Definition of Terms.
Article 13
ART. 13. Definition of Terms. — (a) "Private fee-charging employment agency" means any individual or entity engaged in the business of recruitment and placement of workers for a fee, whether the fee is charged from the workers or from the employers or both. "Private non-fee-charging employment agency" refers to any individual or entity engaged in the recruitment and placement of workers free of charge, whether from the workers or from the employers or both. "Recruitment" refers to any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, transporting, utilizing, hiring or procuring workers, including referrals, contact services, promising employment or advertising for employment locally or abroad whether for profit or not: Provided, That whenever two or more persons are in any manner promised or offered employment for a fee, the individual or entity making such offer or promise shall be deemed engaged in recruitment. "Worker" or "Employee" includes any individual employed by an employer or any person hired to perform service of any kind for a valuable consideration, including household or domestic helpers and crew members of vessels or seamen. "Immigrant worker" means any person who works in a foreign country by virtue of an immigrant visa or resident permit as distinguished from a work permit or working visa. "License" means a document issued to an individual or entity by the Department of Labor authorizing such individual or entity to operate private fee-charging employment agency. "Authority" refers to the document issued to any person or entity by the Department of Labor authorizing such person or entity to operate a private non-fee-charging employment agency. "Seamen" includes all persons employed on any vessel engaged in maritime navigation.