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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="7-401" title_number="7" title_name="Farm Labor Contractors" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Responsibilities of Farm Labor Contractors">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In accordance with this section, each farm labor contractor shall disclose to each migrant agricultural worker:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>each place of employment in the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a description of the crops and activities involved;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>each condition of employment at each place of employment, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the wage to be paid;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the person who will pay the wage; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>when the wage is due;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the housing, insurance, or transportation that will be provided to the migrant agricultural worker;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>any cost that will be charged to the migrant agricultural worker for housing, insurance, or transportation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>each labor dispute that the farm labor contractor knows exists at a place of employment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each farm labor contractor shall disclose to a migrant agricultural worker the information required under this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>before the farm labor contractor causes the migrant agricultural worker to enter the State to perform agricultural work;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if the migrant agricultural worker is recruited in the State, before the farm labor contractor recruits the migrant agricultural worker to perform agricultural work; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>if the farm labor contractor is in the State with a migrant agricultural worker and has recruited the migrant agricultural worker when an agricultural operation asks the farm labor contractor to perform a farm labor contracting service, before the farm labor contractor performs the service.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each farm labor contractor who provides housing for a migrant agricultural worker, by agreement with an agricultural operation or otherwise, shall ensure that all of the conditions of occupancy are posted conspicuously while the migrant agricultural worker stays in the housing.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Information that a farm labor contractor is required to disclose under this section shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>in writing; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in English or, as necessary and reasonable for migrant agricultural workers who are not fluent or literate in English, in Spanish or another language common to the migrant agricultural workers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>On request, the Commissioner shall make available to a farm labor contractor forms to be used to disclose information as required under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
