Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 34 > Chapter 20 - Employment Relations and Collective Bargaining

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Commerce: means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication within the state. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Employee: includes any employee unless this chapter explicitly states otherwise, and includes an individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Employer: includes a person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly, but does not include:
       (5)(a) the United States;
       (5)(b) a state or political subdivision of a state;
       (5)(c) a person subject to the federal Railway Labor Act;
       (5)(d) a labor organization, other than when acting as an employer;
       (5)(e) a corporation or association operating a hospital if no part of the net earnings inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual; or
       (5)(f) anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of a labor organization. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal executive agency: means an executive agency, as defined in 5 U. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Franchise: means the same as that term is defined in Utah Code 34-20-2
• Franchisee: means the same as that term is defined in Utah Code 34-20-2
• Franchisor: means the same as that term is defined in Utah Code 34-20-2
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Labor dispute: means any controversy between an employer and the majority of the employer's employees in a collective bargaining unit concerning the right or process or details of collective bargaining or the designation of representatives. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Labor organization: means an organization of any kind or any agency or employee representation committee or plan in which employees participate that exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative: when used to describe the powers, duties, or functions of a county commission or council, refers to:
       (3)(a) the power and duty to enact ordinances, levy taxes, and establish budgets; and
       (3)(b) those powers, duties, and functions that, under constitutional and statutory provisions and through long usage and accepted practice and custom at the federal and state level, have come to be regarded as belonging to the legislative branch of government. See Utah Code 17-50-101
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, or receiver. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: includes :
       (31)(a) land;
       (31)(b) a tenement;
       (31)(c) a hereditament;
       (31)(d) a water right;
       (31)(e) a possessory right; and
       (31)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Representative: includes an individual or labor organization. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• Secondary boycott: includes combining or conspiring to cause or threaten to cause injury to one with whom no labor dispute exists, whether by:
       (14)(a) withholding patronage, labor, or other beneficial business intercourse;
       (14)(b) picketing;
       (14)(c) refusing to handle, install, use, or work on particular materials, equipment, or supplies; or
       (14)(d) by any other unlawful means, in order to bring him against his will into a concerted plan to coerce or inflict damage upon another. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unfair labor practice: means any unfair labor practice listed in Section 34-20-8. See Utah Code 34-20-2
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5