[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 20, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 20CFR203.1]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 203_EMPLOYEES UNDER THE ACT--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  203.1  Statutory provisions.









Sec.

203.1 Statutory provisions.

203.2 General definition of employee.

203.3 When an individual is performing service for an employer.

203.4 When service is compensated.

203.5 Service outside the United States.

203.6 Age, citizenship, and other factors.

203.7 Local lodge employee.



    Authority: Secs. 1, 10, 50 Stat. 307, as amended, 314 as amended; 45 

U.S.C. 228a, 228j, unless otherwise noted.



    Source: 12 FR 1133, Feb. 19, 1947, unless otherwise noted.





    The term ``employee'' means (1) any individual in the service of one 

or more employers for compensation, (2) any individual who is in the 

employment relation to one or more employers, and (3) an employee 

representative. The term ``employee'' shall include an employee of a 

local lodge or division defined as an employer in sub-section (a) only 

if he was in the service of or in the employment relation to a carrier 

on or after the enactment date. The term ``employee representative'' 

means any officer or official representative of a railway labor 

organization other than a labor organization included in the term 

``employer'' as defined in section 1(a) who before or after the 

enactment date was in the service of an employer as defined in section 

1(a) and who is duly authorized and designated to represent employees in 

accordance with the Railway Labor Act, as amended, and any individual 

who is regularly assigned to or regularly employed by such officer or 

official representative in connection with the duties of his office.

    The term ``employee'' shall not include any individual while such 

individual is engaged in the physical operations consisting of the 

mining of coal, the preparation of coal, the handling (other than 

movement by rail with standard railroad locomotives) of coal



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not beyond the mine tipple, or the loading of coal at the tipple.

    An individual is in the service of an employer whether his service 

is rendered within or without the United States if (i) he is subject to 

the continuing authority of the employer to supervise and direct the 

manner of rendition of his service, or he is rendering professional or 

technical services and is integrated into the staff of the employer, or 

he is rendering, on the property used in the employer's operations, 

other personal services the rendition of which is integrated into the 

employer's operations, and (ii) he renders such service for 

compensation, or a method of computing the monthly compensation for such 

service is provided in section 3(c): Provided, however, That an 

individual shall be deemed to be in the service of an employer, other 

than a local lodge or division or a general committee of a railway-

labor-organization employer, not conducting the principal part of its 

business in the United States only when he is rendering service to it in 

the United States; and an individual shall be deemed to be in the 

service of such a local lodge or division only if (1) all, or 

substantially all, the individuals constituting its membership are 

employees of an employer conducting the principal part of its business 

in the United States; or (2) the headquarters of such local lodge or 

division is located in the United States; and an individual shall be 

deemed to be in the service of such a general committee only if (1) he 

is representing a local lodge or division described in clauses (1) or 

(2) immediately above; or (2) all, or substantially all, the individuals 

represented by it are employees of an employer conducting the principal 

part of its business in the United States; or (3) he acts in the 

capacity of a general chairman or an assistant general chairman of a 

general committee which represents individuals rendering service in the 

United States to an employer, but in such case if his office or 

headquarters is not located in the United States and the individuals 

represented by such general committee are employees of an employer not 

conducting the principal part of its business in the United States, only 

such proportion of the remuneration for such service shall be regarded 

as compensation as the proportion which the mileage in the United States 

under the jurisdiction of such general committee bears to the total 

mileage under its jurisdiction, unless such mileage formula is 

inapplicable in which case the Board may prescribe such other formula as 

it finds to be equitable, and if the application of such mileage 

formula, or such other formula as the Board may prescribe, would result 

in the compensation of the individual being less than 10 per centum of 

his remuneration for such service no part of such remuneration shall be 

regarded as compensation: Provided further, That an individual not a 

citizen or resident of the United States shall not be deemed to be in 

the service of an employer when rendering service outside the United 

States to an employer who is required under the laws applicable in the 

place where the service is rendered to employ therein, in whole or in 

part, citizens or residents thereof; and the laws applicable on August 

29, 1935, in the place where the service is rendered shall be deemed to 

have been applicable there at all times prior to that date.