more of the unionized employers in the sector and area applied for, then, the other weekly payroll period of 1 or more of the employers that the board considers advisable.