As used in the Day Laborer Act: 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; 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; 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; D. 'day laborer' means a person who contracts for day labor employment with a day labor service agency; E. 'department' means the workforce solutions department; 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; 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 H. antly performed in an office setting; 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 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. ANNOTATIONSThe 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, changed the reference from the labor department to the workforce solutions department.
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