We held hearings on the act in February 1978. and again in December 1978. We established in those hearings a clear record showing the need to clarify who is a farm labor contractor. The Department of Labor says for the purposes of the FLCRA. any employee in agriculture and many processing plant employees are migrant workers. regardless of whether they are permanent. local. transient. seasonal. or otherwise or whether they return home overnight or not. Such an interpretation is a far stretch from what we intended. This bill defines the term "migrant worker" to mean migrant worker. including the dayhaul worker. This bill would also clarify the definition of farm labor contractor so that it does not include farmers or other fixedbase agricultural employers. or their full time or regular employees. or farmer cooperatives. This is consistent with the amendments to the act in 1974 when we explicitly intended farmers and other agricultural employers and cooperatives and their employees not to be regulated under this act as farm labor contractors or crew leaders.