N.Y. LAB Law § 671 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 19-A / Section 671
Definitions
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§ 671. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Farm" includes stock,\ndairy, poultry, furbearing animal, fruit and truck farms, plantations,\norchards, nurseries, greenhouses, or other similar structures, used\nprimarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities.\n  2. "Employee" includes any individual employed or permitted to work by\nan employer on a farm but shall not include: (a) domestic service in the\nhome of the employer; (b) the parent, spouse, child or other member of\nthe employer's immediate family; (c) a minor under seventeen years of\nage employed as a hand harvest worker on the same farm as his parent or\nguardian and who is paid on a piece-rate basis at the same piece rate as\nemployees seventeen years of age or over; or (d) an individual employed\nor permitted to work for a federal, state, or a municipal government or\npolitical subdivision thereof.\n  3. "Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association,\ncorporation, cooperative, business trust, legal representative, or any\norganized group of persons acting as an employer of an individual\nemployed or permitted to work on a farm. If a farm labor contractor\nrecruits or supplies farm workers for work on a farm, such farm workers\nshall, for the purposes of this article, be deemed to be employees of\nthe owner, lessee or operator of such farm.\n  4. "Farm labor contractor" includes: a. Any person who, for a fee,\nrecruits, transports, supplies, or hires farm or food processing workers\nto work for, or under the direction, supervision, or control of, a third\nperson; or\n  b. Any person who recruits, transports, supplies, or hires farm or\nfood processing workers and who, for a fee, directs, supervises or\ncontrols all or any part of the work of such workers. "Fee" includes any\nmoney or other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid to a\nfarm labor contractor for the performance of any of the services\nenumerated in this definition. The term "farm labor contractor" shall\nnot include an employment agency licensed in accordance with the\nprovisions of article eleven of the general business law.\n  5. "Wage" includes allowances in the amount determined in accordance\nwith the provisions of this article for meals, lodging, and other items,\nservice and facilities when furnished by the employer to his employees.\n  6. "Hours worked" means the time that a farm worker is permitted to\nwork in the fields or at his assigned place of work, and shall include\ntime spent on a single farm in going from one field to another, or in\nwaiting for baskets, pick-up, or for similar purposes; provided,\nhowever, that time not worked because of weather conditions shall not be\nconsidered as hours worked.\n  7. "Work agreement" means a job service recruitment or placement\norder; a farm labor contract or migrant labor registration; an\nagricultural employment contract executed by the employer or its\nrepresentative with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or with the\nrepresentatives of a foreign government; an agreement voluntarily\nentered into by the employer and the worker; or any comparable\nagreement.\n