RCW 49.97.020: Definitions.

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

(1) "Affected worker" means a worker identified by the federal agency inspection results to be a worker who may lack federal work authorization, or a worker whose federal work authorization documents or form I-9 have been identified by the federal agency inspection results to have deficiencies.

(2) "Employ" means to suffer or permit to work.

(3) "Employer" means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, business trust, legal representative, or other business entity which engages in any business, industry, profession, or activity in this state and employs one or more workers, and includes the state, any state institution, state agency, political subdivisions of the state, and any municipal corporation or quasi-municipal corporation.

(4) "Federal agency" means an agency of the United States government that enforces or aids in enforcing United States federal civil immigration laws or employment eligibility inspections, including but not limited to any person or class of persons authorized to perform the functions of an immigration officer as defined in the immigration and nationality act, without regard to the agency for whom the person is employed. Officials from the United States department of homeland security, department of justice immigrant and employee rights section or its successor, and department of labor are included in this definition when on duty.

(5) "Form I-9" refers to the United States citizenship and immigration services employment eligibility verification form used by employers to comply with 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1324a(b) to verify the identity and work authorization of employees or any successor form used by employers for the same purposes under federal law.

(6) "Worker" means any person employed by an employer.

(7) "Worker records" means documentation that includes a worker's first name or first initial and last name in combination with any one or more of the following data elements: (a) Social security number; (b) driver's license number or Washington identification card number; (c) residential address; (d) student, military, or passport identification number; (e) biometric data generated by automatic measurements of an individual's biological characteristics such as a fingerprint, voiceprint, eye retinas, irises, or other unique biological patterns or characteristics that is used to identify a specific individual; (f) information that includes a geolocation component that could be used to identify a worker's location. "Worker records" also includes documentation that includes the first name or first initial and last name of a family member of a worker in combination with the data elements outlined in this subsection.

(8) "Worker's authorized representative" means an exclusive collective bargaining representative.