HB1604 Summary: Day and Temporary Labor Services Act Amendments

• Requires day and temporary labor service agencies to provide application receipts to applicants and employment notices to assigned workers containing job details, wages, location, transportation terms, and meal/equipment costs.

• Grants day and temporary laborers the right to refuse assignments to locations with strikes, lockouts, or labor disputes, with written notice of that right required before dispatch.

• Establishes equal pay requirement: laborers assigned to the same third party client for more than one week must receive average pay and equivalent benefits as directly hired employees performing the same or substantially similar work.

• Prohibits abusive contracts limiting workers' ability to enforce rights under the Act; requires contracts be in writing with original signatures, signed by all binding parties, expire after assignment ends, and be fully unenforceable if any provision is deemed invalid.

• Creates private right of action for day/temporary laborers and "interested parties" (labor organizations, nonprofits, competitors, family members) to sue for wage violations, health and safety violations, and retaliation, with statutory damages ranging from $100-$1,000 per violation and attorney's fees recoverable.