Federal employee

Definition and stakes

Executive Order 12953

“ Each agency shall designate an official who shall be responsible for facilitating a Federal employee's or member's availability for service of process, regardless of the location of the employee's workplace or member's duty station. ”
Source: Wikisource

Albert Sidney Bolles,  Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman

“ By the Federal act an employee must be "employed by the United States to be entitled to its benefits." Thus, a plate printer in the bureau of engraving and printing who is paid by the piece, and who bonds himself and hires and pays his own help, also the owner of a power boat chartered to the government and operated by the owner in its service, are contractors, and not federal employees. [272] A workman, therefore, who is employed by a government contractor is not an employee of the government. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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