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Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010 (2026)

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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Agricultural employee" means any person who renders, or has rendered, personal services to, or under the direction of, an agricultural employer in connection with the employer's agricultural activity.
(2) "Agricultural employer" means any person engaged in agricultural activity, including the growing, producing, or harvesting of farm or nursery products, or engaged in the forestation or reforestation of lands, which includes but is not limited to the planting, transplanting, tubing, precommercial thinning, and thinning of trees and seedlings, the clearing, piling, and disposal of brush and slash, the harvest of Christmas trees, and other related activities.
(3) "Director" as used in this chapter means the director of the department of labor and industries of the state of Washington.
(4) "Farm labor contracting activity" means recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees.
(5) "Farm labor contractor" means any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity. "Farm labor contractor" does not include a person performing farm labor contracting activity solely for a small forestland owner as defined in RCW 76.09.450 who receives services of no more than two agricultural employees at any given time.
(6) "Fee" means:
(a) Any money or other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid for services rendered or to be rendered by a farm labor contractor.
(b) Any valuable consideration received or to be received by a farm labor contractor for or in connection with any of the services described in subsection (4) of this section, and shall include the difference between any amount received or to be received by him, and the amount paid out by him for or in connection with the rendering of such services.
(7) "Person" includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or unit or agency of state or local government.
(8) This chapter shall not apply to employees of the employment security department acting in their official capacity or their agents, nor to any common carrier or full time regular employees thereof while transporting agricultural employees, nor to any person who performs any of the services enumerated in subsection (4) of this section only within the scope of his or her regular employment for one agricultural employer on whose behalf he or she is so acting, unless he or she is receiving a commission or fee, which commission or fee is determined by the number of workers recruited.
[ 2020 c 205 s 1. Prior: 2017 c 253 s 1; 1985 c 280 s 1; 1955 c 392 s 1.]

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Cited in 9 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1993–2021 · leading case: Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co., 369 P.3d 150 (Wash. 2016).
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Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co., 369 P.3d 150 (Wash. 2016). · cites it 14× “is a “farm labor contractor” under RCW 19.30.010(2) and, if so, whether the other defendants “knowingly use[d]” its services under RCW 19.”
Escobar v. Baker, 814 F. Supp. 1491 (W.D. Wash. 1993). · cites it 6× “” RCW 19.30.010(2). “Farm labor contracting activity” means “recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees.”
Saucedo v. NW Mgmt. & Realty Servs., Inc., 290 F.R.D. 671 (E.D. Wash. 2013). · cites it 3× “Plaintiffs assert that class certification is appropriate as to four separate claims stemming from NW Management’s alleged conduct: (1) failure to obtain a farm labor contractor license in violation of the Washington Farm Labor Contractors Act (“FLCA”), RCW 19.30.010 et seq.;…”
Cascade Floral Prod., Inc. v. Dep. of Labor & Indus., 177 P.3d 124 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). · cites it 2× “RCW 19.30.010(4). ¶ 10 L & I concedes that brush picking is not an "agricultural activity.”
Cascade Floral Prods., Inc. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 142 Wash. App. 613 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). · cites it 2× “RCW 19.30.010(4). ¶10 L&I concedes that brush picking is not an “agricultural activity.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). · cites it 13× “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). · cites it 12× “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
Abelardo Saucedo v. Farmland Mgmt. Servs., 796 F.3d 1016 (9th Cir. 2015). “, and the FLCA, Wash. Rev.Code § 19.30.010, et seq. The district court certified the Plaintiffs’ class as to the FLCA claims, and all other claims were settled and dismissed.”
Garcia v. Stemilt Ag Servs. LLC (E.D. Wash. 2021). · cites it 3× “” Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010 (4). 16 Defendant argues that named Plaintiffs were given proper FLCA disclosures, 17 and thus their non-existent claims under Sections 19.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010(2) — 5 cases
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co., 369 P.3d 150 (Wash. 2016). “is a “farm labor contractor” under RCW 19.30.010(2) and, if so, whether the other defendants “knowingly use[d]” its services under RCW 19.”
Escobar v. Baker, 814 F. Supp. 1491 (W.D. Wash. 1993). “” RCW 19.30.010(2). “Farm labor contracting activity” means “recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees.”
Saucedo v. NW Mgmt. & Realty Servs., Inc., 290 F.R.D. 671 (E.D. Wash. 2013). “Plaintiffs assert that class certification is appropriate as to four separate claims stemming from NW Management’s alleged conduct: (1) failure to obtain a farm labor contractor license in violation of the Washington Farm Labor Contractors Act (“FLCA”), RCW 19.30.010 et seq.;…”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010(3) — 4 cases
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co., 369 P.3d 150 (Wash. 2016). “is a “farm labor contractor” under RCW 19.30.010(2) and, if so, whether the other defendants “knowingly use[d]” its services under RCW 19.”
Escobar v. Baker, 814 F. Supp. 1491 (W.D. Wash. 1993). “” RCW 19.30.010(2). “Farm labor contracting activity” means “recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010(4) — 5 cases
Cascade Floral Prod., Inc. v. Dep. of Labor & Indus., 177 P.3d 124 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). “RCW 19.30.010(4). ¶ 10 L & I concedes that brush picking is not an "agricultural activity.”
Cascade Floral Prods., Inc. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 142 Wash. App. 613 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). “RCW 19.30.010(4). ¶10 L&I concedes that brush picking is not an “agricultural activity.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co., 369 P.3d 150 (Wash. 2016). “is a “farm labor contractor” under RCW 19.30.010(2) and, if so, whether the other defendants “knowingly use[d]” its services under RCW 19.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010(5) — 1 case
Garcia v. Stemilt Ag Servs. LLC (E.D. Wash. 2021). “” Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010 (4). 16 Defendant argues that named Plaintiffs were given proper FLCA disclosures, 17 and thus their non-existent claims under Sections 19.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010(6) — 4 cases
Escobar v. Baker, 814 F. Supp. 1491 (W.D. Wash. 1993). “” RCW 19.30.010(2). “Farm labor contracting activity” means “recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co., 369 P.3d 150 (Wash. 2016). “is a “farm labor contractor” under RCW 19.30.010(2) and, if so, whether the other defendants “knowingly use[d]” its services under RCW 19.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
Saucedo v. John Hancock Life & Health Ins. Co. (Wash. 2016). “The first question implicates RCW 19.30.010(2). That statute defines a "farm labor contractor" as "any person, or his or her agent or subcontractor, who, for a fee, performs any farm labor contracting activity.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 19.30.010(7) — 1 case
Escobar v. Baker, 814 F. Supp. 1491 (W.D. Wash. 1993). “” RCW 19.30.010(2). “Farm labor contracting activity” means “recruiting, soliciting, employing, supplying, transporting, or hiring agricultural employees.”
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