Legislation

§ 1050. Definitions. For purposes of this article:

1. "Employer" means an individual, partnership, association,
corporation, limited liability company, trust, government or government
subdivision, or any organized group that hires or contracts with a
worker to work for the employer. For the purposes of this article, this
term shall also include any subsidiary of an employer and any
individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability
company, trust, government or government subdivision, or any organized
group associated with an employer that provides training to workers.

2. "Worker" means an individual who is permitted to work for or on
behalf of an employer. The term "worker" includes an employee,
independent contractor, extern, intern, volunteer, apprentice, sole
proprietor who provides a service or services to an employer or to a
client or customer of an employer on behalf of such employer, and an
individual who provides service through a business or nonprofit entity
or association. "Worker" does not include an individual, even if the
individual performs incidental service for the employer, whose sole
relationship with the employer is as a vendor of goods.

3. "Employment promissory note" means any instrument, agreement, or
contract provision that requires a worker to pay the employer, or the
employer's agent or assignee, a sum of money if the worker leaves such
employment before the passage of a stated period of time. "Employment
promissory note" includes any such instrument, agreement, or contract
provision which states such payment of moneys constitutes reimbursement
for training provided to the worker by the employer or by a third party.