Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 44-827

• 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
• dues check-off: means the practice of an employer to deduct from the salary of an employee, with his consent, an amount for the payment of such employee's membership dues in an employee organization. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
• Employee organization: means any organization which includes employees of an agricultural employer and which has as one of its primary purposes representing such employees in dealings with that agricultural employer over conditions of employment and grievances. See Kansas Statutes 44-819