Thread: People Hiring Day Laborers May Have To Register

VISTA, Calif. -- Would-be employers who wish to hire day laborers from street corners or parking lots in the city of Vista may soon have to register with the city, display a registration certificate in their car window, and present short-term workers with written terms of employment.

The City Council will consider an ordinance that would regulate the hiring of day laborers at a Tuesday council meeting.

City Attorney Darold Pieper said the proposed law is meant to benefit day laborers.

"The goal of the statute is to protect workers and to deter hiring by people who are going to abuse, mistreat and otherwise cause problems with day laborers," said Pieper. If approved, he said, Vista's ordinance would be unique.


The ordinance would be enforced by sheriff's deputies and code enforcement officers, Pieper said. Violations would be misdemeanors punishable by no more than six months imprisonment or $1,000 fine.

Claudia Smith, an Oceanside migrant rights attorney and director of the California Rural Legal Aid Foundation's Border Project, said the proposal was disingenuous.

"It would be touching, all this concern about the day laborers, if that were the real motivation," she said. "In effect, what the ordinance would do is shut down day-labor sites."

Assistant City Manager Rick Dudley said last week that the number of day laborers waiting at shopping centers in Vista has doubled in the past year.


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