Sections
14 entriesSection 9998Limits the chapter to nonagricultural workers under the federal H-2B visa program and, beginning July 1, 2027, agricultural workers under the federal…Section 9998.1Defines “person,” “foreign labor contracting activity,” “foreign worker,” and “foreign labor contractor.” Contracting activity includes compensated recruiting of a worker abroad for…Section 9998.1.5Requires foreign labor contractors to register beginning July 1, 2016, and farm labor contractors performing those activities beginning July 1, 2027; registration…Section 9998.2Requires a person, beginning July 1, 2016, who knows or should know it uses a foreign labor contractor to procure covered workers…Section 9998.2.5Requires foreign labor contractors, at recruitment, to give recruited foreign workers written English and primary-language disclosures covering employer, contract, visa, costs, protections,…Section 9998.3Prohibits a foreign labor contractor from making, publishing, circulating, or causing the making, publication, or circulation to any person of a false,…Section 9998.4Prohibits a foreign labor contractor from recruiting a minor foreign worker for employment or causing such a minor to be employed. The…Section 9998.5Requires a foreign labor contractor who recruits or solicits without a genuine job order, induces a foreign worker to travel to a…Section 9998.6Prohibits any person from intimidating, threatening, restraining, coercing, discharging, or otherwise discriminating against a foreign worker or a member of that worker’s…Section 9998.7Prohibits a foreign labor contractor from promising or assuring a foreign worker that United States citizenship or permanent residency will be secured…Section 9998.8Sets a misdemeanor penalty up to $1,000, six months in county jail, or both, plus civil penalties of $1,000–$25,000 per violation and…Section 9998.10Allows the Labor Commissioner and deputies or representatives authorized in writing to take assignments from aggrieved persons of actions on bonds required…Section 9998.11Allows the Labor Commissioner to adopt regulations, policies, or procedures to implement the chapter’s provisions. The authority permits implementation through formal regulations…Section 9998.12Requires the Department of Industrial Relations to submit, by January 1, 2028, a legislative study on extending foreign-labor-contractor registration to recruiters using…