§ 341 - Definitions - Vermont Statutes

§ 341. Definitions

(a) "Employee" as used in this chapter means a person who has entered into the employment of an employer, where the employer is unable to show that:

(1) the individual has been and will continue to be free from control or direction over the performance of such services, both under the contract of service and in fact; and

(2) the service is either outside all the usual course of business for which such service is performed, or outside all the places of business of the enterprise for which such service is performed; and

(3) the individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business.

(b) "Employer" as used in sections 342-345 of this title means any person having employees in his or her service. (Amended 1963, No. 198, § 1; 1995, No. 184 (Act. Sess.), § 3.)