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V.I. Code tit. 24, § 161 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 7 - Public Employment Service|§ 161. Importation of alien workers; work agreements; wage rates

 (a) Any employer who desires to import alien workers for employment shall first notify the Virgin Islands Employment Service as to the unavailability of occupationally qualified residents, the number of alien workers required, and the occupational classification of such workers. The Virgin Islands Employment Service shall thereupon investigate the circumstances and shall cause to be advertised throughout the Virgin Islands, by whatever means it shall determine to be feasible, the existence of the vacancies which the employer desires to fill and the prevailing wage rates for each occupation as determined by the Commissioner of Labor. Upon the expiration of ten days after the first advertisement by the Employment Service, the said Service finding that there are no occupationally qualified resident workers available to fill all or some of the vacancies advertised, shall issue a clearance for the employment of nonresident workers for the vacancies for which no qualified resident workers are available. (b) The Virgin Islands Employment Service is authorized to require such agreements or conditions as the payment of wages or benefits to nonresident workers as it shall determine to be necessary and consistent with the policy and purposes of this chapter to be executed by the employer; and any such agreement or conditions agreed to by an employer shall be legally enforceable in the courts of the Virgin Islands, upon action taken by an aggrieved employee or on his behalf by the Commissioner of Labor. (c) The Commissioner of Labor shall, after public notice and hearing, determine the prevailing wage rates for laborers, workmen or other persons in occupations in the Virgin Islands in the occupational categories applicable for the purposes of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 162 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 7 - Public Employment Service|§ 162. Notice of vacancy

 Upon receipt of a notice of vacancy for which the employer intends to hire an employee which notice was submitted pursuant to section 303b of Title 27 of this Code, the Director of the Employment Security Agency shall cause such notice to be posted in a public manner.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 201 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 201. Employment agency license required

 It shall be illegal for any person to engage in contracting for domestic help, workmen or employees whose services are to be used outside of the Virgin Islands, in the United States or in any foreign country, without first securing from the Commissioner of Finance a license to operate as an employment agency in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 202 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 202. Application for license; contract forms

 Any person desiring to operate an employment agency shall make application for a license to the Commissioner of Finance and submit for his approval all contract forms to be used in contracting for the services of persons seeking employment. Such forms after approval can not be altered, changed or amended without the approval of the Commissioner of Finance.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 203 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 203. Issuance of license

 Upon payment of a license fee of $50, to be deposited in the treasury of the Virgin Islands, and upon approval of the contract forms to be used, the Commissioner of Finance shall issue to the applicant a license to operate an employment agency.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 204 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 204. Required provisions of contract forms

 The Commissioner of Finance shall not approve contract forms to be used for the purpose of contracting for labor to be employed outside the Virgin Islands unless the contracts set forth the following provisions: (1) the total payments for the services of the employment agency shall not exceed 10% of the first 3 months' earnings, provided that no more than a total of $50 can be collected from any one person, fifty per cent of which shall be borne by the employer. (2) the employee shall be guaranteed return expenses to the point of departure at any time during the first year of employment if the conditions of employment offered in the employment contract are not adhered to. (3) conditions of employment and wages shall not be inferior in any respect to the minimum conditions of employment and wages offered for similar work in the locality in which the employee contracts to work, and in no case less favorable in any respect than similar conditions in the Virgin Islands. (4) the contract shall contain an accurate description of the work to be performed and all pertinent information concerning the job. The employment agency shall fully explain to the employee all the conditions stipulated in the contract.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 205 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 205. Bonds of employment agency

 Bonds or other security shall be posted by the employment agency in such amounts as may be required by the Commissioner of Finance from time to time to guarantee the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 206 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 206. Breach of employment contract

 Any employee covered by this chapter shall communicate to the Commissioner of Finance any breach of his or her employment contract. The Commissioner of Finance shall immediately investigate the matter and take whatever action he deems necessary to correct or remedy the situation.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 207 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 207. Information and records

 An employment agency contracting the services of workmen or employees outside the Virgin Islands, shall furnish all information or records to the Commissioner of Finance which he requires.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 208 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 208. Age limits

 Contracting for the services of minors under 16 and persons over 60 years of age is absolutely prohibited.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 209 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 209. Revocation or suspension of license

 The Commissioner of Finance may suspend or revoke any employment agency license for gross or wilful violation of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 210 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 9 - Employment Agencies; Contracts for Work Outside the Virgin Islands|§ 210. Penalties

 Whoever fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than $500.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 221 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 221. Definitions

 When used in this chapter the term, (1) “Apprentice” means a worker at least 16 years of age, except where a higher minimum age standard is otherwise fixed by law, who is employed to learn an apprenticeable occupation, as provided in the regulations authorized to be promulgated pursuant to section 230(g). (2) “Apprentice program” means a plan containing terms and conditions for the qualifications, recruitment, selection, employment and training of apprentices, including such matters as the requirement for a written apprenticeship agreement, as provided in the regulations authorized to be promulgated pursuant to section 230(g) and under title 29 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 30. (3) “Federal Purposes” includes any federal contract, grant, agreement or arrangement dealing with apprenticeship; and any federal, financial or other assistance, benefit, privilege, contribution, allowance, exemption, preference or right pertaining to apprenticeship. (4) “Registration of an apprenticeship program” means the acceptance and recording of such program by the Virgin Islands Department of Labor, as meeting the basic standards and requirements for approval of such programs for Federal Purposes. Approval is evidenced by a Certificate of Registration. (5) “Sponsor” means any person, association, committee, or organization operating an apprenticeship program and in whose name the program is registered and approved. (6) “State” includes the Virgin Islands for Federal Purposes. (7) “State Apprenticeship Agency” means the Virgin Islands Department of Labor which has been properly authorized by the federal Office of Apprenticeship to register and oversee apprenticeship programs and agreements for Federal Purposes, and which has responsibility and accountability for apprenticeship within the Virgin Islands. (8) “State Apprenticeship Council” means the entity established in section 222 to provide advice and guidance on the operation to the Virgin Islands Department of Labor in its roles as State Apprenticeship Agency and as State Registration Agency.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 222 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 222. State Apprenticeship Council

 The State Apprenticeship Council is established in the Department of Labor and is composed of nine members appointed by the Commissioner of Labor. Of the nine members appointed, two members must be selected from the Virgin Islands Department of Labor, one of whom must be the Department’s legal counsel; two members must be selected from the Virgin Islands Board of Career and Technical Education. Of the private-sector members, two must be persons who represent the interests of workers; two must be persons who represent the interests of employers, and one must be a person who is familiar with apprenticeable occupations.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 223 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 223. Term of Council members

 (a) Public-sector members shall serve for the duration of their term of office. (b) Private-sector members shall serve a term of three years. However, the initial two persons appointed who represent the interests of workers shall serve an initial term of three years. The initial two persons appointed who represent the interest of employers shall serve an initial term of three years. The initial person appointed for the person's knowledge of apprenticeable occupations shall serve an initial term of two years.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 224 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 224. Interim appointments

 Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term of his predecessor, shall be appointed for the unexpired portion of said term, and shall hold office until his successor has been appointed and has qualified.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 225 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 225. Administration of Council

 The Council shall annually elect a Chairman and a Secretary from among its membership. The Council shall meet as frequently as considered necessary by a majority of the membership. The Secretary shall notify each Council member at least one week in advance of each meeting. A majority of the membership of the Council shall constitute a quorum provided that each group has at least one representative present.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 227 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 227. Removal of Council members

 The Commissioner of Labor may at any time remove any member of the State Apprenticeship Council for cause. Such members as may have been appointed by reason of their official positions in the Government shall cease to be members of the Council upon ceasing in their official positions.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 229 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 229. Apprenticeship Division

 An Apprenticeship Division is hereby created in the Department of Labor. The Governor shall appoint, subject to the laws and regulations applicable to such appointments, the personnel necessary for the operation of the Division.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 231 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 231. Appropriation and expenses

 Funds necessary for carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be provided for by the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, out of any available funds in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands, in the annual budget for the operation of the Government of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 234 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 10 - Apprenticeship Standards|§ 234. Scope of this chapter

 Nothing contained in this chapter or in any rules and regulations or apprenticeship agreements approved hereunder, shall operate to invalidate any provision on apprenticeship contained in any collective report, award, or working contract between employers and workmen, establishing improved apprenticeship standards.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 250 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 250. Legislative findings

 (a) The Legislature of the Virgin Islands hereby finds and declares that the inability of common-law rights and remedies in redressing injuries received by workers has given rise to the need for Worker's Compensation legislation that will afford expeditious compensation to employees or their dependents without regard to fault or negligence of employer or employee. (b) The Legislature also finds that the current Organizational structure and bureaucratic processes of the Government of Virgin Islands: (1) makes the Division of Workmen's Compensation too dependent on the performance of other officials and agencies; (2) causes an inordinate delay in the resolution of a significant number of Workers' Compensation claims; (3) prolongs the economic hardship on claimants that the law was created to prevent. (c) The newly enacted legislation in this chapter by this act is hereby declared to be necessary in the public interest to expeditiously compensate injury or disease which arises out of and in the course of employment without regard to the negligence of the employee or employer.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 251 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 251. Collection and dissemination of administration data

 The Workers' Compensation Administration shall prescribe the form and format for the collection and dissemination of information and data as the Administration of this chapter requires. Provided, however, that in the event the proper format requires the submission of a complete paper document, the administration shall have distributed such blank forms, including forms of notice and claims and forms for processing injury, death, medical, or other attendance or treatment, employment or wage earning as necessary.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 251b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 251b. Powers and Duties of Board of Workers' Compensation Administration

 In addition to the duties as provided in this chapter, the Board of Directors of the Workers' Compensation Administration shall have the following powers and duties: (a) be a policy making body for the administrator of the Insurance Fund; (b) appoint the Administrator of WCA and the Administrator of the Fund; (c) to determine the salaries of the administrator of the WCA and the Administrator of the Fund; (d) to serve as an Appeal Board for decisions rendered by the Administrative Law Judge under this chapter; (e) to hold meetings as may be necessary to carry out its functions in any district as needed; (f) consider and adopt rules regulations governing the WCA and the Fund in order to effectuate the intents and purposes of the system; (g) report to the Governor and the Legislature annually on the activities of the WCA and the Fund, showing among other things, the number of injuries; the cost of claims and Fund balances; (h) as an appeal body, the board is empowered to open, modify, terminate or reinstate awards, taking into account increased disability, restoration or earning power, aggravation of original injury, or any significant change which would justify a change in an award; and (i) nothing in this chapter shall be construed as exempting the Board from any law made specifically applicable to independent instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 251d (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 251d. Appointment of the Fund Administrator and Duties

 The Fund Administrator shall be appointed by the Board of Directors. He shall be responsible for the administrator of the Government Insurance Fund and shall: (1) protect the solvency of the fund by doing actuarial studies; determine premium rates in keeping with costs of administration and payment of claims under this chapter; (2) pay claims upon orders issued by the WCA; (3) plan and improve by electronic means, the speedy payment of claims as provided under this chapter; (4) maintain accounts of income, expenditures and balances; (5) report regularly (quarterly, semi-annually or annually) to the Board of Directors upon demand by the board; (6) manage a staff of employees of the Fund in both districts; (7) prepare budgets of the Government Insurance Fund; (8) certify documents; (9) perform such other duties related to the management of the Government Insurance Fund as provided by this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 253 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 253. Computation of wages

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, wages, for all purposes of this chapter, shall be determined on the basis of earnings of the worker, at the time of injury, from the employer liable to pay compensation, except that, in the case of employees whose tenure at the time of injury was less than one month, the weekly wages of such employees shall be determined by the Administrator on the basis of weekly wages for permanent employment of similar character. Special overtime rates shall not be taken into account unless earned regularly over a period of two months immediately preceding the accident. Compensation for any fractional portion of a week shall be computed on the basis of the working days involved. (b) In the case of part-time workers or workers holding jobs with two or more employers wages, for the purpose of computation of benefits only, shall be the greater of (1) the weekly wages for permanent full-time employment of similar character or (2) the actual total wages received from all of the worker's employers legally required to be insured.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 254 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 254. Amount of compensation

 Every employee who suffers an injury or death under the conditions specified in this chapter shall be entitled to: (a) [Deleted.] (b) [Deleted.] (c) [Deleted.] (d) [Deleted.] (e) [Redesignated.] (f) The four (4) year limitation periods specified in subsections (c) and (d) of this section may not affect the eligibility of a person for compensation thereunder in any case where compensable disability to such person results from a recurring injury for which any benefits under this section have previously been received.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 254d (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 254d. Permanent total disability

 Compensation, known as continuous income benefits, shall be paid for permanent total disability, provided such disability is a consequence of the injury and ensues within 4 years thereof. Continuous income benefits shall be equal to 66⅔ percent of the employee's weekly wage rate at the time of injury, the rate of compensation not to exceed 90 percent of the average weekly wage rate, and shall be paid during the continuance of such disability lapsing upon the death of the recipient. Permanent total disability shall be considered to be total and permanent loss of vision in both eyes, the loss of both feet at or above the ankle, the loss of both hands at or above the wrists, the loss of one hand and one foot or one arm and one leg, or both arms or both legs. Permanent total disability shall also include such other injuries as result in the total and permanent disability of the person to perform any kind of labor in remunerative occupations as determined by the Administrator.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 254e (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 254e. Rights of minors

 In the case of minors employed in hazardous occupations in violation of the laws in force on the date of employment who suffer injuries or contract industrial disease under the terms of this chapter, the compensation accruing to them in case of disability, or to their dependents in the case of death, shall be 30% higher than the amount due a workman legally employed; provided, that the additional amount provided herein shall be paid by the employer.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 254g (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 254g. Benefit adjustment

 When the maximum weekly income benefit is changed as provided in section 254d, any person who has been totally continuously disabled for over two years shall, without application, have his benefit adjusted with the provisions of this section. (a) In any case where a totally disabled person is presently receiving the maximum weekly income benefit applicable at the time such award was made, the adjusted award shall equal the new maximum weekly benefit. (b) In any case where a totally disabled person is presently receiving less than the maximum weekly income benefit rate applicable at the time such award was made, a new weekly income benefit shall be computed by multiplying the new maximum by a fraction the numerator of which is his present award and the denominator of which is the maximum weekly rate applicable at the time such award was made.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 254h (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 254h. Alien dependents, payments through consular officers

 In case a deceased employee whose injury or death is compensable leaves surviving dependents residing outside of the United States, the duly accredited consular officer of the country in which such dependents are residing may, with the officer's consent, be the representative of such dependents, and his office is authorized to receive and forward payments made to such dependents, such payments to be payable to the dependents on checks drawn on banks in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 254j (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 11 - Workers' Compensation Administration|§ 254j. Death benefits for policemen and firemen

 Any fireman or policeman employed by the Government of the Virgin Islands whose death results from a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment, irrespective of fault as a cause of the injury or death, shall be entitled to compensation for death in a sum not less than $12,500 or more than $25,000, taking into account the earnings of such employee and his life expectancy. The Administrator shall determine the sum payable.