                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMPLOYING UNIT (§ 60.2-211)

A. &#8220;Employing unit&#8221; means any of the following which has or had in
its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this
Commonwealth:

   1. Any individual or type of organization, including the state government and
   its instrumentalities;

   2. Any of the political subdivisions of this Commonwealth and their
   instrumentalities;

   3. Any instrumentalities wholly owned (i) by this Commonwealth and one or more
   political subdivisions, (ii) by a combination of political subdivisions or
   (iii) by any of the foregoing and one or more other states or their political
   subdivisions;

   4. Any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance
   company or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee
   in bankruptcy, trustee or successor thereof; or

   5. The legal representative of a deceased person.

B. All individuals performing services within this Commonwealth for any
employing unit which maintains two or more separate establishments within this
Commonwealth shall be deemed to be employed by a single employing unit for all
the purposes of this title. Whenever any employing unit contracts with any
person for any service which is a part of such employing unit&#8217;s usual
trade, occupation, profession or business, that employing unit shall be deemed
to employ all individuals employed by such person for such service unless such
person performs service or is in fact actually available to perform service for
anyone who may wish to contract with him and is also found to be engaged in an
independently established trade, occupation, profession or business. 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 such
employing unit for all the purposes of this title, whether such individual was
hired or paid directly by such employing unit or by such agent or employee,
provided the employing unit had actual or constructive knowledge of such work.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 60-13; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-13; 1974, cc. 466, 660;
1977, c. 330; 1986, c. 480.