# Labor and Employment (GLE)

## Title 9. Workers' Compensation

### Subtitle 2. Covered Employees and Employers

#### Section 9-236

An individual is a covered employee while performing a service for compensation in the course of the business, occupation, profession, or trade of an employer if, in relation to the service, the individual:

(1) does not maintain a separate business;

(2) neither represents to the public that the individual provides the service nor provides the service to the public; and

(3) does not have a covered employee.

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Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)