{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-341.060","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 341.060","heading":"Employing unit.","body":"(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, \"employing\nunit\" means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership,\nassociation, society, trust, estate, joint -stock company, corporation, insurance\ncompany, whether any of these are domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in\nbankruptcy, trustee or the legal representative of a deceased person, or this state or\nany department, division, administrative unit, political subdivision or municipality\nthereof, which has or subsequent to January 1, 1936, had one (1) or more workers\nperforming services for it within this state, or one (1) or more workers performing\nservices for it in covered employment in any state, or any successor to any\nemploying unit defined in this subsection.\n(2) All workers performing service within this state for any employing unit which\nmaintains two (2) or more separate establishments within this state shall be deemed\nto be employed by a single employing unit for all purposes of this chapter.\n(3) For purposes of this chapter agricultural workers who are members of a crew\nfurnished by a crew leader to perform agricultural labor for another person shall be\ndeemed to be employed by such crew leader as the employing unit provided that:\n(a) Such crew leader holds a valid certificate of registration under the Farm Labor\nContractor Registration Act of 1963; or\n(b) Substantially all the members of such crew operate or maintain tractors,\nmechanized harvesting or cropdusting equipment, or any other mechan ized\nequipment, which is provided by such crew leader; and\n(c) Such individual is not an employee of such other person within the meaning\nof paragraph (a).\n(4) For purposes of this chapter, if an individual is furnished by a crew leader to\nperform agricultural labor for another person and who is not treated as an employee\nof such crew leader under subsection (3) such other person, and not the crew leader,\nshall be treated as the employing unit of such individual; and\n(a) Such other person shall be treated a s having paid cash remuneration to such\nindividual in an amount equal to the amount of cash remuneration paid to such\nindividual by the crew leader (either on his behalf or on behalf of such other\nperson) for the agricultural labor performed for such other person.\n(5) For purposes of this section, the term \"crew leader\" means an individual who:\n(a) Furnishes individuals to perform agricultural labor for any other person,\n(b) Pays (either on his behalf or on behalf of such other person) the individuals so\nfurnished by him for the agricultural labor performed by them, and\n(c) Has not entered into a written agreement with such other person under which\nsuch individual is designated as an employee of such other person.","path":["KRS Chapter 341"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=32237","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:28Z","sha256":"ca6b1aa9e763079faf0acbc89e8acff47852ad3667f418449b8389b46760a307","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-341.055","next":"us-ky/krs-341.065"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}