23-350. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Department" means the labor department of the industrial commission of Arizona.
2. "Employee" means any person who performs services for an employer under a
contract of employment either made in this state or to be performed wholly or partly
within this state.
3. "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company,
trust, corporation, the administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased individual
or the receiver, trustee or successor of any of such persons employing any
person. Employer also includes this state and any county, municipality, school district
or other political subdivision of this state.
4. "Hours worked" includes all time an employee is employed.
5. "Wages" means nondiscretionary compensation due an employee in return for labor
or services rendered by an employee for which the employee has a reasonable expectation
to be paid whether determined by a time, task, piece, commission or other method of
calculation. Wages include sick pay, vacation pay, severance pay, commissions, bonuses
and other amounts promised when the employer has a policy or a practice of making such
payments.
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