The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 21 V.S.A. § 1031)
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§ 1031. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Applicant” means a person applying for a license or for a renewal of a license under
this chapter.
(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Labor or the Commissioner’s designee.
(3) “Client company” means a person who enters into an agreement with an employee leasing
company to lease any or all of its regular employees.
(4) “Employee leasing agreement” means an agreement, executed between an employee leasing
company and a client company, pursuant to which an employee leasing company provides
one or more individuals to perform services for a client company on an ongoing basis.
(5) “Employee leasing company” or “leasing company” means a person engaged in the business
of providing individuals to perform ongoing services for an indefinite time period
for client companies pursuant to one or more employee leasing agreements executed
between the leasing company and the client company. “Employee leasing company” does
not include labor organizations.
(6) “Financial responsibility” means the current and expected future condition of financial
solvency sufficient to support a reasonable expectation that an employee leasing company
can successfully conduct its business without jeopardizing the interests of the employees
leased to the client company or the public.
(7) “Licensee” means an employee leasing company licensed under this chapter.
(8) “Temporary help company” means a person who hires its own employees and provides them
to another business entity as temporary full- or part-time personnel to provide services
for a finite period of time in special or unusual situations such as employee absences,
temporary skill shortages, seasonal workloads, and special work assignments and projects. (Added 1995, No. 173 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2005, No. 103 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 5, 2006; 2017, No. 74, § 44.)