Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-126 - Standards of labor for the protection of the safety, health and welfare of employees for all occupations subject to chapter 49.12 RCW › Section 296-126-202 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) "Department"
			 shall mean the department of labor and industries.
(2) "Committee" shall mean the industrial
			 welfare committee of the department of labor and industries.
(3) "Organized camps," as used herein, shall
			 refer to established resident group camps, which are established and maintained
			 for recreation, education, vacation, or religious purposes, for use by
			 organized groups wherein the activities are conducted on a closely supervised
			 basis, and where day-to-day living facilities, including food and lodging, are
			 provided either free-of-charge or by payment of fee.
(4) "Employ" means to engage, suffer, or
			 permit to work.
(5) "Employee"
			 shall mean any person who is employed in a counselor staff occupation in an
			 organized seasonal recreational camp as herein defined.
(6) "Employer" means any person, association,
			 partnership, private or public corporation who employs or exercises control
			 over wages, hours, or working conditions of one or more employees.
(7) "Minor" shall mean any person under
			 eighteen years of age.
(8)
			 "Counselor staff occupations" shall include all work involving duties primarily
			 relating to guidance, instruction, supervision, and care of campers in
			 organized camps, whether such work involves direct charge of, or responsibility
			 for, such activities, or merely assistance to persons in charge; but shall not
			 include preseason training courses. Counselor staff occupations include, but
			 are not limited to: Head counselor, assistant head counselor, specialist
			 counselor or instructor (such as swimming counselor, arts and crafts counselor,
			 etc.), group or division leader, camp parent, teacher, supervising counselor,
			 senior counselor, counselor, general counselor, bunk counselor, assistant
			 counselor, junior counselor, counselor aide, and kitchen helpers working no
			 more than twenty-seven hours in a given work week.
(9) "Resident counselor staff" shall mean
			 staff who receive lodging and meals from the employer.
(10) "Nonresident counselor staff" shall mean
			 staff who do not receive lodging and meals from the employer.
(11) "Counselor I," "Counselor II," and
			 "Counselor III," shall be defined for purposes of this standard as follows:
			 "Counselor I" is one never before employed in any counselor staff occupations;
			 "Counselor II" is one who has had at least one season's employment in a
			 counselor staff occupation; "Counselor III" is one who has had at least three
			 seasons of employment in a counselor staff occupation.
(12) "Season of employment" is defined as a
			 period of not less than six weeks, nor more than twelve weeks in any one
			 calendar year, except that counselors employed less than six weeks in any one
			 season may accumulate their employment experience from year to year to meet the
			 minimum requirements for counselor grade.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  49.12.091. 78-03-004 (Order 78-1), §
				  296-126-202, filed 2/3/78.