Article 2. Definitions of California Labor Code >> Division 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 2.
Unless provided otherwise, the definitions in this article
govern the construction of this chapter.
"Employer" means a person, partnership, firm, corporation,
association, or other entity, which employs any person or persons to
perform services for a wage or salary, and includes any person,
partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company,
association or other entity acting as an agent of an employer,
directly or indirectly.
"Employee" means any person who performs services for wages
or salary under a contract of employment, express or implied, for an
employer.
"Strike" means any concerted act of more than 50 percent of
the bargaining unit employees in a lawful refusal of such employees
under applicable state or federal law to perform work or services for
an employer, other than work stoppages based on conflicting union
jurisdictions or work stoppages unauthorized by the proper union
governing body.
"Lockout" means any refusal by an employer to permit any
group of five or more employees to work as a result of a dispute with
such employees affecting wages, hours or other terms or conditions
of employment of such employees.
"Professional strikebreaker" means any person other than
supervisorial personnel who have been in the employ of the employer
before the commencement of the strike or lockout or members of the
immediate family of the owner of the place of business:
(1) Who during a period of five years immediately preceding the
acts described in subdivision (2) of this section has offered himself
and has been accepted on repeated occasions to two or more employers
at whose places of business a strike or lockout was currently in
progress, for employment for the duration of such strike or lockout
for the purpose of replacing an employee or employees involved in
such strike or lockout, and
(2) Who currently offers himself to an employer at whose place of
business a strike or lockout is presently in progress for employment
for the purpose of replacing an employee or employees involved in
such strike or lockout.
As used in this section:
(a) "Repeated occasions" means on three or more occasions
(exclusive of any current offer for employment in connection with a
current strike or lockout).
(b) "Employment for the duration of such strike or lockout"
includes employment for all or part of the duration of such strike or
lockout; and, in connection therewith, includes services during all
or part of such strike or lockout which began no more than one month
prior to the initiation thereof, or, in the alternative, which
concluded not later than one month after the termination of such
strike or lockout.
(c) "Employment" means services for an employer, whether
compensated by wages, salary, or any other consideration not limited
to the foregoing and whether secured, arranged or paid for by an
employer or any other person, partnership, firm, corporation,
association or other entity.
(d) "Supervisorial personnel" means those employees who have the
authority to hire, fire, reward, or discipline other employees of the
employer, or who have a history of having had the authority to
effectively recommend such action.