§ 11.20.020. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"Disability" means, with respect to a person: (a) A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person's major life activities; (b) A record of having such impairment; or (c) Being regarded as having an impairment. "Disability" does not include the current illegal use of, or the addiction to, a controlled substance, or the current abuse of alcohol.

"Employee" means an individual employed by an employer.

"Employer" means a person who has twelve or more employees in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year and an agent of such a person.

"Employment agency" means a person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer, and includes an agent of such person.

"Labor organization" means a labor organization and an agent of such an organization, including an organization of any kind, an agency or employee representation committee, group, association or plan so engaged in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours or other terms or conditions of employment, and a conference, general committee, joint or system board or joint council so engaged which is subordinate as a national or international labor organization.

"Review panel" means a group of five members of the metropolitan human relations commission, to be appointed by the chairman of the commission.

(Amdt. 1 with Ord. 2003-1312 §§ 1, 2, 2003; prior code § 14A-1-1)