§ 34-13-15 — Employment agent requirements

In addition to the foregoing sections governing specific classifications, the following shall
govern each and every employment agent:
1. Every license must be hung in a conspicuous place in the main office of the
employment agency.
2. No fee may be solicited or accepted as an application or registration fee by any
employment agent for the purpose of being registered as an applicant for employment.
3. Every employment agent shall give to every person from whom the payment of a
service charge is received for services rendered or to be rendered, or assistance given
or to be given, a receipt bearing the name and address of the employment agency, the
name of the employment agent, the amount of the payment, the date of the payment,
and for what it is paid. Every receipt to an applicant by an employment agent must be
numbered and bound in duplicate form. A duplicate copy of each receipt must be kept
at least one year.
4. Every employment agent shall keep a record of all services rendered employers and
employees. This record must contain the name and address of the employer by whom
the services were solicited, the name and address of the employee, kind of position
offered by the employer, kind of position accepted by the employee, probable duration

of the employment, rate of wage or salary to be paid the employee, amount of the
employment agent's service charge, dates and amounts of payments, date and
amount of refund, if any, and for what, and a space for remarks under which must be
recorded anything of an individual nature to amplify the foregoing report and as
information in the event of any question arising concerning the transaction. Such
records must during business hours be open to the inspection of the commissioner at
the address where the employment agency is conducted for the purpose of satisfying
the commissioner that they are being kept in conformity with this section. Upon written
complaint being made, the commissioner may require of the employment agent
against whom the complaint is made a detailed account under oath in writing of the
transaction referred to in the complaint. If the commissioner has reason to question the
detailed report so submitted by the employment agent, the commissioner may demand
of the employment agent the production of these records for examination by the
commissioner, or the commissioner's agent, at such place as the commissioner may
designate.
5. No employment agent may send out any applicant for employment without having
obtained, either orally or in writing, a bona fide order, and if no employment of the kind
applied for existed at the place to which the applicant was directed, the employment
agent shall refund to the applicant, within forty-eight hours of demand, any sums paid
by the applicant for transportation in going to and returning from the place, and all fees
paid by the applicant. This chapter does not prevent an employment agent from
directing an applicant to an employer where the employer has previously requested
that the employer be accorded interviews with applicants of certain types and
qualifications, even though no actual vacancy existed in the employer's organization at
the time the applicant was so directed; nor does it prevent the employment agent from
attempting to sell the services of an applicant to the employer even though no order
has been placed with the employment agent; provided, that in any case the applicant
is acquainted with the facts when directed to the employer, in which event no
employment agent is liable to any applicant as provided in this section.
6. No employment agent may, personally, or by an agent or agents, solicit, persuade, or
induce any employee to leave any employment in which the employment agent or the
employment agent's agents has placed the employee. Nor may any agent, personally
or through any agents, persuade or induce or solicit any employer to discharge any
employee.
7. No employment agent may knowingly cause to be printed or published a false or
fraudulent notice or advertisement for help or for obtaining work or employment.
8. No employment agent may place or assist in placing any person in unlawful
employment.
9. No employment agent may fail to state in any advertisement, proposal, or contract for
employment that there is a strike or lockout at the place of proposed employment, if
the agent has knowledge that such condition exists.
10. Any person who splits, divides, or shares, directly or indirectly, any fee, charge, or
compensation received from any employee with any employer, or person in any way
connected with the business thereof, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.