2023 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; or
b.  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.