Professional Employee Law and Legal Definition
Professional Employee is a person hired in his or her professional capacity.
29 USCS § 152 defines a professional employee as:
“any employee engaged in work; i) predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work; ii) involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance; iii) of such a character that the output produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time; iv) requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or from an apprenticeship or from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes; or
any employee, who (i) has completed the courses of specialized intellectual instruction and study described in clause (iv) of paragraph (a), and (ii) is performing related work under the supervision of a professional person to qualify himself to become a professional employee as defined in paragraph (a).”
Legal Definition list
- Professional Development
- Professional Degree [Education]
- Professional Corporations
- Professional Certification
- Professional Boxing Safety Act
- Professional Employee
- Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
- Professional Engineer(PE)
- Professional Guardian
- Professional Liability Insurance
- Professional Model Product
Related Legal Terms
- Accountants Professional Liability Insurance
- Accounting Professional Standards
- Actuarial Experience [Employee Retirement]
- Actuarial Services [Employee Retirement]
- Administrative Employee
- Administrator of an Employee Benefit Plan
- Affected Employees
- Alien Employees
- Allied Health Professionals
- Allotment from Federal Employee
