Whether you are helping manage the labor needs of a small or large farm in California, you have responsibilities and duties as a farm labor contractor. You need to ensure your employees are working diligently while still being safe, and you need to make sure your employees are paid their wages on time.

To ensure these responsibilities are met, the state of California Department of Industrial Relations requires all California farm labor contractors to hold a California Farm Labor Contractor Bond.

If you are unsure if you need to get licensed and bonded, check out the Rules and Regulations for FLCs.

Did you know there are over 35,000 farms in Oregon, equally to over 16.5 million acres of farm land? Those farms don’t just run themselves; farm workers are hard at work every day tending to the labor needs of all those farms across the state.

Farm labor contractors are the ones who manage those workers and ensure farm work is completed well and properly.

Both farm and forest labor contractors are required to be licensed by the State of Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) under Oregon’s Farm Labor Contractor Law.

Farm labor contractors act as the ‘middle persons’ between farmers and farm workers. Any person who is paid or promised to be paid for recruiting, soliciting, hiring, employing, furnishing, or transporting any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker is considered to be a farm labor contractor. If you are thinking of becoming a farm labor contractor in Idaho, you will first need to get licensed.

Short on time? Check out our Contractor’s License FAQ page.