{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-339.1001","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.1001","heading":"Definitions.","body":"Sec. 1001.\n\nAs used in this article:\n\n\"Client\" means a person who engages the services of a personnel agency.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"Employee\" means a person performing work or service for compensation.\n\n\"Employer\" means a person employing or seeking to employ a person for compensation.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"Fee\" means any direct or indirect compensation.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"Personnel agency\" means a type A personnel agency or a type B personnel agency, or both.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"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.\n\n\"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.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 339","Act Act-299-of-1980"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-339-1001","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"e0c63bd4a678f4a7097bd1da624ce0ee19426cdc51b9fd5b6a403044cc2c4edb","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-338.900","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-339.1002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}