Minnesota Administrative Rules

3315.0905 DEFINITIONS.

Subpart 1.

Domestic service.

"Domestic service" means work ordinarily performed as an integral part of household duties that contribute to the maintenance of the employer's private home or administers to the personal wants and comforts of the employer and other members of the employer's household. In general "domestic service" includes work performed by cooks, table servers, butlers, housekeepers, house servants, security guards, cleaners, companions, child care providers and teachers employed in the household, valets, babysitters, launderers, furnace workers, caretakers, gardeners, grooms, sewing workers, odd-job workers, and chauffeurs of family automobiles. Domestic service performed for fraternities and sororities also includes services performed by houseparents.

Subp. 2.

Local college club.

"Local college club" means a club operated and controlled by and for the benefit of students enrolled at a university or college.

Subp. 3.

Private home.

"Private home" means the fixed abode of one or more persons. Any shelter used as a dwelling may be considered as a private home including a tent, boat, trailer, or a room or suite in a hospital, hotel, sanatorium, or nursing home. A cooperative boarding and lodging facility may also be a private home. In an apartment house, each apartment, together with its stairways, halls, and porches is a private home. Parts of the premises devoted to common use, such as an office, furnace room, lawns, public stairways, halls, and porches, are not a part of the private home. If a facility is used mainly as a commercial rooming or boarding house only that part of the house which is used as the operator's living quarters is considered to be a private home.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 268.021

History:

13 SR 1057; 17 SR 1279

Published Electronically:

July 31, 2007