Employment defined
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Manuel v. Toner Plus, Inc. (2012)
Most recently applied in Wheeler v. Cinna Bakers LLC (May 2015)
Source: SL 1936 (SS), ch 3, § 19; SDC 1939, § 17.0802 (7) (a); SL 1939, ch 86, § 1; SL 1941, ch 82, § 2; SL 1968, ch 87; SL 1971, ch 276, § 10; SL 2008, ch 277, § 8.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The term, employment, means any service performed, including service in interstate commerce, by:
(1) Any officer of a corporation; or
(2) Any individual who, under the usual common-law rules applicable in determining the employer-employee relationship has the status of an employee.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.