California Business and Professions Code

§ 9998.5

BPC § 9998.5Div. 3 · Ch. 21.5

Statute text

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 and who does not then provide employment for the foreign worker shall pay wages to the foreign worker at the agreed rate of pay for the job to which the foreign worker was being transported and for the elapsed time from the point of recruitment to the jobsite to the point the worker returns to the place of original departure, and for any transportation costs incurred by the foreign worker in connection with the pursuit of the labor contractor’s services.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1450, Sec. 1.