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SENATE BILL 5633
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senator West.
Read first time February 12, 1991. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to the definition of employment agency; and amending RCW 19.31.020.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 19.31.020 and 1990 c 70 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context, the following words and phrases, as hereinafter used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Employment agency" is synonymous with "agency" and shall mean any business in which any part of the business gross or net income is derived from a fee received from applicants, and in which any of the following activities are engaged in:
(a) The offering, promising, procuring, or attempting to procure employment for applicants; or
(b) The giving of information regarding where and from whom employment may be obtained.
In
addition the term "employment agency" shall mean and include any
person, bureau, employment listing or employment referral service,
organization, or school which for profit, by advertisement or otherwise,
offers, as one of its main objects or purposes, to procure employment for any
person who pays for its services, or which collects tuition, or charges for
service of any nature, where the main object of the person paying the same is
to secure employment. It also includes any business that provides ((a
resume to an individual and provides that person with)) a list of names ((to
whom the resume may be sent or provides that person with preaddressed envelopes
to be mailed by the individual or by the business itself)) in any form,
which shall include but not be limited to preaddressed envelopes, complied by
the business and sold to an individual under the pretext the list (i) contains
a current roster of names of persons accepting applications for specific
positions to whom the individual can correspond, send a resume, or contact, or
(ii) contains current job openings for which the individual can apply. The
term "employment agency" shall not include labor union organizations,
temporary service contractors, proprietary schools, theatrical agencies, farm
labor contractors, newspapers, magazines, journals, or other publications
that do not have any direct contact with employers or with representatives of
the employer other than in accepting an order for a fee to advertise that a
person will be recruiting to fill vacant positions, or businesses that
disseminate lists of person with key contacts without implying the list
contains current and accurate information designed to assist the individual in
securing employment, or the Washington state employment agency.
(2) "Temporary service contractors" shall mean any person, firm, association, or corporation conducting a business which consists of employing individuals directly for the purpose of furnishing such individuals on a part time or temporary help basis to others.
(3) "Theatrical agency" means any person who, for a fee or commission, procures or attempts to procure on behalf of an individual or individuals, employment or engagements for circus, vaudeville, the variety field, the legitimate theater, motion pictures, radio, television, phonograph recordings, transcriptions, opera, concert, ballet, modeling, or other entertainments, exhibitions, or performances.
(4) "Farm labor contractor" means any person, or his agent, who, for a fee, employs workers to render personal services in connection with the production of any farm products, to, for, or under the direction of an employer engaged in the growing, producing, or harvesting of farm products, or who recruits, solicits, supplies, or hires workers on behalf of an employer engaged in the growing, producing, or harvesting of farm products or who provides in connection with recruiting, soliciting, supplying, or hiring workers engaged in the growing, producing, or harvesting of farm products, one or more of the following services: Furnishes board, lodging, or transportation for such workers, supervises, times, checks, counts, sizes, or otherwise directs or measures their work; or disburses wage payments to such persons.
(5) "Employer" means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association employing or seeking to enter into an arrangement to employ a person through the medium or service of an employment agency.
(6) "Applicant", except when used to describe an applicant for an employment agency license, means any person, whether employed or unemployed, seeking or entering into any arrangement for his employment or change of his employment through the medium or service of an employment agency.
(7) "Person" includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, company, society, manager, contractor, subcontractor, bureau, agency, service, office, or an agent or employee of any of the foregoing.
(8) "Director" shall mean the director of licensing.
(9) "Resume" means a document of the applicant's employment history that is approved, received, and paid for by the applicant.
(10) "Fee" means anything of value. The term includes money or other valuable consideration or services or the promise of money or other valuable consideration or services, received directly or indirectly by an employment agency from a person seeking employment, in payment for the service.