Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-125 - Nonagricultural employment of minors › Section 296-125-015 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Department" means the Washington state
			 department of labor and industries.
(2) "Employ" means to engage, suffer or
			 permit to work, and includes entering into any arrangement, including a
			 contract, whether implied, express, oral, or written, with a minor whereby the
			 minor works in house-to-house sales except when a minor is working in
			 house-to-house sales for her or his parent or stepparent. The term "employ"
			 does not include newspaper vendors or carriers, the use of domestic or casual
			 labor in or about private residences, agricultural labor as defined by
			 RCW
			 50.04.150, or the use of voluntary or donated
			 services performed for an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit
			 organization and without expectation or contemplation of compensation for the
			 services performed.
(3) "Employee"
			 means any minor employed by an employer, including minors who work pursuant to
			 any arrangement, including contract, whether implied, express, oral, or written
			 in house-to-house sales, but does not include newspaper vendors or carriers,
			 domestic or casual labor in or about private residences, minors employed in
			 agricultural labor as defined by
			 RCW
			 50.04.150, or minors employed for
			 house-to-house sales by their parents or stepparents.
(4) "Employer" means any person, association,
			 partnership, private or public corporation that employs or exercises control
			 over the wages, hours, working conditions, or workplace of a minor, and for
			 purposes of house-to-house sales includes any distributor or other person,
			 association, partnership, private or public corporation that enters into any
			 arrangement, including contract, whether implied, express, oral, or written,
			 with a minor whereby the minor works in house-to-house sales; but does not
			 include employers of agricultural labor as defined by
			 RCW
			 50.04.150, employers of newspaper vendors or
			 carriers, employers of casual labor in or about the employers' private
			 residences, parents or stepparents employing their own minor children for
			 house-to-house sales, the state, a state institution, a state agency, a
			 political subdivision of the state, a municipal corporation, or a
			 quasi-municipal corporation.
(5)
			 "House-to-house sales" means a sale or other transaction in consumer goods, the
			 demonstration of products or equipment, the obtaining of orders for consumer
			 goods, or the obtaining of contracts for services, in which an employee
			 personally solicits the sale or transaction at a place other than the place of
			 business of the employer or the residence of the employee.
(6) "Minor" means a person under the age of
			 eighteen years.
(7) "School
			 holiday" means a day of a school week on which the school at which a minor
			 employee is enrolled is scheduled to be closed. If a minor employee is not
			 enrolled in school, school holidays shall be determined by the schedule of the
			 public school district in which the minor resides.
(8) "School vacation" means the spring break,
			 winter break, and summer break of the school at which a minor employee is
			 enrolled, or if not enrolled the public school district in which a minor
			 resides.
(9) "Transport" means the
			 conveyance, provision of a means of conveyance, or reimbursement or payment for
			 the cost of conveyance at the direction or under the control of an employer or
			 an employer's agent.
(10)
			 "Workplace" means any worksite, premises, or location where minors
			 work.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapters
				  43.22 and
				  49.12 RCW,
				  RCW
				  26.28.060 and
				  43.17.060. 93-01-068, §
				  296-125-015, filed 12/11/92, effective 3/1/93. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  43.22.270 and 1989 c 216. 89-23-003, §
				  296-125-015, filed 11/3/89, effective 11/20/89; Order 76-15, §
				  296-125-015, filed 5/17/76; Order 74-9, § 296-125-015, filed 3/13/74,
				  effective 4/15/74; Order 71-5, § 296-125-015, filed 5/26/71, effective
				  7/1/71; Section B, filed 9/18/63; Rules (part), filed
				  3/23/60.