Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 15-24 - Reporting of New Hires

• Compensation: means payment owed by the employer for:

  (i)  Labor or services rendered by an employee; or

  (ii)  Benefits including, but not limited to, vacation, holiday, and sick leave, and severance payments which are due an employee under an agreement with the employer or under a policy of the employer. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-24-3

• 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.
• Days: means calendar days. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-24-3
• Department: means the department of administration, division of taxation, or its designee. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-24-3
• Employee: means a natural person who performs labor in this state and is employed by an employer in this state for compensation and for whom the employer withholds federal or state income tax from the employee's compensation. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-24-3
• Employer: means a person or entity doing business in this state who engages an employee for compensation and for whom the employer withholds federal or state tax liabilities from the employee's compensation. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-24-3
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Natural person: means an individual and not a corporation, government, business trust, estate, partnership, or other legal entity, however organized. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-24-3
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Rehire: means the first day for which an employee is owed compensation by the employer following a termination of employment lasting a minimum of sixty (60) days. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-24-3
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8