# WAC 296-125-015: WAC 296-125-015. Definitions > Washington · Regulations · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_015 ## Section - **Citation:** WAC 296-125-015 - **Heading:** WAC 296-125-015. Definitions - **Jurisdiction:** Washington - **Kind:** Regulations - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** Washington Administrative Code / Title 296 / Chapter 296-125 / Section 296-125-015 ## Text For the purposes of this chapter: (1) "Department" means the Washington state department of labor and industries. (2) "Employ" means to engage, suffer or permit to work, and includes entering into any arrangement, including a contract, whether implied, express, oral, or written, with a minor whereby the minor works in house-to-house sales except when a minor is working in house-to-house sales for her or his parent or stepparent. The term "employ" does not include newspaper vendors or carriers, the use of domestic or casual labor in or about private residences, agricultural labor as defined by RCW 50.04.150 , or the use of voluntary or donated services performed for an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization and without expectation or contemplation of compensation for the services performed. (3) "Employee" means any minor employed by an employer, including minors who work pursuant to any arrangement, including contract, whether implied, express, oral, or written in house-to-house sales, but does not include newspaper vendors or carriers, domestic or casual labor in or about private residences, minors employed in agricultural labor as defined by RCW 50.04.150 , or minors employed for house-to-house sales by their parents or stepparents. (4) "Employer" means any person, association, partnership, private or public corporation that employs or exercises control over the wages, hours, working conditions, or workplace of a minor, and for purposes of house-to-house sales includes any distributor or other person, association, partnership, private or public corporation that enters into any arrangement, including contract, whether implied, express, oral, or written, with a minor whereby the minor works in house-to-house sales; but does not include employers of agricultural labor as defined by RCW 50.04.150 , employers of newspaper vendors or carriers, employers of casual labor in or about the employers' private residences, parents or stepparents employing their own minor children for house-to-house sale ng contract, whether implied, express, oral, or written, with a minor whereby the minor works in house-to-house sales; but does not include employers of agricultural labor as defined by RCW 50.04.150 , employers of newspaper vendors or carriers, employers of casual labor in or about the employers' private residences, parents or stepparents employing their own minor children for house-to-house sales, the state, a state institution, a state agency, a political subdivision of the state, a municipal corporation, or a quasi-municipal corporation. (5) "House-to-house sales" means a sale or other transaction in consumer goods, the demonstration of products or equipment, the obtaining of orders for consumer goods, or the obtaining of contracts for services, in which an employee personally solicits the sale or transaction at a place other than the place of business of the employer or the residence of the employee. (6) "Minor" means a person under the age of eighteen years. (7) "School holiday" means a day of a school week on which the school at which a minor employee is enrolled is scheduled to be closed. If a minor employee is not enrolled in school, school holidays shall be determined by the schedule of the public school district in which the minor resides. (8) "School vacation" means the spring break, winter break, and summer break of the school at which a minor employee is enrolled, or if not enrolled the public school district in which a minor resides. (9) "Transport" means the conveyance, provision of a means of conveyance, or reimbursement or payment for the cost of conveyance at the direction or under the control of an employer or an employer's agent. (10) "Workplace" means any worksite, premises, or location where minors work. ## Nearby sections - [WAC 296-125-010 WAC 296-125-010. Applicability](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_010.md) - [WAC 296-125-015 WAC 296-125-015. Definitions](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_015.md) - [WAC 296-125-018 WAC 296-125-018. Minimum age for employment](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_018.md) - [WAC 296-125-024 WAC 296-125-024. House-to-house sales](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_024.md) - [WAC 296-125-027 WAC 296-125-027. Hours of work for minors](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_027.md) - [WAC 296-125-030 WAC 296-125-030. Prohibited and hazardous employment—All minors](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_030.md) - [WAC 296-125-033 WAC 296-125-033. Prohibited and hazardous employment—Special restrictions for minors under the age of 16](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_033.md) - [WAC 296-125-043 WAC 296-125-043. Minimum wages—Minors](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_043.md) - [WAC 296-125-0200 WAC 296-125-0200. If I plan to employ minors in my business, what general requirements do I have to satisfy?](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_0200.md) - [WAC 296-125-0210 WAC 296-125-0210. Do I need minor work permit endorsements for my business?](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_0210.md) - [WAC 296-125-0211 WAC 296-125-0211. What if I employ minors at several different workplaces?](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_0211.md) - [WAC 296-125-0220 WAC 296-125-0220. Are there working condition restrictions which may be placed on my minor work permit endorsements?](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_0220.md) - [WAC 296-125-0221 WAC 296-125-0221. Do my minor work permit endorsements expire?](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_0221.md) - [WAC 296-125-0222 WAC 296-125-0222. Can I renew my minor work permit endorsements?](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_0222.md) --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_ADC_296_125_015. Check the current official text before relying on it. Not legal advice.