§ 31-134a — Procurement of out-of-state domestic employees.

(a) No employment agency, directly or indirectly, shall accept applications from persons outside the state of Connecticut, or procure or offer to procure employment, as domestic or household employees, of persons who are residing outside of the state but within the continental United States, previous to their applications for employment in this state, except as provided in this section and the applicable provisions of this chapter. (b) An employment agency which engages in recruitment of such employees or in offer or procurement as described in subsection (a), directly or indirectly, shall furnish to the Labor Commissioner a written list containing the name and address of all emigrant agents from whom it accepts job applicants. If such emigrant agents are required to be licensed in the places in which they are recruiting employees, no employment agency, directly or indirectly, shall accept applicants from any such agent there unless he is so licensed. (c) No employment agency shall accept, procure or offer to procure employment for such an applicant unless evidence or an affidavit executed by the applicant before a person authorized to administer oaths in Connecticut has been filed with the agency that the applicant has reached the age of eighteen years. (d) If an employment agency engages in the recruitment of domestic or household employees from outside of the state, it shall enter into its records the following information, in addition to records prescribed in section 31-130 : (1) The last home address and birth date of all applicants for such employment whom the employment agency is responsible for bringing into the state of Connecticut; (2) the name and address of the emigrant agent, if any, through whom such applicant was obtained; (3) the name and address of each person to whom the employment agency has made payments in connection with the recruitment of the applicant and amounts of such payments; (4) the total charges made by the agency to the applicant, including, to be separately designated, agency fee, recruitment fee, any charge for transportation, and any other charges in connection with placement. (e) The employment agency shall have the following additional obligations with respect to such persons as it is bringing or has brought, directly or indirectly, into the state: (1) To provide direct transportation of such person into the state by licensed common carrier and (2) to provide, solely at its expense, suitable lodging and meals for such person until such person is placed in employment after arrival at the office of the employment agency and for any period of unemployment during the thirty days ensuing after arrival or until the employment agency has provided the person with reasonable allowance for meals for each day of travel and return fare by common carrier to the place whence he came, whichever is sooner. The obligation to provide lodging, meals and return fare shall terminate if the unemployment is due to the refusal by such person to accept suitable employment or to a leaving by such person of his work without sufficient cause connected with his employment or to a discharge for wilful misconduct. (f) The bond required in section 31-130 shall be conditioned that the obligor shall comply with this section. See Sec. 31-129 for applicable definitions.

Legislative History

(1961, P.A. 401, S. 2.)