(a) Except as otherwise indicated, this chapter shall apply to the employer and employee in any employment in which 1 or more employees are engaged.

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Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2306

  • Department: means the Department of Labor. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
  • Employee: means every person in service of any corporation (private, public, municipal or quasi-public), association, firm or person, excepting those employees excluded by this subchapter, under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or performing services for a valuable consideration, excluding spouse and minor children of a farm employer unless the spouse or minor child is a bona fide employee of a farm employer and is named in an endorsement to the farm employer's contract of insurance, and excluding any person whose employment is casual and not in the regular course of the trade, business, profession or occupation of his or her employer, and not including persons to whom articles or materials are furnished or repaired, or adopted for sale in the worker's own home, or on the premises not under the control or management of the employer. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301
  • Employer: includes all those who employ others unless they are excluded from the application of this chapter by any provision of this subchapter, and if the employer is insured, the term shall include the insurer as far as practicable; employer shall also include the governing body for which employable relief recipients are assigned work under §§ 901-905 of Title 31. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 2301

(b) In all cases where an employer not subject to this chapter carries insurance to insure the payment of compensation to the employees, then in any and all such cases such employer and employees shall come under this chapter, and all of the provisions thereof, with the same force and effect as in cases where an employer is subject to this chapter.

(c) Every employer shall keep a summary of this chapter, approved by the Department, and any applicable regulations published thereunder or a summary thereof, approved by the Department, posted in a conspicuous and accessible location in or about the premises or place of employment and where employees normally pass. Employers shall be furnished copies by the Department on request without charge.

Code 1915, § ?3193vv; 29 Del. Laws, c. 233; 33 Del. Laws, c. 206, § ?3; 35 Del. Laws, c. 193, § ?3; 36 Del. Laws, c. 253; Code 1935, § ?6118; 41 Del. Laws, c. 243; 43 Del. Laws, c. 269, § ?11; 19 Del. C. 1953, § ?2306; 59 Del. Laws, c. 454, § ?3; 70 Del. Laws, c. 172, § ?4; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 73 Del. Laws, c. 105, § ?3;