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2016 Vermont Statutes
Title 21 - Labor
Chapter 25 - Employers' Health Care Fund Contribution
§ 2002 Definitions

Universal Citation:
21 V.S.A. § 2002
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§ 2002. Definitions

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Employee" means an individual over the age of majority employed full-time or part-time by an employer to perform services in this State.

(2) "Employer" means a person who is required under 32 V.S.A. chapter 151, subchapter 4 to withhold income taxes from payments of income with respect to services, but shall not include the government of the United States.

(3) "Full-time equivalent" or "FTE" means the number of employees expressed as the number of employee hours worked during a calendar quarter divided by 520. "Full-time equivalent" shall not include any employee hours attributable to a seasonal employee or part-time employee of an employer who offers health care coverage to all of its regular full-time employees, provided that the seasonal employee or part-time employee has health care coverage under either a private or any public plan except VHAP or Medicaid.

(4) "Seasonal employee" means an employee who:

(A) works for an employer for 20 weeks or fewer in a calendar year; and

(B) works in a job scheduled to last 20 weeks or fewer.

(5) "Uncovered employee" means:

(A) an employee of an employer who does not offer to pay any part of the cost of health care coverage for its employees;

(B) an employee who is not eligible for health care coverage offered by an employer to any other employees; or

(C) an employee who is offered and is eligible for coverage by the employer but elects not to accept the coverage and:

(i) is enrolled in Medicaid;

(ii) has no other health care coverage under either a private or public plan except Medicaid; or

(iii) has purchased health insurance coverage as an individual through the Vermont Health Benefit Exchange.

(6) "Part-time employee" shall mean an employee who works for an employer for fewer than 30 hours a week. (Added 2005, No. 191 (Adj. Sess.), § 34, eff. April 1, 2007; amended 2007, No. 70, § 27; 2013, No. 54, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2014; 2013, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 24.)

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