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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 321 services shall be subject to registration under the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act regardless of its use of the term “professional employer organization”, “PEO”, “staff leasing company”, “registered staff leasing company”, “employee leasing company”, or any other name; 10. “Professional employer services” means the service of entering into coemployment relationships under the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act, in which, except in isolated instances, all or a majority of the employees providing services to a client or to a division or work unit of client are covered employees; 11. “Registrant” means a PEO registered under the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act; and 12. “Temporary help services” means a service whereby a person hires workers and assigns them to a person for a temporary time period or nonpermanent basis to support or supplement the other person’s workforce in special work situations such as, but not limited to, employee absences, temporary skill shortages, seasonal workloads, and special assignments and projects. Temporary help services shall not be deemed professional employer services. Added by Laws 2002, c. 64, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.

§40-600.3. Effect of act on collective bargaining agreements, licensing, and tax credits. A. Collective bargaining agreements. Nothing contained in the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act or in any professional employer agreement shall affect, modify or amend any collective bargaining agreement, or the rights or obligations of any client, PEO, or covered employee under the National Labor Relations Act. B. Licensing. Nothing contained in the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act or any professional employer agreement shall affect, modify or amend any state, local, or federal licensing, registration, or certification requirement applicable to any client or covered employee. C. Licensed employees. A covered employee who must be licensed, registered, or certified according to law or regulation is deemed solely an employee of the client for purposes of any such license, registration, or certification requirement. D. Licensed activities. A PEO shall not be deemed to engage in any occupation, trade, profession, or other activity that is subject to licensing, registration, or certification requirements, or is otherwise regulated by a governmental entity solely by entering into and maintaining a coemployment relationship with a covered employee who is subject to such requirements or regulation.