NDAC 46-02-07-01
Definitions
Cite as N.D. Admin. Code ยง 46-02-07-01
As used in this title:
1.
"Administrative" means an employee paid on a salary or fee basis and employed in a bona
fide administrative capacity, but is not exclusive to any employee whose primary duty consists
of:
a.
The performance of office or nonmanual work directly related to management policies or
general business operations of the employer or the employer's customer; and
b.
Who customarily and regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment.
2.
"Agricultural employment" means employment on a farm, for a farmer or on a farm as an
incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market,
delivery to storage or to carriers for transportation to market.
3.
"Casual employment" means employment that is irregular or intermittent.
4.
"Domestic service employment" means services of a household nature performed by an
employee in or about a private home (permanent or temporary) of the person by whom the
employee is employed.
5.
"Engaged to wait" means when employees are required to remain on call on the employer's
premises or so close thereto that they cannot use the time effectively for their own purposes
and thus are considered to be working.
6.
"Executive" means an employee paid on a salary or fee basis and employed in a bona fide
executive capacity, but is not exclusive to any employee whose primary duty consists of:
a.
The management of the enterprise in which the employee is employed or of a
customarily recognized department or subdivision thereof;
b.
Directing the work of two or more other employees therein; and
c.
The authority to hire or fire other employees or whose suggestions as to the hiring or
firing and as to the advancement and promotion or any other change of status of other
employees will be given particular weight.
7.
"Highly compensated employee" means an employee who is paid total annualized
compensation of one hundred thousand dollars or more, which includes at least four hundred
fifty-five dollars per week paid on a salary or fee basis. The employee's primary duty includes
performing office or nonmanual work.
8.
"Nonprofit" means a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of this or another state.
9.
"Occasional and sporadic" means infrequent, irregular, or occurring in scattered instances.
10.
"Professional" means an employee paid on a salary or fee basis and employed in a bona fide
professional capacity, but is not exclusive to any employee whose primary duty consists of:
a.
Work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning
customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and
study as distinguished from a general academic education and from an apprenticeship,
and from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes.
b.
Work requiring the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance; and
c.
Work that is predominately intellectual and varied in character (as opposed to routine
mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work) and is of such character that the output
produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period
of time.
11.
"Residential care establishment" means an institution primarily engaged in the care of the sick,
the aged, or the mentally ill residing on the premises requiring general treatment or
observation of a less critical nature than provided by a hospital. Such institutions may include
nursing homes, rest homes, convalescent homes, homes for the elderly and infirm, and the
like.
12.
"Retail establishment" means an establishment in which seventy-five percent or more of the
annual gross sales are sold to the final consumer and are not sold for resale, and is
recognized as retail sales or services in the industry.
13.
"Salary or fee basis" will be interpreted according to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
14.
"Service employee" means any employee who is providing direct service to the customer and
to whom that customer shows appreciation for that service by tipping that employee for the
direct service. The employee must regularly and customarily provide personal face-to-face
service to individual customers, which the customer would recognize as being performed for
his or her benefit. Services such as cooking and dishwashing are not included.
15.
"Service industry" means an industry in which the principal activity is to provide goods and
services directly to the consuming public.
16.
"Taxicab driver" means an individual employed as a driver by a taxicab company; where the
service is a computer or radio dispatched door-to-door service but not a motorcoach or a
routed system.
17.
"Tip credit" means the amount or percentage by which an employer is allowed to reduce the
minimum wage for a tipped employee.
18.
"Tip pooling" means when two or more tipped employees agree to pool their tips and split
them as agreed upon.
19.
"Tipped employee" means any service employee in an occupation in which the employee
customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars a month in tips.
20.
"Total annualized compensation" means commissions, nondiscretionary bonuses, and other
nondiscretionary compensation earned on a basis of a fifty-two-week period, but does not
include board, lodging, or other employer-provided facilities, payments for medical insurance
or life insurance, or contributions to a retirement plan or other fringe benefits.
21.
"Waiting to be engaged" means when employees are on call and not required to remain on the
employer's premises, but are required to respond to a beeper or leave word at home or the
employer's business where they may be reached. Employees are not considered to be
working while in this status.
22.
"Week" means any consecutive seven-day period established by the employer.