Florida Administrative Code › 60 - DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES › 60Y - Commission on Human Relations › Chapter 60Y-3 - DEFINITIONS; CONSTRUCTION › Section 60Y-3.001 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
As used in the rules of the Commission:
(1) "Act" means the Florida Civil Rights Act
				of 1992, as amended; Chapter 760, F.S.
(2) "Chairperson" or "Chair" means the
				Chairperson of the Commission or Chairperson of a Panel, as the context may
				indicate.
(3) "Clerk" means the
				person designated by the Executive Director as heading the Office of the
				Clerk.
(4) "Complaint" means a
				written statement which alleges the occurrence of an unlawful employment
				practice, which is signed and verified by the complainant and includes an
				amended complaint.
(5)
				"Complainant" means a person filing a complaint.
(6) "Commission" means Florida Commission on
				Human Relations.
(7) "Commissioner"
				or "member" means a member of the Commission.
(8) "Division of Administrative Hearings"
				means the Division of Administrative Hearings of the Department of Management
				Services.
(9) "Document" means data
				compilations from which information can be obtained and be included, for
				example: writings, e-mail, drawings, charts, photographs, and phone
				records.
(10) "Employer" means any
				person employing 15 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or
				more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of
				such a person.
(11) "Employment
				Agency" means any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation,
				to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunity to
				work for an employer, and includes an agent of such a person.
(12) "Executive Director" means the Executive
				Director of the Commission.
(13)
				"Disability" means a condition that is an impairment that substantially limits
				one or more of the major life activities as interpreted by  42 U.S.C. §
										12102(2)  in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
(14) "General Counsel" means the General
				Counsel of the Commission.
(15)
				"Hearing Officer" or "Administrative Law Judge" means the person assigned to
				conduct a hearing upon a petition filed with the Commission.
(16) "Intervenor" means any person permitted
				by the Commission, a Panel, or a hearing officer to intervene in a proceeding
				upon a petition.
(17) "Marital
				Status" does not include the identity of the spouse and the relationship to the
				aggrieved person, but rather the fact that the aggrieved person is married,
				single, divorced, separated, widowed, etc.
(18) "Labor Organization" means any
				organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective
				bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or
				conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or protection in connection with
				employment.
(19) "Panel" means a
				panel of three or more Commissioners appointed pursuant to Section
				 760.03(5),
				F.S., and paragraph  60Y-2.003(6)(c),
				F.A.C.
(20) "Party" means any
				person designated as a party to a proceeding before the Commission, pursuant to
				rule of the Commission.
(21)
				"Person" includes an individual, association, corporation, joint apprenticeship
				committee, joint stock company, labor organization, legal representative,
				mutual company, partnership, receiver, trust, trustee in bankruptcy,
				unincorporated organization, any other legal or commercial entity, the state or
				any governmental entity or agency.
(22) "Petition" means a writing, other than a
				written motion, filed with the Commission pursuant to rule of the Commission
				asking that specified action be taken by the Commission or a Panel.
(23) "Petitioner" means the person filing a
				petition with the Commission pursuant to rules of the Commission.
(24) "Respondent" means:
(a) In the case of a complaint, the employer,
				employment agency, labor organization, joint labor-management committee, or
				person designated in the complaint as responsible for the alleged unlawful
				employment practice; or
(b) In the
				case of a petition, the person against whom relief is
				requested.