NY Lab L § 671 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 19-A - Minimum Wage Standards and Protective Labor Practices for Farm Workers 671 - Definitions.

§ 671. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Farm" includes stock,   dairy,  poultry,  furbearing animal, fruit and truck farms, plantations,   orchards, nurseries, greenhouses,  or  other  similar  structures,  used   primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities.2. "Employee" includes any individual employed or permitted to work by   an employer on a farm but shall not include: (a) domestic service in the   home  of  the employer; (b) the parent, spouse, child or other member of   the employer's immediate family; (c) a minor under  seventeen  years  of   age  employed as a hand harvest worker on the same farm as his parent or   guardian and who is paid on a piece-rate basis at the same piece rate as   employees seventeen years of age or over; or (d) an individual  employed   or  permitted to work for a federal, state, or a municipal government or   political subdivision thereof.3.  "Employer"  includes  any  individual,  partnership,  association,   corporation,  cooperative,  business trust, legal representative, or any   organized group of persons  acting  as  an  employer  of  an  individual   employed  or  permitted  to  work  on a farm. If a farm labor contractor   recruits or supplies farm workers for work on a farm, such farm  workers   shall,  for  the  purposes of this article, be deemed to be employees of   the owner, lessee or operator of such farm.4. "Farm labor contractor" includes: a. Any person  who,  for  a  fee,   recruits, transports, supplies, or hires farm or food processing workers   to work for, or under the direction, supervision, or control of, a third   person; orb.  Any  person  who  recruits, transports, supplies, or hires farm or   food processing workers and who,  for  a  fee,  directs,  supervises  or   controls all or any part of the work of such workers. "Fee" includes any   money  or  other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid to a   farm labor contractor  for  the  performance  of  any  of  the  services   enumerated  in  this  definition. The term "farm labor contractor" shall   not include  an  employment  agency  licensed  in  accordance  with  the   provisions of article eleven of the general business law.5.  "Wage"  includes allowances in the amount determined in accordance   with the provisions of this article for meals, lodging, and other items,   service and facilities when furnished by the employer to his employees.6. "Hours worked" means the time that a farm worker  is  permitted  to   work  in  the fields or at his assigned place of work, and shall include   time spent on a single farm in going from one field to  another,  or  in   waiting  for  baskets,  pick-up,  or  for  similar  purposes;  provided,   however, that time not worked because of weather conditions shall not be   considered as hours worked.7. "Work agreement" means  a  job  service  recruitment  or  placement   order;   a  farm  labor  contract  or  migrant  labor  registration;  an   agricultural  employment  contract  executed  by  the  employer  or  its   representative  with  the  Commonwealth  of  Puerto  Rico  or  with  the   representatives  of  a  foreign  government;  an  agreement  voluntarily   entered  into  by  the  employer  and  the  worker;  or  any  comparable   agreement.