The Florida Senate

760.02  Definitions.--For the purposes of ss. 760.01-760.11 and 509.092, the term:

(1)  "Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992" means ss. 760.01-760.11 and 509.092.

(2)  "Commission" means the Florida Commission on Human Relations created by s. 760.03.

(3)  "Commissioner" or "member" means a member of the commission.

(4)  "Discriminatory practice" means any practice made unlawful by the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992.

(5)  "National origin" includes ancestry.

(6)  "Person" includes an individual, association, corporation, joint apprenticeship committee, joint-stock company, labor union, legal representative, mutual company, partnership, receiver, trust, trustee in bankruptcy, or unincorporated organization; any other legal or commercial entity; the state; or any governmental entity or agency.

(7)  "Employer" means any person employing 15 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person.

(8)  "Employment agency" means any 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 a person.

(9)  "Labor organization" means any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or protection in connection with employment.

(10)  "Aggrieved person" means any person who files a complaint with the Human Relations Commission.

History.--s. 2, ch. 69-287; s. 2, ch. 72-48; s. 2, ch. 77-341; s. 3, ch. 79-400; s. 2, ch. 92-177; s. 4, ch. 92-282.

Note.--Former ss. 13.211, 23.162.