Search results for: “public service employee”
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Agent
(Lat. agens, from agere, to do). One who undertakes p transact some business, or to manage some affair, for another, by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of it. 1 Livermore, Ag. 67; 2 Bouv. Inst. 3. The term is one of a very wide application, and […]
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Agent
(Lat. agens, from agere, to do). One who undertakes p transact some business, or to manage some affair, for another, by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of it. 1 Livermore, Ag. 67; 2 Bouv. Inst. 3. The term is one of a very wide application, and […]
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Officer
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Officer Meaning of Officer The incumbent of an office ; one who is lawfully invested with an office Officer Alternative Definition The incumbent of an […]
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Contractor
One who contracts to supply labor and materials; one who undertakes to perform work for another. Such a person is to be distinguished from an employee in that in relation to a contractor, the person who hires him does not retain the authority to control the means by which the […]
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Stock Options
Stock Options Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)The The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Stock Options in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Right to purchase or sell a specified number of shares of stock at specified […]
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Pension
Formerly, the term referred only to gratuities paid by the government in recognition of past services in the Army or Navy. Dismukes v United States , 297 U.S. 167,56 S. Ct. 400, 80 L. Ed. 561. regular allowances paid to an individual by the government in consideration of services […]
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Wage
Formerly, it meant the giving of security for the performance of anything. Also, to plead. Also see Wages.
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Mandated Reporters
Child abuse and neglectAny physician or surgeon licensed under the provisions of chapter 370, any resident physician or intern in any hospital in this state, whether or not so licensed, any registered nurse, school principal, school guidance counselor, school paraprofessional, school coach,…
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Just Cause
In the law of master and servant, the term means some substantial shortcoming on the part of the employee which is detrimental to the employer’s interest which the law and a sound public opinion recognize as a good cause for employee’s dismissal. See Colaw v University Civil Service […]