Class 8742
Code 8742 is applied to outside salespersons or collectors. Since these employees are common to many businesses, they are considered to be Standard Exceptions. As such, they are classified to Code 8742 unless the classification applicable to their employment includes salespersons. Under the latter circumstance the outside salespersons or collectors are assigned to the classification that includes salespersons, not Code 8742.
Salespersons, collectors or messengers are defined in MA Manual Rule IV-B-D, Standard Exception Classifications. Code 8742 is not available for employees who deliver merchandise. These employees are assigned to the driver’s classification applicable to the risk even though these employees may also collect or sell. If they deliver merchandise by walking or using public transportation, they are assigned to the governing classification. Judgment is necessary in assessing these employees’ duties for classification purposes since occasional courtesy deliveries of a nominal quantity of merchandise would not preclude them from being classified to Code 8742.
Employees or operations assigned by analogy to Code 8742 include: cotton classifiers exclusively engaged in inspecting and testing cotton samples at employers’ sampling rooms or away from the premises, executive secretaries of Boy or Girl Scout councils who work in the office and travel, fund-raising campaign managers or directors who travel, reporters and photographers employed by newspapers, advertising or circulation solicitors employed by newspaper and magazine publishers, scouts who recruit players for professional sports teams.
Code 8742 includes demonstration of products being sold when performed by salespersons included within the scope of Code 8742. However, the governing classification must be assigned to demonstrating salespersons when these operations are specifically included within the phraseology of a basic classification.
Refer to Rule IV-E-2 when salespersons, collectors or messengers regularly and frequently perform duties at the premises of their employer. When outside salespersons or collectors regularly and frequently perform duties at the premises of their employers, their total payroll is assigned to the highest rated classification representing any part of their work. Again, judgment is required because outside employees will normally spend some time at the premises of their employers attending sales meetings, telephoning clients for appointments, turning in collections, and making out reports or occasionally performing emergency inside work, all of which are included within the scope of Code 8742.
Refer to Code 8748 for automobile salespersons.
Outside welfare workers employed by political bodies are also assigned to Code 8742.
Refer to Code 7720 for the appropriate classification assigned to process servers; such operations are not assigned to Code 8742.
Refer to Code 8720 for employees of firms that are in the business of performing meter reading services for entities such as utilities.
Code 8742 is not limited exclusively to claims adjusters of insurance companies; it also applies to claims adjusters of independent claims adjusting firms. As evidenced by this classification’s cross reference phraseology footnote, those risks engaged in surveillance activities are to be separately rated.
Code 8742 is also applied to outside salespersons and collectors of real estate agencies.
The MA Bureau does not make the determination as to whether an individual salesperson is an employee for workers compensation purposes.
Class 8742
Risks engaged in surveillance activities to be separately rated.
Subject to the Standard Exception manual rule.
Care, custody and maintenance or construction work to be separately rated.