50.04.237 - Employment -- Agricultural labor by farm intern -- Definitions. - Washington Statutes

Employment — Agricultural labor by farm intern — Definitions. (Expires December 31, 2011.)

(1) The term "employment" shall not include service performed in agricultural labor by a farm intern providing his or her services under a farm internship program as established in RCW 49.12.465.

     (2) For purposes of this section, "agricultural labor" means:

     (a) Services performed on a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with the cultivation of the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and furbearing animals and wildlife, or in the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a farm in connection with the operation, management, conservation, improvement, or maintenance of such farm and its tools and equipment;

     (b) Services performed in packing, packaging, grading, storing, or delivering to storage, or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, any agricultural or horticultural commodity; but only if such service is performed as an incident to ordinary farming operations. The exclusions from the term "employment" provided in this subsection (2)(b) shall not be deemed to be applicable with respect to commercial packing houses, commercial storage establishments, commercial canning, commercial freezing, or any other commercial processing or with respect to services performed in connection with the cultivation, raising, harvesting and processing of oysters or raising and harvesting of mushrooms; or

     (c) Direct local sales of any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its delivery to a terminal market for distribution or consumption.

[2010 c 160 § 4.]

Notes: Expiration date -- 2010 c 160: See note following RCW 49.12.465.