§1802 Definitions

Summary

Lists the basic words used in this chapter about farm labor and tells what each word means. "Agricultural association" is a nonprofit or cooperative of farmers or ranchers set up under state law that recruits, hires, or moves migrant or seasonal farm workers. "Agricultural employer" is anyone who owns or runs a farm, ranch, processing plant, cannery, gin, packing shed, nursery, or seed operation and who recruits or employs those workers. "Agricultural employment" means the kinds of farm work covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and tasks like planting, handling, drying, packing, processing, freezing, or grading farm products before storage. "Day-haul operation" is picking up workers, taking them to work, and returning them the same day. "Employ" is as defined in FLSA section 3(g). "Farm labor contracting activity" means recruiting, hiring, or transporting migrant or seasonal workers. "Farm labor contractor" is a person who, for pay, does those activities but is not an employer, association, or their employee. "Migrant agricultural worker" is someone who does temporary farm work and must be away overnight from home, except immediate family of an employer or contractor and certain H‑2A nonimmigrants (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) and 1184(c)). "Person" includes individuals and business entities like partnerships, trusts, cooperatives, and corporations. "Seasonal agricultural worker" is someone who does temporary farm work and does not sleep away from home when doing field work or when transported by day-haul for packing or processing; it excludes migrants, immediate family of an employer or contractor, and the same H‑2A nonimmigrants. "Secretary" means the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary’s representative. "State" means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam.