O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 34-2-2 (2019)

Definitions

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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As used in this chapter, the term:

(1) ‘‘Employer’’ includes every person, firm, corporation, partnership, stock association, agent, manager, representative, or foreman, or other persons having control or custody of any place of employment or of any employees, except agricultural and domestic labor and those employers having less than eight employees. Naval stores producers shall be classified as agricultural, except where otherwise classified by federal laws.

(2) ‘‘Safe’’ or ‘‘safety’’ as applied to any employment or place of employment shall include conditions and methods of sanitation and hygiene reasonably necessary for the protection of the life, health, safety, and welfare of employees.

History

(Ga. L. 1937, p. 230, §§ 1, 10.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Stanley v. Sims, 185 Ga. 518, 195 S.E. 439 (1937); Martin v. United

States Fid. & Guar. Co., 58 Ga. App. 59, 197 S.E. 660 (1938).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 48 Am. Jur. 2d, Labor and Labor Relations, § 15 et seq. 27 Am. Jur. 2d, Employment Relationship, § 1 et seq. C.J.S. - 51 C.J.S., Labor Relations, § 65.

ALR. - When has employer ‘‘repeatedly’’ violated Occupational Safety and Health Act within meaning of § 17(a) of Act (29 U.S.C.A. § 666(a)), 151 ALR Fed. 1.