SECTIONS 1812.500-1812.502 - California Statutes

CIVIL CODE

SECTION 1812.500-1812.502

1812.500. This title shall be known and cited as the Employment
Agency, Employment Counseling, and Job Listing Services Act.

1812.501. (a) (1) "Employment agency" or "agency" means:
(A) Any person who, for a fee or other valuable consideration to
be paid, directly or indirectly by a jobseeker, performs, offers to
perform, or represents it can or will perform any of the following
services:
(i) Procures, offers, promises, or attempts to procure employment
or engagements for others or employees for employers.
(ii) Registers persons seeking to procure or retain employment or
engagement.
(iii) Gives information as to where and from whom this help,
employment, or engagement may be procured.
(iv) Provides employment or engagements.
(B) Any person who offers, as one of its main objects or purposes,
to procure employment for any person who will pay for its services,
or that collects dues, tuition, or membership or registration fees of
any sort, if the main object of the person paying those fees is to
secure employment.
(C) Any person who, for a fee or other valuable consideration,
procures, offers, promises, provides, or attempts to procure
babysitting or domestic employment for others or domestics or
babysitters for others.
(2) "Employment agency" or "agency" shall not include any
employment counseling service or any job listing service.
(b) (1) "Employment counseling service" means any person who
offers, advertises, or represents it can or will provide any of the
following services for a fee: career counseling, vocational guidance,
aptitude testing, executive consulting, personnel consulting, career
management, evaluation, or planning, or the development of r