employed
Every person paid by a contractor or subcontractor in any manner for his labor in the construction, prosecution, completion, or repair of a public building or public work or building or work financed in whole or in part by loans or grants from the United States is employed and receiving wages, regardless of any contractual relationship alleged to exist between him and the real employer.
and receivingwages,regardless of any contractual relationship alleged to exist between him and the real employer.
Source
29 CFR § 3.2
Scoping language
As used in the regulations in this part: