339.1001 Definitions.
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339.1001 Definitions.
Sec. 1001.
As used in this article:
(a)"Client" means a person who engages the services of a personnel agency.
(b)"Consulting agent" means the individual designated by a type B personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type B personnel agency.
(c)"Employee" means a person performing work or service for compensation.
(d)"Employer" means a person employing or seeking to employ a person for compensation.
(e)"Employment agent" means the individual designated by a type A personnel agency who is responsible for the general management of that type A personnel agency.
(f)"Fee" means any direct or indirect compensation.
(g)"Job order" means an oral or written notification by an employer to a personnel agency that a job opening exists for which the employer wishes to find an employee and includes all information regarding the job.
(h)"Personnel agency" means a type A personnel agency or a type B personnel agency, or both.
(i)"Registration fee" means a fee other than the fee specified in a contract, which a personnel agency requires or accepts from a client prior to execution of a contract.
(j)"Resume writing service" means a person who provides professional assistance to an applicant in compiling a resume by assembling relevant data, organizing it in writing, and providing copies to the applicant for a fee.
(k)"Type A personnel agency" means a person who is engaged in the business or profession of serving, assisting, or in any way aiding a client seeking employment or making basic career decisions, who puts a client in direct contact with employers, and who receives a fee from the client for the services rendered or offered to be rendered.
(l)"Type B personnel agency" means a person who is engaged in the business or profession of serving, assisting, or in any way aiding or consulting with a client to make basic career decisions and who receives a fee from the client for the services rendered or offered to be rendered.
History: 1980, Act 299, Imd. Eff. Oct. 21, 1980 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 253, Imd. Eff. Nov. 19, 1992
Compiler's Notes: For transfer of powers and duties of certain occupational functions, boards, and commissions from the Department of Licensing and Regulation to the Department of Commerce, see E.R.O. No. 1991-9, compiled at MCL 338.3501 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
Popular Name: Act 299