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Md. Code, Labor and Employment § 7-102

This is the official text of Md. Code, Labor and Employment § 7-102, part of Maryland’s Code, Labor and Employment — governs wages, workplace safety, and employee rights.

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§7–102.

Official statutory text

(a) This title does not apply:

(1) to a common carrier or an employee of a common carrier solely because it transports a migrant agricultural worker;

(2) to a custom grain combine, hay harvesting, or sheep shearing operation or to an employee of the operation while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the operation;

(3) to an individual who performs farm labor contracting services, or an employee of the individual while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the individual, within a 25–mile intrastate radius of the permanent place of residence of the individual and not exceeding 13 weeks a year;

(4) to an agricultural operation when engaging a farm labor contractor through the Maryland Department of Labor; or

(5) to an individual who performs farm labor contracting services only for a farm or a cannery, packing shed, seed conditioning establishment, or other processing establishment, if:

(i) the individual or an immediate family member of the individual exclusively owns and operates the farm or establishment; and

(ii) only the individual and immediate family members of the individual perform farm labor contracting services for the farm or establishment.

(b) This title does not apply:

(1) to any person other than a farm labor contractor to whom no more than 10 migrant agricultural workers are provided at any time during the current and preceding calendar years;

(2) to an individual while acting as an employee of an agricultural operation that is excluded under item (1) of this subsection; or

(3) to a custom operation for poultry harvesting, breeding, debeaking, sexing, or health service or to an employee of the operation while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the operation, unless the operation regularly requires an employee to be absent during nonworking hours from the domicile of the employee.

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