Washington Code 19.30.010 – Definitions — Exceptions from chapter
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
Terms Used In Washington Code 19.30.010
- Agricultural employer: means any person engaged in agricultural activity, including the growing, producing, or harvesting of farm or nursery products, or engaged in the forestation or reforestation of lands, which includes but is not limited to the planting, transplanting, tubing, precommercial thinning, and thinning of trees and seedlings, the clearing, piling, and disposal of brush and slash, the harvest of Christmas trees, and other related activities. See Washington Code 19.30.010
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Director: as used in this chapter means the director of the department of labor and industries of the state of Washington. See Washington Code 19.30.010
- Farm labor contracting activity: means recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees. See Washington Code 19.30.010
- Farm labor contractor: means any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity. See Washington Code 19.30.010
- Fee: means :
Washington Code 19.30.010Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. Person: includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or unit or agency of state or local government. See Washington Code 19.30.010
(1) “Agricultural employee” means any person who renders, or has rendered, personal services to, or under the direction of, an agricultural employer in connection with the employer’s agricultural activity.
(2) “Agricultural employer” means any person engaged in agricultural activity, including the growing, producing, or harvesting of farm or nursery products, or engaged in the forestation or reforestation of lands, which includes but is not limited to the planting, transplanting, tubing, precommercial thinning, and thinning of trees and seedlings, the clearing, piling, and disposal of brush and slash, the harvest of Christmas trees, and other related activities.
(3) “Director” as used in this chapter means the director of the department of labor and industries of the state of Washington.
(4) “Farm labor contracting activity” means recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees.
(5) “Farm labor contractor” means any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity. “Farm labor contractor” does not include a person performing farm labor contracting activity solely for a small forestland owner as defined in RCW 76.09.450 who receives services of no more than two agricultural employees at any given time.
(6) “Fee” means:
(a) Any money or other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid for services rendered or to be rendered by a farm labor contractor.
(b) Any valuable consideration received or to be received by a farm labor contractor for or in connection with any of the services described in subsection (4) of this section, and shall include the difference between any amount received or to be received by him, and the amount paid out by him for or in connection with the rendering of such services.
(7) “Person” includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or unit or agency of state or local government.
(8) This chapter shall not apply to employees of the employment security department acting in their official capacity or their agents, nor to any common carrier or full time regular employees thereof while transporting agricultural employees, nor to any person who performs any of the services enumerated in subsection (4) of this section only within the scope of his or her regular employment for one agricultural employer on whose behalf he or she is so acting, unless he or she is receiving a commission or fee, which commission or fee is determined by the number of workers recruited.