Under the Workers' Compensation Law, most individuals providing services to a for-profit business will be deemed an employee of that business and therefore must be covered by the employer for workers' compensation insurance.
Seminal works, sometimes called pivotal or landmark studies, are articles that initially presented an idea of great importance or influence within a particular discipline.
Usually they are very well cited in their subareas. Citing a seminal paper is a way for an author to indicate what he is talking about. However, this tends to find recent seminal papers more often than old seminal papers.