[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR654.400]

[Page 450]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 654--SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart E--Housing for Agricultural Workers
 
Sec. 654.400  Scope and purpose.

    Authority: 29 U.S.C. 49k; 8 U.S.C. 1188(c)(4); 41 Op.A.G. 406 
(1959).

    Source: 45 FR 14182, Mar. 4, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

                        Purpose and Applicability


    (a) This subpart sets forth the Employment and Training 
Administration standards for agricultural housing. Local Job Service 
offices, as part of the State employment service agencies and in 
cooperation with the United States Employment Service, assist employers 
in recruiting agricultural workers from places outside the area of 
intended employment. The experiences of the employment service indicate 
that employees so referred have on many occasions been provided with 
inadequate, unsafe, and unsanitary housing conditions. To discourage 
this practice, it is the policy of the Federal-State employment service 
system, as set forth in Sec. 653.108 of this chapter, to deny its 
intrastate and interstate recruitment services to employers until the 
State employment service agency has ascertained that the employer's 
housing meets certain standards.
    (b) To implement this policy, Sec. 653.108 of this chapter provides 
that recruitment services shall be denied unless the employer has signed 
an assurance, a preoccupancy inspection has been conducted and the ES 
staff has ascertained that, with respect to intrastate clearance, if the 
workers are to be housed, the employer's housing meets or, with respect 
to interstate clearance, that the employer will provide housing for the 
workers which meets either the full set of standards set forth at 29 CFR 
1910.142 or the full set of standards set forth in this subpart. 
Whichever is applicable under the criteria set forth in Sec. 654.401; 
except that for mobile range housing for sheepherders, the housing shall 
meet existing Departmental guidelines.

[45 FR 14182, Mar. 4, 1980; 45 FR 22901, Apr. 4, 1980]