When a contractor obtains workers from a temporary services (staffing) agency, who is generally responsible for paying those workers' wages?
Explanation
Labor Code §201.3(b)(1)(A) makes the temporary services employer — the staffing agency that is the employer of record — pay wages no less frequently than weekly, with each calendar week's wages due by the regular payday of the following week. The client contractor is not the paying employer, so neither its monthly cycle nor its paydays governs, and the agency's duty does not wait on the client: being paid by the client is not a condition of paying the workers.
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