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employment n. the hiring of a person for compensation. It is important to determine if acts occurred in the "scope of employment" to establish the possible responsibility of the employer to the employee for injuries on the job or to the public for acts of the employee. (See: employee, scope of employment, agency, respondeat superior) EMPLOYMENT. An employment is an office; as, the secretary of the treasury
has a laborious and responsible employment; an agency, as, the employment of
an auctioneer; it signifies also the act by which one is engaged to do
something. 2 Mart. N. S. 672; 2 Harr. Cond. Lo. R. 778.
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Topics for daily features range widely, from taking care of animals on the farm and when to call a vet to purchasing equipment and hiring contract labor. Recent articles have pointed out that in many agencies the number of government employees actually has declined while contract labor is booming. gov) to provide contracting officers with "one-stop" access for Service Contract Act (SCA) and Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) wage determinations (WDs) and related contract labor information. |
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