Oklahoma § 40-165.1 - Definitions

§ 40-165.1. Definitions

As used only in Sections 165.1 through 165.11 of this title:

1. "Employer" means every individual, partnership, firm,

association, corporation, the legal representative of a deceased

individual, or the receiver, trustee or successor of an individual,

firm, partnership, association or corporation, employing any person

in this state;

2. "Employee" means any person permitted to work by an

employer;

3. "Exempt employee" means those management level employees

exempt under the provisions of Section 213 of the Fair Labor

Standards Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C. Section 213, from the

provisions of Sections 206 and 207 of said act;

4. "Financial institution" means a bank, savings bank, savings

and loan association or credit union whose deposits are insured by

the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union

Administration, or any successor institution;

5. "Payroll card" means a card or other device used by an

employee to access wages from a payroll card account;

6. "Payroll card account" means a prepaid account that is

directly or indirectly established through an employer and to which

transfers of the employee's wages, salary, or other compensation are

made on a recurring basis;

7. "Wages" means compensation owed by an employer to an

employee for labor or services rendered including salaries,

commissions, holiday and vacation pay, overtime pay, severance or

dismissal pay, bonuses and other similar advantages agreed upon

between the employer and the employee, which are earned and due, or

provided by the employer to his or her employees in an established

policy, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece,

commission or other basis of calculation;

8. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor; and

9. "Bona fide disagreement" means an honest and sincere belief

or assertion based on a dispute of a determinative fact or

application of law under this title which is supported by relevant

evidence.

Added by Laws 1955, p. 240, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955. Amended

by Laws 1982, c. 304, § 24, operative Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 1990, c.

333, § 18, emerg. eff. May 31, 1990; Laws 2005, c. 359, § 1, eff.

Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2022, c. 156, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.