Current through the 2024 Budget Session
Section 27-4-201 - Definitions(a) As used in this act: (i) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of his employment;(ii) "Employ" includes to suffer or to permit to work;(iii) "Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee;(iv) "Employee" includes any individual employed by an employer but shall not include: (A) Any individual employed in agriculture;(B) Any individual employed in domestic service in or about a private home;(C) Any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity;(D) Any individual employed by the United States, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof;(E) Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary basis;(F) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.(G) Any individual employed as an outside salesman whose compensation is solely commission on sales;(H) Any individual whose employment is driving an ambulance or other vehicle from time to time as necessity requires but who is on call at any time;(J) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.(v) In this act, "shall" is used in an imperative sense and "may" is used in a permissive sense;(vi) "Occupation" means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry, or branch or group of industries or employment or class of employment in which individuals are gainfully employed.