GTM provides clients with the following general guideline concerning the rules and regulations of State mandated Workers' Compensation requirements.
GTM Employment Benefits is currently licensed to provide Workers' Compensation services in the following states*: CA, CO, CT, DC, KS, IL, MA, MD, MN, NH, NJ, NY, PA, TX, UT, VA & VT. Please contact GTM Employment Benefits at (888) 432-7972 ext. 7213 for information.
Check your state's Workers' Compensation requirements by selecting the state below in which you employ a domestic worker(s).
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Any domestic worker except part-time babysitters, cleaning persons, harvest help and similar part-time or transient help |
The Alaska Workers' Compensation Act requires each employer having one or more employees in Alaska to obtain workers' compensation insurance, unless the employer has been approved as a self insurer. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
The manner or method by which you choose to insure your workers' compensation liability is your decision. Should you have any questions contact the Workers' Compensation Division at 1-800-528-5166 or (334) 242-2868. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
Since January 1974, Arizona law has required all public and private employers with at least one employee to carry workers’ compensation insurance. The law makes coverage optional for domestic servants, working partners and sole proprietors. |
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Most employers in Arkansas with three or more employees are required by law to have workers’ compensation insurance coverage for their employees. There are exceptions to the three-or-more requirement, so employers with fewer than three should check with authorities before assuming they do not fall under the workers’ compensation laws. Employers in doubt may contact their agent or the commission’s Information Officer, its Operations/Compliance Division, or the Legal Advisor Division. |
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Any domestic worker – including one who cares for and supervises children – employed 52 or more hours, or who earned $100 or more, during 90 calendar days immediately preceding date of injury or last employment exposing such worker to the hazards of an occupational disease. Excludes workers employed by a parent, spouse or child. |
Required in every work situation, normally covered under your owners insurance, if not you can obtain a policy through the CA State Fund. The annual premium is based on the annual salary the employee makes, and then they monitor ALL the tax filings each quarter and then at the end of the year they will do a audit to make sure the client paid the correct premium. |
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Any domestic worker employed 40 or more hours per week or five or more days per week by one employer. |
All public and private employers in Colorado, with limited exceptions, must provide workers' compensation coverage for their employees if one or more full or part-time persons are employed. A person hired to perform services for pay is presumed by law to be an employee. This includes all persons elected or appointed to public sector service and all persons appointed or hired by private employers for remuneration. There are a few exemptions to this definition. |
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Any domestic worker employed 26 hours or more per week by one employer. |
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Any domestic worker who earns $750 or more in any three month period from a single private home or household. |
Employers with one or more employees are required to carry workers' compensation insurance. Employers may not charge an employee any portion of the premium or expense of carrying workers' compensation insurance. Workers' Compensation benefits have certain entitlement requirements which must be met in order to receive benefits. The requirements are established by law in Title 19, Delaware Code and are administered by the Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Affairs, office of Workers' Compensation. Workers considered to be independent contractors, rather than employees, are not covered. |
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Domestic workers employed by the same employer at least 240 hours during a calendar quarter. |
You are required to have Workers’ Compensation insurance coverage if you have 1 or more employees. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage. |
If you are in an industry, other than construction, and have four (4) or more employees, full-time or part-time, you are required to carry workers' compensation coverage (an exempted corporate officer does not count as an employee). |
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Every employer, individual, firm, association, or corporation, regularly employing three or more persons, part-time or full-time, shall provide workers' compensation insurance coverage. Exempted officers of corporations or exempted members of limited liability companies shall not reduce the number of employees for this purpose. |
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Any worker employed solely for personal, family or household purposes whose wages are $225 or more during the calendar quarter and during each completed calendar quarter of the preceding 12 month period. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
Employers with one or more full-time, part-time, seasonal, or occasional employees are required to maintain a workers’ compensation policy unless specifically exempt from the law. Workers’ Compensation is required to be in place when the first employee is hired. Employment that may be exempt from required coverage includes: Household domestic service, Employment of family members living in the employer’s household (applies only to sole proprietorships) |
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Any worker or workers employed for a total of 40 or more hours per week for a period of 13 or more weeks during a calendar year by any household or residence. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage. |
All Indiana public and private employer-employee relationships (with a few exceptions, discussed below) are covered by the Worker's Compensation and Occupational Diseases Acts. It does not matter how many workers are employed in a business; all employees must be covered. |
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Any employee working in or about a private dwelling who is not a regular household member, whose earnings are $1,500 or more during the 12 consecutive months prior to an injury. |
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Any domestic worker if the employer had a total gross payroll for the preceding year of $10,000 or more for all workers under his employ |
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Two or more domestic workers regularly employed in a private home 40 or more hours a week. (Law has no numerical exemption for general employments.) |
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No specific provisions for domestic employers. |
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No specific provisions for domestic employers. |
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Any domestic worker whose earnings are $1000 or more in any calendar quarter from a private household. Domestic servants and their employers jointly may elect for the employee to be covered, even if the individual does not meet the earnings requirement. |
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Domestic workers employed 16 or more hours per week by an employer. |
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Any household domestic worker except those employed for less than 35 hours per week for 13 weeks or longer during the preceding 52 weeks. |
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Household workers are excluded from the workers’ compensation coverage requirement. This includes a domestic, repairer, grounds keeper, or maintenance worker at a private household who earns less than $1,000 cash during a quarter of the year unless more than $1,000 was earned in any quarter of the previous year. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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All household employers in NH must obtain coverage for any PT or FT domestic employee. |
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All household employers in NJ must obtain coverage for any PT or FT domestic employee. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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Any domestic worker employed (other than those employed on a farm) by the same employer for a minimum of 40 hours per week. |
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Compulsory coverage. Covers domestic service if employer employs more than 10 full-time non-seasonal laborers. |
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Workers’ Compensation is not mandatory for household domestic workers. |
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Any domestic worker who earns $160 or more in any calendar quarter from one employer. |
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Any person who is employed as a domestic servant or as a casual worker in and about a private home or household, which private home or household had a gross annual payroll in the preceding calendar year of more than $10,000 for such workers. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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Domestic workers are exempt. Voluntary coverage. |
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Domestic workers are exempt. Voluntary coverage. |
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Covers domestic service if employer employs four or more employees. |
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Any domestic worker employed more than 20 hours in any calendar week for more than 6 weeks in any 3 week period. |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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Compulsory Coverage. Any domestic worker employed for 40 or more hours per week by the same employer. |
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Not required for private households. Voluntary coverage. |
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Domestic employees are excluded. Voluntary coverage. |
Virginia law requires every employer who regularly employs three or more full-time or part-time employees to purchase and maintain workers' compensation insurance. Employers with fewer than three employees may voluntarily come under the Act. |
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Compulsory coverage Two or more domestic workers if regularly employed in a private home for 40 or more hours per week. (Law has no numerical exemption for general employments.) |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage |
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Permits employers to provide voluntary coverage. |
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Domestic employees are excluded. Voluntary coverage |
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