Definitions

As used in this Chapter: “Commissioner” means the Wage and Hour Commissioner. “Employ” includes to permit or suffer to work. “Employer” includes any individual partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, government entity or instrumentality, or any organized group of persons, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, but shall not include the United States Government, except when engaged in non-appropriated fund activities. “Employee” includes any individual employed by an employer, but shall not include any individual employed; in agriculture for any workweek in which the employer of the individual employs less than ten

(10)persons; in domestic employment in or about a private home. “Industry” means a trade, business, industry, or branch thereof, or group of industries to which individuals are employed. “Wage” means (except as the Wage and Hour Commissioner may provide under § 3116) legal tender of the United States, or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value thereof and in addition thereto the reasonable cost, as determined by the Commissioner, to the employer of furnishing an employee with board, lodging or other facilities if such board, lodging or other facilities are customarily furnished by such employer to his employees but shall not include tips or gratuities of any kind: Provided, that the cost of board, lodging or other facilities shall not be included as a part of the wage paid to any employee to the extent that it is excluded therefrom under the terms of a bona fide collective bargaining agreement applicable to the particular employee. “Week” means any period of seven

(7)consecutive days. COL08222024 CH. 3 FAIR LABOR STANDARDS “Agriculture” means agriculture as defined in Section 3(f) of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, or as the same may be amended from time to time.