(a) “Employing unit” means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, limited liability company or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee or successor of the individual or organization, or the legal representative of a deceased person, that has or subsequent to January 1, 1935, had, in its employ one (1) or more individuals performing services for the person or entity within this state; or the state, or any department, political subdivision, county or municipality of the state that has in its employ one (1) or more individuals performing services for it within this state.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 50-7-206

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: has the meaning given that term by §. See Tennessee Code 50-7-403
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(b) All individuals performing services within this state for any employing unit that maintains two (2) or more separate establishments within this state shall be deemed to be employed by a single employing unit for all the purposes of this chapter.
(c) Each individual employed to perform or to assist in performing the work of any agent or employee of an employing unit shall be deemed to be employed by the employing unit for all the purposes of this chapter, whether the individual was hired or paid directly by the employing unit or by the agent or employee; provided, that the employing unit had actual or constructive knowledge of the performance of the work.
(d)Common Paymaster. For purposes of this chapter, if two (2) or more related corporations concurrently employ the same individual and compensate the individual through a common paymaster that is one of the corporations, each corporation shall be considered to have paid as remuneration to the individual only the amounts actually disbursed by it to the individual and shall not be considered to have paid as remuneration to the individual amounts actually disbursed to the individual by another of the corporations.
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