Rule 300-2-3-.10 - Domestic Service Excluded from Employment(1) General definition. This section of the rules defines domestic services which are exempt under the law, provided they are not included under OCGA Section 34-8-33.(2) Domestic service. a) Services which are domestic services. Domestic services include services of a household nature in or about a private home, local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, performed by individuals such as cooks, maids, baby-sitters, handymen, gardeners, and chauffeurs of automobiles for family use. The domestic services must be performed by an individual in or about the private home, local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority of the person employing the individual.(3) Services which are not domestic services. Some examples of services, which are not domestic services, are secretarial services performed in a private home and services in relation to remodeling or building a private home, local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority. (a) Private home. A private home is a fixed place of abode of an individual or family; this may include a dwelling unit in an apartment building or hotel. It shall also include a nursing home when the family of the patient hires sitters who are not employees of the nursing home.(b) Local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority. A local college club does not include an alumni club or chapter.(c) Services not exempt. Services of a household nature are not exempt if performed in or about rooming or boarding houses, hotels, hospitals, commercial offices or for home-owners associations. Services not of a household nature, regardless of where performed, are not exempt. Authority OCGA Sections 34-8-70 and 34-8-150.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 300-2-3-.10
O.C.G.A. Secs. 34-8-70, 34-8-150.
Original Rule entitled "Domestic Service Excluded" adopted. F. Aug. 28, 1992; eff. Sept. 17, 1992.Amended: Rule retitled "Domestic Service Excluded from Employment". F. Jun. 25, 1998; eff. July 15, 1998.