27-4-201. Definitions.
(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(F) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.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(J) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.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.