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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 319

§40-600.1. Short title – Legislative findings. A. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act". B. The Legislature hereby finds: 1. That professional employer organizations provide a valuable service to commerce and the citizens of this state by increasing the opportunities of employers to develop cost-effective methods of satisfying their personnel requirements and providing employees with access to certain employment benefits which might otherwise not be available to them; 2. That professional employer organizations operating in this state should be properly recognized and regulated by the Department of Insurance of this state, as provided in this act; and 3. That any allocation of the employer’s duties and responsibilities pursuant to this act will preserve all rights to which their covered employees would be entitled under a traditional employment relationship. Added by Laws 2002, c. 64, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.

§40-600.2. Definitions. 1. “Client” means any person who enters into a coemployment relationship as a coemployer with a professional employer organization (PEO); 2. “Coemployer” means either a PEO or a client; 3. “Coemployment relationship” means: a. as between coemployers, a relationship whereby the rights, duties and obligations of an employer which arise out of an employment relationship have been allocated between coemployers pursuant to a professional employer agreement and the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act, and which is intended to be an ongoing relationship, rather than a temporary or project specific relationship, and b. as between each PEO and a covered employee as to which a professional employer agreement applies, an employment relationship whereby: (1) such PEO is entitled to enforce those rights, and obligated to perform those duties and obligations, allocated to such PEO by the professional employer agreement and the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act, and (2) such covered employee is entitled to enforce against such PEO those duties and obligations