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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 329 Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act by the Department, shall be confidential and shall not be published or open to public inspection other than to public employees in the performance of their public duties. Added by Laws 2002, c. 64, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.

§40-600.7. Contract requirements – Rights and duties of employer, employee, and client – Notice – Workers’ compensation – Benefit plans – Liability – Sales tax. A. Contractual relationship. Except as specifically provided in the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act, the coemployment relationship between the client and the PEO, and between each coemployer and each covered employee, shall be governed by the professional employer agreement. Nothing contained in any professional employer agreement or the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act shall be deemed to: 1. Diminish, abolish or remove rights of covered employees as to clients or obligations of such client as to a covered employee, existing prior to the effective date of a professional employer agreement; 2. Terminate an employment relationship existing prior to the effective date of a professional employer agreement; or 3. Create any new or additional enforcement right of a covered employee against a PEO not specifically allocated to such PEO in the professional employer agreement or the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act. B. Allocation of rights, duties and obligations. Except as specifically provided in the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act or in the professional employer agreement, in each coemployment relationship: 1. The client shall be entitled to exercise all rights, and shall be obligated to perform all duties and responsibilities, otherwise applicable to an employer in an employment relationship; and 2. The PEO shall be entitled to exercise only those rights, and obligated to perform only those duties and responsibilities, specifically required by the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act or set forth in the professional employer agreement. The rights, duties, and obligations of the PEO as coemployer with respect to any covered employee shall be limited to those arising pursuant to the professional employer agreement and the Oklahoma Professional Employer Organization Recognition and Registration Act during the term of coemployment by the PEO of such covered employee.