Domestic service definition

Domestic service means the type of service supplied to the owner or his authorized agent or to the occupant or tenant of any space or area occupied for the distinct purpose of a dwelling house, rooming house, apartment, flat, etc.
Domestic service means any services for a person in the operation and maintenance of a private household, local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, as distinguished from service as an employee in the pursuit of an employer's trade, occupation, profession, enterprise or vocation.
Domestic service means services related to the care of an individual in a private home or the

Examples of Domestic service in a sentence

  • Domestic service in a private home, local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority not operated for profit.

  • Domestic service is not excluded from the term "employment" if performed for an employer as defined in section 41(6).

  • Domestic service in a private home, local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority performed for a person who paid cash remuneration of $1,000 or more in any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year to individuals em- ployed in such domestic service.

  • Domestic service in a private home prior to January 1, 1978, and after December 31, 1977, domestic service in a private home not covered as domestic service under the definition of employment.

  • Domestic service employees who reside in the household where they are employed are entitled to the same min- imum wage as domestic service em- ployees who work by the day.


More Definitions of Domestic service

Domestic service means in-house use plus lawn & garden sprinkling to a maximum area of 1/10 of an acre;
Domestic service means service within the territorial limits of the fifty states.
Domestic service means scheduled or non-scheduled air transportation (excluding Charters) for transport of passengers and goods from and to the same point or between points wholly within Canada.
Domestic service means a service connection through which water is obtained for all purposes permissible under law, including commercial and industrial uses exclusive of fire protection and construction service.
Domestic service means service by a veteran during the period of service which is not foreign service.
Domestic service means an occasional, irregular, or incidental nonhazardous occupational activity related to and conducted in or around a private residence, including but not limited to babysitting, pet sitting or similar household chore, and manual yard work. Domestic service specifically excludes industrial homework.
Domestic service means employment in a private, household and includes employment as cook, driver, gardener, “garde malade”, maid or seamstress.