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93x30: Government Employee Status

October 22, 1993

Usually federal compensation creates government employment status; however, commission members are not government employees where the statute establishing the commission states that its members shall not be considered employees.  That the members are federally appointed for a term and counsel on policy does not alone create an employment status.

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