CHAPTER 21.5. Foreign Labor Contractors [9998. - 9998.12.]
Chapter 21.5 added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1450, Sec. 1.
§§ 9998–9998.12 · 14 sections
- § 9998 This chapter shall apply only to the following: (a) Nonagricultural workers under the federal H-2B visa program established pursuant to Section…
- § 9998.1 The following definitions are applicable to this chapter: (a) “Person” includes any natural person, company, firm, partnership or joint venture, association,…
- § 9998.1.5 (a) (1) On and after July 1, 2016, a person acting as a foreign labor contractor shall register with the Labor Commissioner in accordance with the terms and…
- § 9998.2 (a) On and after July 1, 2016, a person who knows or should have known that the person is using the services of a foreign labor contractor to procure foreign…
- § 9998.2.5 (a) A foreign labor contractor shall ascertain and disclose in writing to each foreign worker who is recruited for employment in English and in the primary…
- § 9998.3 No foreign labor contractor shall make, publish, or circulate or cause to be made, published, or circulated, to any person any false, fraudulent, or misleading…
- § 9998.4 No foreign labor contractor shall recruit for employment or cause any minor who is a foreign worker to be employed.
- § 9998.5 Any foreign labor contractor who recruits or solicits without a bona fide job order and who induces a foreign worker to be transported to a proposed jobsite…
- § 9998.6 A person may not intimidate, threaten, restrain, coerce, discharge, or in any manner discriminate against a foreign worker or a member of his or her family in…
- § 9998.7 No foreign labor contractor shall make promises or otherwise induce a foreign worker to travel or accept promises of employment by promising or providing…
- § 9998.8 (a) A person who violates this chapter or who causes or induces another to violate this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more…
- § 9998.10 The Labor Commissioner and the deputies and representatives authorized by the commissioner in writing may take assignments of actions on the bonds required…
- § 9998.11 The Labor Commissioner may adopt regulations or policies and procedures to implement the provisions of this chapter.
- § 9998.12 (a) The Department of Industrial Relations shall submit to the Legislature, by January 1, 2028, and in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, a…