2006 Michigan Compiled Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.651 Emigrant agents; definition.

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

(a) "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy or receiver.

(b) "Emigrant agent" means a person engaged in recruiting, hiring, soliciting or enticing laborers by any means whatsoever in this state to be employed beyond the limits of this state in farm labor.

(c) "Employer" means a person employing or seeking to employ an employee for farm labor.

(d) "Farm labor" means cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodity, the raising of livestock, bees, furbearing animals or poultry, any practices performed on the farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market or any forestry or lumbering operations, and first processing of any agricultural or horticultural commodity during seasonal operations.

(e) "Director" means the director of labor or any person authorized to act in his behalf.

History: 1966, Act 234, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1966