{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-labor-and-employment-5-101","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Labor and Employment § 5–101","heading":"","body":"(a) In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.\n(b) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.\n(c) (1) “Employee” means, except as provided in § 5–401 of this title, an individual whom an employer employs, for a wage or other compensation, in the business of the employer.\n(2) “Employee” includes:\n(i) an individual whom a public body employs;\n(ii) an individual who is licensed as a taxicab driver and leases or rents a taxicab from a person who operates or owns a taxicab business in Baltimore City;\n(iii) an individual who is employed for part–time or temporary help by a public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help to another public body or person; and\n(iv) an individual who performs work for a public body or person to whom the individual is provided by another public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help.\n(d) (1) “Employer” means:\n(i) except as provided in § 5–401 of this title, a person who is engaged in commerce, industry, trade, or other business in the State and employs at least one employee in that business; or\n(ii) a public body.\n(2) “Employer” includes:\n(i) a person who operates or owns a taxicab business in Baltimore City and leases or rents a taxicab to a licensed taxicab driver, to provide services to the public;\n(ii) a public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help to another public body or person; and\n(iii) a public body or person who contracts directly with another public body or person who engages in a business that directly employs individuals to provide part–time or temporary help to another public body or person.\n(e) “Occupational safety and health standard” means a regulation that requires:\n(1) a condition that is reasonably appropriate or necessary to make employment and places of employment safe and healthful; or\n(2) the adoption or use of a means, method, operation, practice, or process that is reasonably appropriate or necessary to make employment and places of employment safe and healthful.\n(f) “Person” includes a successor.\n(g) “Place of employment” means a place in or about which an employee is allowed to work.\n(h) “Public body” means:\n(1) a governmental unit;\n(2) a public or quasi–public corporation of the State;\n(3) a school district in the State or any unit of the district; or\n(4) a special district in the State or any unit of the district.\n(i) (1) “Workplace violence” means an act of violence or a threat of violence that occurs at a place of employment and that is not a lawful act of self–defense or defense of another person.\n(2) “Workplace violence” includes, regardless of whether the employee is physically or psychologically injured:\n(i) using or threatening to use physical force against an employee; or\n(ii) an incident involving the use of or threatening the use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon.","path":["Article - Labor and Employment"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gle\u0026section=5-101","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:59:38Z","sha256":"7297cca09622ba8464da7cbf3719ceaf62be76d3c6968177eb2f948d0810a1f5","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-labor-and-employment-4-603","next":"us-md/md.-code-labor-and-employment-5-102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}