California Labor Code

§ 1696.6

LAB § 1696.6Div. 2 · Part 6 · Ch. 3

Statute text

(a)No licensee shall recruit or solicit and transport an employee for farmwork unless he has first obtained, either orally or in writing, a bona fide order for such employment.

(b)Any farm labor contractor who recruits or solicits a farmworker without a bona fide order and induces him to be transported to a proposed jobsite and does not then provide employment for him shall pay wages to such farmworker at the agreed rate of pay for the job to which he was being transported and for the elapsed time from the point of departure with return to the same place.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1979.