Specific-employment migrant worker

A worker who has been sent by his or her employer for a restricted and defined period of time to a another State to undertake a specific assignment or duty and who is required to depart from the State of employment either at the expiration of his or her authorized period of stay, or earlier.
(adapted from Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990, visited 2010-05-11)