§ 28-12-2 - Definitions.
SECTION 28-12-2
§ 28-12-2 Definitions. – As used in this chapter:
(1) "Advisory board" means a board created as provided in§ 28-12-6;
(2) "Commissioner" means the minimum wage commissionerappointed by the director of labor and training as chief of the division oflabor standards;
(3) "Director" means the director of labor and training orhis or her duly authorized representative;
(4) "Employ" means to suffer or to permit to work;
(5) "Employee" includes any individual employed by anemployer, but shall not include:
(i) Any individual employed in domestic service or in orabout a private home;
(ii) Any individual employed by the United States;
(iii) Any individual engaged in the activities of aneducational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where theemployer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist, or where the servicesrendered to the organizations are on a voluntary basis;
(iv) Newspaper deliverers on home delivery, shoe shiners inshoe shine establishments, caddies on golf courses, pin persons in bowlingalleys, ushers in theatres;
(v) Traveling salespersons or outside salespersons;
(vi) Service performed by an individual in the employ of hisor her son, daughter, or spouse and service performed by a child under the ageof twenty-one (21) in the employ of his or her father or mother;
(vii) Any individual employed between May 1 and October 1 ina resort establishment which regularly serves meals to the general public andwhich is open for business not more than six (6) months a year;
(viii) Any individual employed by an organized camp whichdoes not operate for more than seven (7) months in any calendar year. However,this exemption does not apply to individuals employed by the camp on an annual,full-time basis. "Organized camp" means any camp, except a trailer camp, havinga structured program including, but not limited to, recreation, education, andreligious, or any combination of these.
(6) "Employer" includes any individual, partnership,association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of personsacting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer, in relation to anemployee;
(7) "Occupation" means any occupation, service, trade,business, industry, or branch or group of industries or employment or class ofemployment in which individuals are gainfully employed;
(8) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason ofhis or her employment.