41 U.S.C. § 357 : US Code - Section 357: Definitions

Search 41 U.S.C. § 357 : US Code - Section 357: Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter -
(a) "Secretary" means Secretary of Labor.
(b) The term "service employee" means any person engaged in the
performance of a contract entered into by the United States and
not exempted under section 356 of this title, whether negotiated
or advertised, the principal purpose of which is to furnish
services in the United States (other than any person employed in
a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity,
as those terms are defined in part 541 of title 29, Code of
Federal Regulations, as of July 30, 1976, and any subsequent
revision of those regulations); and shall include all such
persons regardless of any contractual relationship that may be
alleged to exist between a contractor or subcontractor and such
persons.
(c) The term "compensation" means any of the payments or fringe
benefits described in section 351 of this title.
(d) The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense
shall include any State of the United States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Outer Continental
Shelf lands as defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act,
American Samoa, Guam, Wake Island, Eniwetok Atoll, Kwajalein
Atoll, Johnston Island, and Canton Island, but shall not include
any other territory under the jurisdiction of the United States
or any United States base or possession within a foreign country.