California § 1696.6 - No licensee shall recruit or solicit and transport an employee for farmwork unles

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§ 1696.6. No licensee shall recruit or solicit and transport an employee for farmwork unles

(a) No licensee shall recruit or solicit and transport an employee for farmwork unless he has first obtained, either orally or in writing, a bona fide order for such employment. (b) Any farm labor contractor who recruits or solicits a farmworker without a bona fide order and induces him to be transported to a proposed jobsite and does not then provide employment for him shall pay wages to such farmworker at the agreed rate of pay for the job to which he was being transported and for the elapsed time from the point of departure with return to the same place.

Source: official California text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 1696.6 ("No licensee shall recruit or solicit and transport an employee for farmwork unles") is part of the Public Contract Code - PCC, the codified statutory law of California. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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