Are PT Gardeners Considered Domestic Help???

Are part-time gardeners considered domestic help?

We have a fellow who I'd classify a gardener, he keeps the property clean, waters plants, runs the well pump to keep the cistern filled for watering, etc. He also comes each morning to feed our dogs. Nothing else. He has his own little business selling produce from a stand down the road, and lives with his family a few miles away.

As far as the Dominican Labor Code, is he considered domestic?

Don't get me wrong, we intend to pay some liquidation to him. Mr.AE's brother went to the labor office in SD and they gave him a paper saying we owe about 1800 pesos - I presume that's the percentage of this year's vacation and Christmas bonus - through the end of this month. Apparently they told him he's a domestic employee. Brother suggested we add another 5000 pesos for 'good will'. He's bringing the paper out to our house.

Meanwhile, I went online and figured the liquidation as if he wasn't a domestic employee [it's a private home, no business, no rentals, nothing at all like that], and it came to 22K+. HOWEVER, he has told our maid that he expects 80K, and therein lies the problem. Bear in mind that he has no clue we intend to fire him - he's just looking for liquidation "to solve his problems", but hasn't had the guts to ask for it yet.

He is Haitian, and in the middle of getting the regularization done for himself, his wife and their son, we helped him with the paperwork. He's been here a long time, 10 years, but the time has come to part ways. He shows up when he wants, sometimes not at all, only wants to use mechanical items [weed wackers, blowers, etc, etc], not a machete [for example] and if something more needs to be done he insists we hire someone else for the day or days [even though we'd pay him the extra that we pay to the strangers].