As used in the Day Laborer Act:

1. A. "check cashing service" means a business that for a fee offers to cash checks or other payment instruments or that advertises that it cashes checks or other payment instruments;
2. B. "day labor" means employment that is under a contract between a day labor service agency and a third-party employer, that is occasional or irregular and that is for a limited time period;
3. C. "day labor service agency" means an entity, including a labor broker or labor pool, that provides day laborers to third-party employers and that charges the third-party employer for the service of providing day laborers for employment offered by the employer;
4. D. "day laborer" means a person who contracts for day labor employment with a day labor service agency;
5. E. "department" means the workforce solutions department;
6. F. "office worker" means a person employed to perform clerical, secretarial or other semiskilled or skilled work that is predominantly performed in an office setting;
7. G. "payment instrument" means a paycheck, payment voucher or other negotiable instrument from an employer provided to an employee to pay for hours worked; and
8. H. "third-party employer" means a person that contracts with a day labor service agency for the employment of day laborers.

History: Laws 2005, ch. 257, § 2; 2007, ch. 200, § 21.

ANNOTATIONS

The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, changed the reference from the labor department to the workforce solutions department.