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. " Payroll card account" means an account that is directly or indirectly established through an employer and to which electronic fund transfers of an employee's wages are made on a recurring basis whether the account is operated or managed by the employer, a third-party payroll processor, a depository institution or any other person.
6. " 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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