(a)As used in this article, unless the context clearly
requires otherwise:
(i)"Appointed official" means a person holding an
appointed position or office with any department, board,
commission or agency of the state, or of any political
subdivision or municipal corporation, when the office or
position is established by the constitution or laws of this
state;
(ii)"Benefit, benefit of employment, rights and
benefits" means any advantage, profit, privilege, gain, status,
account or interest other than wages or salary for work
performed that accompanies by reason of an employment contract
or agreement or an employer policy, plan or practice and
includes rights and benefits under a pension plan, a health
plan, an employee stock ownership plan, insurance coverage and
awards, bonuses, severanc
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(a) As used in this article, unless the context clearly
requires otherwise:
(i) "Appointed official" means a person holding an
appointed position or office with any department, board,
commission or agency of the state, or of any political
subdivision or municipal corporation, when the office or
position is established by the constitution or laws of this
state;
(ii) "Benefit, benefit of employment, rights and
benefits" means any advantage, profit, privilege, gain, status,
account or interest other than wages or salary for work
performed that accompanies by reason of an employment contract
or agreement or an employer policy, plan or practice and
includes rights and benefits under a pension plan, a health
plan, an employee stock ownership plan, insurance coverage and
awards, bonuses, severance pay, supplemental unemployment
benefits, vacations and the opportunity to select work hours or
location of employment;
(iii) "Compensation" means normal or regular base
pay, but does not include overtime, per diem, differential pay
or any other allowance for other expense, and for firemen,
policemen and deputy sheriffs shall also include supplemental
pay;
(iv) "Elected official" means a person holding an
office in a governmental entity of the state or any of its
political subdivisions which is filled by the vote of the
appropriate electorate;
(v) "Employee" means any person employed by any
private or public employer, including an elected or appointed
official;
(vi) "Employment" means a position as an employee
with any private or public employer, including commencement of
employment, by any actions in furtherance of employment, once an
offer has been extended by an employer and accepted by an
employee. Service in the military service greater than thirty
(30) days shall not be considered secondary employment;
(vii) "Public retirement system" means any public
retirement or pension system, fund or plan maintained primarily
for officers and employees of the state of Wyoming or of any
political subdivision thereof, or any district, board,
commission or other agency of either, or of any other such
public entity;
(viii) "Reasonable efforts", in the case of actions
required of an employer under this article, means actions,
including training provided by an employer, that do not place an
undue hardship on the employer;
(ix) "Service in the uniformed services" means the
performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a
uniformed service under competent authority and includes active
duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for
training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty,
a period for which a person is absent from a position of
employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the
fitness of the person to perform any such duty and active state
service by members of the national guard of any state who are
activated pursuant to a call of a governor as provided for by
law;
(x) "Undue hardship", in the case of actions taken by
an employer, requires consideration of the following factors:
(A) Actions requiring significant difficulty or
expense, when considered in light of the nature and cost of the
actions needed under this article;
(B) The overall financial resources of the
facility or facilities involved in the provision of the action;
(C) The number of persons employed at such
facility;
(D) The effect on expenses and resources or the
impact otherwise of such action upon the operation of the
facility;
(E) The overall financial resources of the
employer;
(F) The overall size of the business of an
employer with respect to the number of its employees;
(G) The number, type and location of its
facilities;
(H) The type of operation or operations of the
employer, including the composition, structure and functions of
the work force of such employer; and
(J) The geographic separateness, administrative
or fiscal relationship of the facility or facilities in question
to the employer.
(xi) "Uniformed services" means as defined in W.S. 8-
1-102(a)(xxii);
(xii) "This act" means W.S. 19-11-101 through