AN
ACT Relating to employment agencies; and amending RCW 19.31.020.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
19.31.020 and 1993 c 499 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;
(b)
The giving of information regarding where and from whom employment may be
obtained; or
(c)
The sale of a list of jobs or a list of names of persons or companies accepting
applications for specific positions, in any form.
In
addition the term "employment agency" shall mean and include any
person, bureau, employment listing service, employment directory, 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, if the list of names or the preaddressed envelopes
have been compiled and are represented by the business as having job openings.
The term "employment agency" shall not include labor union
organizations, temporary service contractors, proprietary schools operating
within the scope of activities for which the school is licensed under chapter
28C.10 RCW, nonprofit schools and colleges, career guidance and counseling
services, employment directories that are sold in a manner that allows the
applicant to examine the directory before purchase, theatrical agencies, farm
labor contractors, 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. The term "theatrical
agency" does not include any person charging an applicant a fee prior to
or in advance of:
(a)
Procuring employment for the applicant;
(b)
Giving or providing the applicant information regarding where or from whom
employment may be obtained;
(c)
Allowing or requiring the applicant to participate in any instructional class,
audition, or career guidance or counseling; or
(d)
Allowing the applicant to be eligible for employment through the person.
(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.
(11)
"Employment listing service" means any business operated by any
person that provides in any form, including written or verbal, lists of
specified positions of employment available with any employer other than itself
or that holds itself out to applicants as able to provide information about
specific positions of employment available with any employer other than itself,
and that charges a fee to the applicant for its services and does not set up
interviews or otherwise intercede between employer and applicant.
(12)
"Employment directory" means any business operated by any person that
provides in any form, including written or verbal, lists of employers, does not
provide lists of specified positions of employment, that holds itself out to
applicants as able to provide information on employment in specific industries
or geographical areas, and that charges a fee to the applicant for its
services.
(13)
"Career guidance and counseling service" means any person, firm,
association, or corporation conducting a business that engages in any of the
following activities:
(a)
Career assessment, planning, or testing through individual counseling or group
seminars, classes, or workshops;
(b)
Skills analysis, resume writing, and preparation through individual counseling
or group seminars, classes, or workshops;
(c)
Training in job search or interviewing skills through individual counseling or
group seminars, classes, or workshops: PROVIDED, That the career guidance and
counseling service does not engage in any of the following activities:
(i)
Contacts employers on behalf of an applicant or in any way intercedes between
employer and applicant;
(ii)
Provides information on specific job openings;
(iii) Holds itself out as able to provide referrals to specific
companies or individuals who have specific job openings.
