CASUAL EMPLOYMENT - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CASUAL EMPLOYMENT? Definition of CASUAL EMPLOYMENT in Black's Law Dictionary – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.

Employment at uncertain times or irregular intervals. Johnson v. Wisconsin Lumber & Supply Co., 203 Wis. 304, 234 N.W. 506, 507, 72 A.L.R. 1279; employment by chance, fortuitously, and for no fixed time, Boyd v. Philmont Country Club, 129 Pa.Super. 135, 195 A. 156, 157, 158; employment casual and not in usual course of trade, business, occupation or profession of employer. Kunkler v. Mauck, 108 Ind.App. 98, 27 N.E.2d 97, 99. Employment for short time and limited and temporary purpose, Moore v. Clarke, 171 Md. 39, 187 A. 887, 894, 107 A.L.R. 924; fortuitous and irregular employment. McCabe v. Timothy Shanahan & Son, 147 Pa.Super. 491, 24 A.2d 16, 18; occasional, irregular or, incidental employment, Maguire v. Valley Forge Military Academy, 116 Pa.Super. 495, 176 A. 865, 867.

The test is the nature of the work or an analysis of the contract of employment. State Farm Mut. Automobile Ins. Co. v. Brooks, D.C.Mo., 43 F.Supp. 870, 872; or whether the employment is necessary to carry out the employer's business in usual way. Thompson v. G. Correale & Sons, 130 N.J.L. 431, 33 A.2d 578, 579; or the scope of the contract of employment or the continuity of employment. Cochrane v. William Penn Hotel, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., Intervener, 140 Pa.Super. 323, 13 A.2d 875, 877; "Casual" means occasional; incidental; happening at uncertain times; not stated or regular; its antonyms being regular;
systematic; periodic; certain, Pooler's Case, 122 Me. 11, 118 A. 590, 591; Dial v. Coleman's Lunch, 217 Iowa, 945, 251 N.W. 33; happening or coming to pass without design and without being foreseen or expected, accidental, fortuitous, coming by chance, coming without regularity, Tokash v. General Baking Co., 349 Mo. 767, 163 S.W.2d 554, 556; The term refers to nature of employment and not to length. Parks v. E. M. Carmell Co., 168 Tenn. 385, 79 S.W.2d 285, 287.

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