Apprentices and trainees, as long as the training relates to their jobs. Part-time employees and working family members. Members of the Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force, and US Defense Corps of Virginia. Officers and employees of state and local governments, including police, firefighters, sheriffs, deputies, commissioners of tax and revenue, Commonwealth attorneys, circuit court clerks and their employees. Officers of corporations.
Corporate officers can reject coverage for accidents.
They cannot reject coverage for occupational diseases. If corporate officers are not paid salary or wages on a regular basis at an agreed upon amount if they reject coverage under this title pursuant to 65.2-300, and they are no longer counted as employees for jurisdictional purposes. Employees of an independent contractor or sub-contractor who are doing the same kind of work as those who are contracting for the work. Sole proprietors, partners, and others who have elected to be covered by the Workers' Compensation Act. Taxi cab and executive sedan drivers if they are excluded from taxation under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.