Kansas Statutes 44-822. Rights of agricultural employers
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 44-822
- Agricultural employer: shall mean any employer engaged in cultivating the soil or in raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity including custom harvesting operators operating wholly within the state of Kansas, and employers engaged in operating stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, furbearing animal, wildlife and truck farms, plantations, ranches, feedlots, ranges, orchards, or other similar agricultural enterprises and who employed six or more employees for 20 or more days of any calendar month in the six months preceding the filing for recognition by such employees as an employee organization as provided for in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
An agricultural employer shall have the right to manage his own production operations including all decisions as to the equipment and materials used to grow and market his crops and all determinations as to the crops to be produced. Such an employer shall also have the right to employ himself or a member of his family, on his own operations and at all times to speak freely to his employee in regard to these matters, except that he may not threaten discharge or wage loss because of an employee’s labor activities carried on in accordance with this act.
Nothing in this act is intended to deprive an agricultural employer of his existing right to:
(a) Direct the work of his employees;
(b) Hire, promote, demote, transfer, assign and retain employees;
(c) Suspend or discharge employees for cause;
(d) Maintain the efficiency of operations;
(e) Relieve employees from duties because of lack of work or for other legitimate reasons;
(f) Determine the methods, means and personnel by which operations are to be carried on.