Under Labor Code §201.3, a temporary services employer that assigns workers to a contractor must generally pay those workers:
Explanation
Labor Code §201.3(b)(1) requires a temporary services employer to pay its assigned employees weekly, with the prior calendar week's wages due on a regular designated payday, whatever the length of the assignment. (d) is the general rule for everyone else - §204's twice-monthly payday - and it is the tempting answer precisely because it is the default a payroll service applies. (b) is slower still. (a) holds the wages to the end of the assignment, which on a long job can be months and is the practice §201.3 was enacted to stop. Day-to-day and same-day assignments have their own faster rules in §201.3(b)(4) and (b)(5).
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