2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.8]
CHAPTER 21.5. Foreign Labor Contractors
Section 9998.1
The following definitions are applicable to this chapter:
(a) Person includes any natural person, company, firm, partnership, or joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship.
(b) Compensation means all forms of remuneration or consideration for the provision of employment services to foreign workers by a foreign labor contractor.
(c) Employment services includes, but is not limited to, procuring employment, marketing labor, or otherwise arranging the employment or transportation, housing, and other living accommodations for foreign workers either on behalf of those workers or on behalf of another party.
(d) Foreign worker means any person seeking employment who is not a United States citizen but who is authorized by the federal government to work in the United States, including a person who engages in temporary nonagricultural labor pursuant to Section 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of Title 8 of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.
(e) Foreign labor contractor means any person who for compensation agrees to assist in securing or who actually secures for or provides employment services to foreign workers.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1010, Sec. 18. Effective January 1, 1995.)
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