Employment

' Occupation; position involving business; service.

Employ. (1), n.

Originally, the poetical form of employment. (2), V. To engage in one's service; to use as an agent or substitute in transacting business; to commission and intrust with the management of one's affairs. Used with respect to a servant or laborer, equivalent to "hire." 8 ^ O. F. embracer, to clasp in the arms, embrace.

2 4 Bl. Com! 140. See Glbbs v. Dewey, 5 Cow. 505 (1823); State V. Sales, 3 Nev. 269 (1866); Hawk. PI. Cr. 869. s People V. Lee Wah, 71 Cal. 80 (1886). • Apple V. Crawford County, 105 Pa. 303 (1884); Const. Pa. Art. m, § 13. ' Accent on -teu-.

Gk. emphytetiein, to plant or improve land. • See 3 Bl. Com. 232; Maine, Anc. Law, 289.

Employed.

May refer to any present occupation, but commonly to continuous occupation.' " Employed " in anything imports not only the act of doing it, but also being engaged to do it, being under contract or orders to do it.^ Employe, or employee; employer. " Employe " is from the French, but has become naturalized in our language. Strictly and etymologically it means " a person employed; " but in practice in the French language it ordinarily denotes a person in some official employment. 3 "Employe" is the correlative of "employer." Neither term is restricted to any particular employment or service. " To employ " is to engage or use another as an agent or substitute in transacting business, or the performance of some service, it may be skilled labor or the service of the scientist or professional man as well as servile or unskilled manual labor.* "Employe" usually embraces a laborer, servant, or other person occupied in an inferior positioh.5 Applies equally to a person within or without an office, whether a servant or a clerk. An " employee in an of Sce " is a person engaged in the performance of the proper duties of an ol Hce, whether his duties are carried on within or without the walls of the building in which the chief of Bcer transacts his business." The English form employee, though legitimate as conforming to analogy, is not sanctioned by theiisage of good writers.^ See Boycotting; Business; Contractor; Gift; Labor, 1; Neglioenoe; Servant; Sdnday; Trade.