(a) As used in this act:

(i) 'Wage' means compensation due to an employee by reason of his employment;

(ii) 'Employ' includes to suffer or to permit to work;

(iii) 'Employer' includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee;

(iv) 'Employee' includes any individual employed by an employer but shall not include:

(A) Any individual employed in agriculture;

(B) Any individual employed in domestic service in or about a private home;

(C) Any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity;

(D) Any individual employed by the United States, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof;

(E) Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary basis;

(F) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.

(G) Any individual employed as an outside salesman whose compensation is solely commission on sales;

(H) Any individual whose employment is driving an ambulance or other vehicle from time to time as necessity requires but who is on call at any time;

(J) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 1, § 2.

(v) In this act, 'shall' is used in an imperative sense and 'may' is used in a permissive sense;

(vi) 'Occupation' means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry, or branch or group of industries or employment or class of employment in which individuals are gainfully employed.