In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context (13) 'employee ' means any person employed to do any skilled or unskilled work for hire or reward in any industry, and includes (a) a person employed by a contractor to do any work for him in the execution of a contract with an employer within the meaning of sub clause (e) of clause (14); (14) 'employer ' includes (e) where the owner of any undertaking in the course of or for the purpose of conducting the undertaking 196 contracts with any person for the execution by or under the contractor of the whole or any part of any work which is ordinarily part of the undertaking, the owner of the undertaking." Shri Desai on behalf of the appellant submitted that the respondents in this Court who were gardeners employed by a contractor cannot fall within the definition of the word employee as contained in section 14(e) of the Act.