Section 31.1. Definitions  


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  • The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

    Camp—Any migrant labor camp.

    Crew leader—Any person, who, for a fee, either for himself or on behalf of another person, recruits, solicits, hires, furnishes, transports, manages or supervises migrant workers in connection with agricultural employment.

    Fee—Any money or other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid to a person for services as a crew leader.

    Foreman—Any person designated by a crew leader to perform services or supervision in his behalf.

    Migrant worker—Any interstate or intrastate individual whose primary employment is in agriculture, on a seasonal or other temporary basis, or any individual irrespective of his primary employment, if he performs agricultural labor on a seasonal or other temporary basis. This term includes all seasonal workers, migrant workers, or farm labor who are not year round employes and who occupy living quarters other than their permanent home during the period of such work on a farm.

    Person—Any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust or corporation.