§ 27-4-201 — Definitions

Wyoming § 27-4-201

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 27: Labor and Employment
• Ch. 4: WAGES
• Art. 2: MINIMUM WAGES

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by
reason of his employment;
(ii) "Employ" includes to suffer or to permit to
work;
(iii) "Employer" includes any individual,
partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any
person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the
interest of an employer in relation to an employee;
(iv) "Employee" includes any individual employed by
an employer but shall not include:
(A) Any individual employed in agriculture;
(B) Any individual employed in domestic service
in or about a private home;
(C) Any individual employed in a bona fide
executive, administrative, or professional capacity;
(D) Any individual employed by the United
States, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof;
(E) Any individual engaged in the activities of
an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization
where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact,
exist or where the services rendered to such organization are on
a voluntary basis;
(F) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.
(G) Any individual employed as an outside
salesman whose compensation is solely commission on sales;
(H) Any individual whose employment is driving
an ambulance or other vehicle from time to time as necessity
requires but who is on call at any time;
(J) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.
(v) In this act, "shall" is used in an imperative
sense and "may" is used in a permissive sense;
(vi) "Occupation" means any occupation, service,
trade, business, industry, or branch or group of industries or
employment or class of employment in which individuals are
gainfully employed.