Michigan Laws 339.1001 – Definitions
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As used in this article:
(a) “Client” means a person who engages the services of a personnel agency.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 339.1001
- Client: means a person who engages the services of a personnel agency. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Employee: means a person performing work or service for compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
- Employer: means a person employing or seeking to employ a person for compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
- Fee: means any direct or indirect compensation. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
- in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
- Personnel agency: means a type A personnel agency or a type B personnel agency, or both. See Michigan Laws 339.1001
(b) “Consulting agent” means the individual designated by a type B personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type B personnel agency.
(c) “Employee” means a person performing work or service for compensation.
(d) “Employer” means a person employing or seeking to employ a person for compensation.
(e) “Employment agent” means the individual designated by a type A personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type A personnel agency.
(f) “Fee” means any direct or indirect compensation.
(g) “Job order” means an oral or written notification by an employer to a personnel agency that a job opening exists for which the employer wishes to find an employee and includes all information regarding the job.
(h) “Personnel agency” means a type A personnel agency or a type B personnel agency, or both.
(i) “Registration fee” means a fee other than the fee specified in a contract, which a personnel agency requires or accepts from a client prior to execution of a contract.
(j) “Resume writing service” means a person who provides professional assistance to an applicant in compiling a resume by assembling relevant data, organizing it in writing, and providing copies to the applicant for a fee.
(k) “Type A personnel agency” means a person who is engaged in the business or profession of serving, assisting, or in any way aiding a client seeking employment or making basic career decisions, who puts a client in direct contact with employers, and who receives a fee from the client for the services rendered or offered to be rendered.
(l) “Type B personnel agency” means a person who is engaged in the business or profession of serving, assisting, or in any way aiding or consulting with a client to make basic career decisions and who receives a fee from the client for the services rendered or offered to be rendered.