As used only in Sections 165.1 through 165.11 of this title:

1. "Employer" means every individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, the legal representative of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee or successor of an individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation, employing any person in this state;

2. "Employee" means any person permitted to work by an employer;

3. "Exempt employee" means those management level employees exempt under the provisions of Section 213 of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C. Section 213, from the provisions of Sections 206 and 207 of said act;

4. "Wages" means compensation owed by an employer to an employee for labor or services rendered, including salaries, commissions, holiday and vacation pay, overtime pay, severance or dismissal pay, bonuses and other similar advantages agreed upon between the employer and the employee, which are earned and due, or provided by the employer to his employees in an established policy, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission or other basis of calculation;

5. "Commissioner" means State Commissioner of Labor; and

6. “Bona fide disagreement” means an honest and sincere belief or assertion based on a dispute of a determinative fact or application of law under this title which is supported by relevant evidence.

Laws 1955, p. 240, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955; Laws 1982, c. 304, § 24, operative Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 1990, c. 333, § 18, emerg. eff. May 31, 1990; Laws 2005, c. 359, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005.