Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 21 Sec. 620

  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Labor or the Commissioner's designee. See
  • Employer: includes any body of persons, corporate or unincorporated, public or private, and the legal representative of a deceased employer, and includes the owner or lessee of premises or other person who is virtually the proprietor or operator of the business there carried on, but who, by reason of there being an independent contractor or for any other reason, is not the direct employer of the workers there employed. See
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See

§ 620. Worker hired outside State

If a worker who has been hired outside this State is injured while engaged in his or her employer‘s business and is entitled to compensation for such injury under the law of the state where he or she was hired, he or she shall be entitled to enforce against his or her employer his or her rights in this State, if his or her rights are such that they can be reasonably determined and dealt with by the Commissioner and the court in this State. (Amended 1981, No. 165 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)