---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 48.640"
title: "38"
number: "48.640"
heading: "Employee."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/48.640"
---

# §48.640. Employee.

- (a) Employee means the employee of a recipient directly engaged in the performance of work under the award, including—
  - (1) All direct charge employees;
  - (2) All indirect charge employees, unless their impact or involvement in the performance of work under the award is insignificant to the performance of the award; and
  - (3) Temporary personnel and consultants who are directly engaged in the performance of work under the award and who are on the recipient's payroll.
- (b) This definition does not include workers not on the payroll of the recipient (e.g., volunteers, even if used to meet a matching requirement; consultants or independent contractors not on the payroll; or employees of subrecipients or subcontractors in covered workplaces).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 701, et seq.; 38 U.S.C 501

### Source

Source: 68 FR 66557, 66619, 66620, Nov. 26, 2003, unless otherwise noted.