California Business and Professions Code CHAPTER 21.5 - Foreign Labor Contractors

• Section 9998.
  This chapter shall apply only to “nonagricultural workers” as defined by Section 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of Title 8 of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. It shall...
• Section 9998.1.
  The following definitions are applicable to this chapter:(a) “Person” includes any natural person, company, firm, partnership or joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company, or sole...
• Section 9998.1.5.
  (a) 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 9998.4.
  No foreign labor contractor shall recruit for employment or cause any minor who is a foreign worker to be employed.(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1450,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 assurances...
• Section 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...
• Section 9998.10.a.
  The Labor Commissioner and the deputies and representatives authorized by the commissioner in writing may take assignments of actions on the bonds required under Section...
• Section 9998.11.
  The Labor Commissioner may adopt regulations or policies and procedures to implement the provisions of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 711, Sec. 10. (SB...

Last modified: October 22, 2018