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Section 9-302 – Reprimands, Suspensions, and Revocations — Grounds; Penalty

    An employment agency may not:         (1)    knowingly refer a client to a job if any condition of the job violates any law;         (2)    refer a client to an establishment where a labor dispute exists;         (3)    as a condition of providing service to a client, require the client before acceptance of a job to execute:             (i)    a promissory note; or […]

Section 9-303 – Records

    Each employment agency shall keep a detailed record of:         (1)    each job order from an employer; and         (2)    each referral that the employment agency makes on a job order.

Section 9-304 – Advertisements

    (a)    Each employment agency shall keep a file of all job advertisements that identifies each advertisement by:         (1)    its date; and         (2)    the publication where the advertisement appears.     (b)    Each employment agency:         (1)    shall indicate on each advertisement and on all other promotional material the name of the employment agency; and         (2)    except in an advertisement that appears in a classified […]

Section 9-305 – Contracts and Forms

    (a)    Each employment agency shall indicate, on each form that the employment agency uses, that it is an employment agency.     (b)    In a contract between an employment agency and a client, the term “acceptance of position by applicant” means:         (1)    commencement of work by a client; or         (2)    an agreement between a client and employer for the client to […]

Section 9-306 – Temporary Placement Fees

    (a)    If, within 90 days after a client starts a job, the client is discharged through no fault of the client or leaves the job voluntarily with just cause, an employment agency may charge the client a temporary placement fee of up to the lesser of:         (1)    20% of the total compensation the client received; or         (2)    75% […]

Section 9-307 – Collection of Placement Fee Limited

    If, for a pay period, the pay of an employee placed by an employment agency is not more than the minimum wage under § 3-413 of the Labor and Employment Article, the employment agency may not collect or attempt to collect more than 20% of its placement fee from the employee’s pay for the pay […]

Section 9-308 – Reimbursement of Client

    Within 24 hours after a client demands reimbursement for ordinary and necessary travel expenses incurred as a result of a referral, an employment agency shall reimburse the client if the client did not obtain employment and:         (1)    the employment agency sent the client to an employer for a job for which the employment agency had no […]

Section 9-309 – Documents Provided to Clients

    (a)    When an employment agency and a client execute a contract or other document, the employment agency shall give the client a copy of the document.     (b)    For each fee that an employment agency receives from a client, the employment agency shall give the client a receipt that states:         (1)    the name of the client;         (2)    the date of […]