2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 24 - Labor
Chapter 3 - Labor Relations
§ 62. Definitions
Universal Citation: V.I. Code tit. 24, § 62 (2019)
- As used in this chapter—
- “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Labor; “employee” includes any employee or any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment, but does not include any individual employed as an agricultural laborer or as a seaman or engaged in the catching, taking or selling of any fresh fish, shellfish or crustacea, or in domestic service of any family or person at his home, or any individual employed by his parent or spouse, or an individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious or non-profit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary basis or any individual employed in a bonafide position in an executive or professional capacity; or any alien temporarily admitted to the Virgin Islands, except one who has a currently valid authorization to work for his employer, but does not include any person who has been employed by an employer for less than six (6) calendar months or is a “public employee” as defined in chapter 14 of this title; “employer” includes any person acting in the interest of an employer directly or indirectly that has employed five (5) or more employees for each working day in each of the twenty (20) or more calendar weeks in the two (2) year period preceding a discharge, but not a “public employer” as defined in chapter 14 of this title; “employer” includes any person acting in the interest of an employer directly or indirectly that has employed five (5) or more employees for each working day in each of the twenty (20) or more calendar weeks in the two (2) year period preceding a discharge, but not a “public employer” as defined in chapter 14 of this title; “labor dispute” includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee; “labor organization” means any organization of any kind or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work; “representative” includes any individual or labor organization; and “unfair labor practice” means any unfair labor practice listed in this chapter.
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