Ark. Code § 11-4-607

Current with all legislation passed during the 2023 Regular and First Extraordinary Sessions.

Section 11-4-607 - Definitions for sections 11-4-608 - 11-4-612

As used in §§ 11-4-608 - 11-4-612, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)

(A) "Employee" means an individual who performs services for an employer for wages in a lawful business, industry, trade, profession, or enterprise, and the individual's employment status has been determined by consideration of the twenty-factor test required by the Empower Independent Contractors Act of 2019, § 11-1-201 et seq.

(B) "Employee" does not include a person engaged in domestic service in the home of the employer; in agricultural service, or in temporary or seasonal employment; an employee of any social club, fraternal, charitable, educational, religious, scientific, or literary association, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private individual;

(2) "Employer" means a person, natural or artificial, acting in the interest of an employer directly or indirectly; and

(3) "Employment" means employment of an employee under contract of hire, expressed or implied, written or oral.

Ark. Code § 11-4-607

Amended by Act 2019, No. 1055,§ 3, eff. 7/24/2019.

Acts 1955, No. 361, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-623.