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  • California Labor Code Section 1
    This act shall be known as the Labor Code.
  • California Labor Code Section 2
    The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 3
    All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...
  • California Labor Code Section 4
    No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
  • California Labor Code Section 5
    Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this code.
  • California Labor Code Section 6
    Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7
    Whenever, by the provisions of this code, an administrative power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an officer, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 8
    Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement or record is required by this...
  • California Labor Code Section 9
    Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, such reference shall apply to all...
  • California Labor Code Section 10
    "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned.
  • California Labor Code Section 11
    The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
  • California Labor Code Section 12
    The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
  • California Labor Code Section 12.1
    The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the terms "man" or "men" where appropriate shall be deemed "person" or "persons" and any references to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 13
    The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
  • California Labor Code Section 14
    "County" includes "city and county."
  • California Labor Code Section 15
    "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
  • California Labor Code Section 16
    "Oath" includes affirmation.
  • California Labor Code Section 17
    "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
  • California Labor Code Section 18
    "Person" means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation.
  • California Labor Code Section 18.5
    "Agency" means the Labor and Workforce Development Agency.
  • California Labor Code Section 19
    "Department" means Department of Industrial Relations.
  • California Labor Code Section 19.5
    "Secretary" means the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.
  • California Labor Code Section 20
    "Director" means Director of Industrial Relations.
  • California Labor Code Section 21
    "Labor Commissioner" means Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
  • California Labor Code Section 22
    "Violation" includes a failure to comply with any requirement of the code.
  • California Labor Code Section 23
    Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed, every offense declared by this code to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a...
  • California Labor Code Section 24
    If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid the remainder of the code, and the...
  • California Labor Code Section 25
    "Sheriff" includes "marshal."
  • California Labor Code Section 26
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, no person who has not previously obtained a license regulated by this code shall be denied a license...
  • California Labor Code Section 27
    Whenever the term "workers' compensation judge" or "workers' compensation referee" is used in this code in connection with the workers' compensation law, the term shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 28
    For injuries occurring on and after January 1, 1991, whenever the term "independent medical examiner" is used in this code, the term shall mean "qualified...
  • California Labor Code Section 29
    "Medical director" means the physician appointed by the administrative director pursuant to Section 122.
  • California Labor Code Section 29.5
    The Governor shall annually issue a proclamation declaring April 28 as Workers' Memorial Day in remembrance of the courage and integrity of American workers, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 50
    There is in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency the Department of Industrial Relations.
  • California Labor Code Section 50.5
    One of the functions of the Department of Industrial Relations is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California, to...
  • California Labor Code Section 50.6
    The Department of Industrial Relations may assist and cooperate with the Wage and Hour Division, and the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor, in...
  • California Labor Code Section 50.7
    (a) The Department of Industrial Relations is the state agency designated to be responsible for administering the state plan for the development and enforcement of...
  • California Labor Code Section 50.8
    The department shall develop a long range program for upgrading and expanding the resources of the State of California in the area of occupational health...
  • California Labor Code Section 50.9
    In furtherance of the provisions of Section 50.5, the director, or the Director of Employment Development, may comment on the impact of actions or projects...
  • California Labor Code Section 51
    The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as Director of Industrial Relations. The Director of Industrial Relations shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 52
    Except as otherwise prescribed in this code, the provisions of the Government Code relating to departments of the State shall govern and apply to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 53
    Whenever in Section 1001 or in Part 1 (commencing with Section 11000) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code "head of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 54
    The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by...
  • California Labor Code Section 54.5
    The director may appoint an attorney and assistants licensed to practice law in this state. In the absence of an appointment, the attorney for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 55
    For the purpose of administration the director shall organize the department subject to the approval of the Governor, in the manner he deems necessary properly...
  • California Labor Code Section 56
    The work of the department shall be divided into at least five divisions known as the Division of Workers' Compensation, the Division of Occupational Safety...
  • California Labor Code Section 57
    Each division shall be in charge of a chief who shall be appointed by the Governor and shall receive a salary fixed in accordance with...
  • California Labor Code Section 57.1
    (a) The Chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall receive an annual salary as provided by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550)...
  • California Labor Code Section 57.5
    All duties, powers, and jurisdiction relating to the administration of the State Compensation Insurance Fund shall be vested in the Board of Directors of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 58
    The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property, real or personal,...
  • California Labor Code Section 59
    The department through its appropriate officers shall administer and enforce all laws imposing any duty, power, or function upon the offices or officers of the
  • California Labor Code Section 60
    Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of Divisions 4 and 4.5 of this code shall be administered and enforced by the Division of Workers' Compensation.
  • California Labor Code Section 60.5
    (a) The provisions of Part 1 of Division 5 of this code shall be administered and enforced by the department through the Division of Occupational...
  • California Labor Code Section 60.6
    All persons serving in the state civil service in the Division of Industrial Safety or in the Occupational Health Branch of the State Department of...
  • California Labor Code Section 60.7
    The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, licenses,...
  • California Labor Code Section 60.8
    The Division of Occupational Safety and Health may expend money appropriated for the administration of the laws the enforcement of which is committed to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 60.9
    There is within the Division of Occupational Safety and Health an occupational health unit and an occupational safety unit, which shall assist in the performance...
  • California Labor Code Section 61
    The provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1171) of Part 4 of Division 2 shall be administered and enforced by the department through the...
  • California Labor Code Section 62
    The department may expend money appropriated for the administration of the provisions of the laws, the enforcement of which is committed to the department. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 62.5
    (a) (1) The Workers' Compensation Administration Revolving Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury. Money in the fund may be...
  • California Labor Code Section 62.6
    (a) The director shall levy and collect assessments from employers in accordance with subdivision (b), as necessary, to collect the aggregate amount determined by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 62.7
    (a) The Cal-OSHA Targeted Inspection and Consultation Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury. Proceeds of the fund may be...
  • California Labor Code Section 62.9
    (a) (1) The director shall levy and collect assessments from employers in accordance with this section. The total amount of the assessment collected shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 63
    The Director may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by the department in payment of license fees or for other services in cases...
  • California Labor Code Section 64
    The Labor Commissioner may enter into reciprocal agreements with the labor department or corresponding agency of any other state or with the person, board, officer,...
  • California Labor Code Section 64.5
    When requested by the State Board of Equalization, the department may permit any duly authorized representative of that agency to transmit to the State Board...
  • California Labor Code Section 66
    The services of the department pursuant to Section 65 shall be conducted by a unit within the department to be known as the California State...
  • California Labor Code Section 67
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the director may seek and collect reimbursement from private and public sector employers, labor unions, and employee organizations for election,...
  • California Labor Code Section 70
    There is in the Department of Industrial Relations the Industrial Welfare Commission which consists of five members. The members of the commission shall be appointed...
  • California Labor Code Section 70.1
    The Industrial Welfare Commission shall be composed of two representatives of organized labor who are members of recognized labor organizations, two representatives of employers, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 71
    The term of office of the members of the Industrial Welfare Commission shall be four years and they shall hold office until the appointment and...
  • California Labor Code Section 72
    The members of the commission shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for each day's actual attendance at meetings and other official business of the commission...
  • California Labor Code Section 73
    The Industrial Welfare Commission may employ necessary assistants, officers, experts, and such other employees as it deems necessary. All such personnel of the commission shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 74
    The Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, for the purpose of enforcing Industrial Welfare Commission orders and provisions of this code, may issue...
  • California Labor Code Section 75
    (a) There is in the department the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation. The commission shall be composed of eight voting members. Four...
  • California Labor Code Section 76
    The commission may employ officers, assistants, experts, and other employees it deems necessary. All personnel of the commission shall be under the supervision of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 77
    (a) The commission shall conduct a continuing examination of the workers' compensation system, as defined in Section 4 of Article XIV of the California Constitution,...
  • California Labor Code Section 77.5
    (a) On or before July 1, 2004, the commission shall conduct a survey and evaluation of evidence-based, peer-reviewed, nationally recognized standards of care, including existing...
  • California Labor Code Section 77.7
    (a) A study shall be undertaken to examine the causes of the number of insolvencies among workers' compensation insurers within the past 10 years. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 78
    (a) The commission shall review and approve applications from employers and employee organizations, as well as applications submitted jointly by an employer organization and an...
  • California Labor Code Section 79
    There is in the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall be under the direction...
  • California Labor Code Section 80
    The headquarters of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, hereafter in this chapter referred to as the division, shall be located in San Francisco.
  • California Labor Code Section 81
    The employees of the division shall devote their full time to the work of the division and shall receive their actual necessary traveling expenses. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 82
    (a) The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement succeeds to, and is vested with, all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Division...
  • California Labor Code Section 83
    (a) The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement succeeds to, and is vested with, all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Division...
  • California Labor Code Section 87
    All persons, other than temporary employees, serving in the state civil service and engaged in the performance of a function transferred pursuant to this chapter,...
  • California Labor Code Section 88
    The personnel records of all employees transferred pursuant to Section 87 shall remain in the Department of Industrial Relations.
  • California Labor Code Section 89
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other...
  • California Labor Code Section 89.5
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by...
  • California Labor Code Section 90
    The Labor Commissioner, his deputies and agents, shall have free access to all places of labor. Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who refuses...
  • California Labor Code Section 90.3
    (a) It is the policy of this state to vigorously enforce the laws requiring employers to secure the payment of compensation as required by Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 90.5
    (a) It is the policy of this state to vigorously enforce minimum labor standards in order to ensure employees are not required or permitted to...
  • California Labor Code Section 90.7
    When the division determines that an employer has violated Section 226.2, 1021, 1021.5, 1197, or 1771, or otherwise determines that an employer may have failed...
  • California Labor Code Section 91
    Any person who willfully impedes or prevents the Labor Commissioner or his deputies or agents in the performance of duty, is guilty of a misdemeanor,...
  • California Labor Code Section 92
    The Labor Commissioner, his deputies and agents, may issue subpenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and parties and the production of books, papers and...
  • California Labor Code Section 93
    Obedience to subpoenas issued by the Labor Commissioner, or his deputies or agents shall be enforced by the courts. It is a misdemeanor to ignore...
  • California Labor Code Section 94
    The office of the division shall be open for business from 9 o' clock a.m. until 5 o'clock p.m. every day except nonjudicial days, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 95
    (a) The division may enforce the provisions of this code and all labor laws of the state the enforcement of which is not specifically vested...
  • California Labor Code Section 96
    The Labor Commissioner and his or her deputies and representatives authorized by him or her in writing shall, upon the filing of a claim therefor...
  • California Labor Code Section 96.3
    In cases where employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the collective bargaining representative by virtue of such agreement may be the assignee of...
  • California Labor Code Section 96.5
    The Labor Commissioner shall conduct such hearings as may be necessary for the purpose of Section 7071.11 of the Business and Professions Code. In any...
  • California Labor Code Section 96.6
    The Industrial Relations Unpaid Wage Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury, which is continuously appropriated for the purposes of...
  • California Labor Code Section 96.7
    The Labor Commissioner, after investigation and upon determination that wages or monetary benefits are due and unpaid to any worker in the State of California,...
  • California Labor Code Section 97
    The Labor Commissioner, his deputies and representatives shall not be bound by any rule requiring the consent of the spouse of a married claimant, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 98
    (a) The Labor Commissioner is authorized to investigate employee complaints. The Labor Commissioner may provide for a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties,...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.1
    (a) Within 15 days after the hearing is concluded, the Labor Commissioner shall file in the office of the division a copy of the order,...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.2
    (a) Within 10 days after service of notice of an order, decision, or award the parties may seek review by filing an appeal to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.3
    (a) The Labor Commissioner may prosecute all actions for the collection of wages, penalties, and demands of persons who in the judgment of the Labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.4
    The Labor Commissioner may, upon the request of a claimant financially unable to afford counsel, represent such claimant in the de novo proceedings provided for...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.5
    The Labor Commissioner shall have the right to intervene in any court proceedings conducted pursuant to Section 98.2 where questions of the interpretation of statutes...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.6
    (a) No person shall discharge an employee or in any manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant engaged...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.7
    (a) Any person who believes that he or she has been discharged or otherwise discriminated against in violation of any law under the jurisdiction of...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.75
    The Labor Commissioner shall submit a report to the Legislature by February 15, 1987, and annually thereafter by February 15, providing the following information with...
  • California Labor Code Section 98.8
    The Labor Commissioner shall promulgate all regulations and rules of practice and procedure necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 98.9
    Upon a finding by the Labor Commissioner that a willful or deliberate violation of any of the provisions of the Labor Code, within the jurisdiction...
  • California Labor Code Section 99
    The division may file preferred claims, mechanics' liens, and other liens of employees in the name of the Labor Commissioner, his deputy or representative or...
  • California Labor Code Section 100
    The division may join various claimants in one preferred claim or lien as well as list them with the data regarding their claims in an...
  • California Labor Code Section 100.5
    Preferred claims for work performed or personal services rendered are provided for in Sections 1204, 1205, 1206, 1207, and 1208 of the Code of Civil...
  • California Labor Code Section 101
    No court costs of any nature shall be payable by the division, in any civil action to which the division is a party. Any sheriff...
  • California Labor Code Section 101.5
    No fees shall be payable for the filing or recording of any document or paper in the performance of any official service by the Labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 102
    The sheriff or marshal shall specify when the summons or process is returned, what costs he or she would ordinarily have been entitled to for...
  • California Labor Code Section 103
    The Labor Commissioner shall, to the extent provided for by any reciprocal agreement entered into pursuant to Section 64, or by the laws of any...
  • California Labor Code Section 104
    The Labor Commissioner shall, upon the written request of the labor department or other corresponding agency of any other state or of any person, board,...
  • California Labor Code Section 105
    (a) The Labor Commissioner shall provide qualified bilingual persons in public contact positions or as interpreters to assist those in such positions to provide information...
  • California Labor Code Section 106
    (a) The Labor Commissioner may authorize an employee of any of the agencies that participate in the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy,...
  • California Labor Code Section 107
    (a) The enforcement of Section 14110.65 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is vested with the State Department of Health Services. (b) Any claim made...
  • California Labor Code Section 108
    (a) The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain minimum standards for the competency and training of electricians through...
  • California Labor Code Section 108.2
    (a) Persons who perform work as electricians shall become certified pursuant to Section 108. Uncertified persons shall not perform electrical work for which certification is...
  • California Labor Code Section 108.3
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall do all of the following: (a) Make information about electrician certification available in non-English languages spoken by a...
  • California Labor Code Section 108.4
    (a) An uncertified person may perform electrical work for which certification is required under Section 108 in order to acquire the necessary on-the-job experience for...
  • California Labor Code Section 108.5
    (a) The Electrician Certification Fund is established as a special account in the State Treasury. Proceeds of the fund may be expended by the department,...
  • California Labor Code Section 110
    As used in this chapter: (a) "Appeals board" means the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. The title of a member of the board is "commissioner." (b)...
  • California Labor Code Section 111
    The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, consisting of seven members, shall exercise all judicial powers vested in it under this code. In all other respects, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 112
    The members of the appeals board shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The term of office of...
  • California Labor Code Section 113
    The Governor shall designate the chairman of the appeals board from the membership of the appeals board. The person so designated shall hold the office...
  • California Labor Code Section 115
    Actions of the appeals board shall be taken by decision of a majority of the appeals board except as otherwise expressly provided. The chairman shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 116
    The seal of the appeals board bearing the inscription "Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Seal" shall be affixed to all writs and authentications of copies of...
  • California Labor Code Section 117
    The administrative director may appoint an attorney licensed to practice law in the state as counsel to the division.
  • California Labor Code Section 119
    The attorney shall: (a) Represent and appear for the state and the Division of Workers' Compensation and the appeals board in all actions and proceedings...
  • California Labor Code Section 120
    The administrative director and the chairman of the appeals board may each respectively appoint a secretary and assistant secretaries to perform such services as shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 121
    The chairman of the appeals board may authorize its secretary and any two assistant secretaries to act as deputy appeals board members and may delegate...
  • California Labor Code Section 122
    The administrative director shall appoint a medical director who shall possess a physician's and surgeon's certificate granted under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of...
  • California Labor Code Section 123
    The administrative director may employ necessary assistants, officers, experts, statisticians, actuaries, accountants, workers' compensation administrative law judges, stenographic shorthand reporters, legal secretaries, disability evaluation raters,...
  • California Labor Code Section 123.3
    Any official reporter employed by the administrative director shall render stenographic or clerical assistance as directed by the presiding workers' compensation administrative law judge of...
  • California Labor Code Section 123.5
    (a) Workers' compensation administrative law judges employed by the administrative director shall be taken from an eligible list of attorneys licensed to practice law in...
  • California Labor Code Section 123.6
    (a) All workers' compensation administrative law judges employed by the administrative director shall subscribe to the Code of Judicial Ethics adopted by the Supreme Court...
  • California Labor Code Section 123.7
    The appeals board may, by rule or regulation, establish procedures whereby attorneys who are either certified specialists in workers' compensation by the California State Bar,...
  • California Labor Code Section 124
    (a) In administering and enforcing this division and Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200), the division shall protect the interests of injured workers who are...
  • California Labor Code Section 125
    The administrative director shall cause to be printed and furnished free of charge to any person blank forms that may facilitate or promote the efficient...
  • California Labor Code Section 126
    The Division of Workers' Compensation, including the administrative director and the appeals board, shall keep minutes of all their proceedings and other books or records...
  • California Labor Code Section 127
    The administrative director may do all of the following: (a) Charge and collect fees for copies of papers and records, for certified copies of official...
  • California Labor Code Section 127.6
    (a) The administrative director shall, in consultation with the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation, other state agencies, and researchers and research institutions...
  • California Labor Code Section 128
    The appeals board may accept appointment as deputy commissioner under, or any delegation of authority to enforce, the United States Longshoremen's and Harbor Worker's Compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 129
    (a) To make certain that injured workers, and their dependents in the event of their death, receive promptly and accurately the full measure of compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 129.5
    (a) The administrative director may assess an administrative penalty against an insurer, self-insured employer, or third-party administrator for any of the following: (1) Failure to...
  • California Labor Code Section 130
    The appeals board and each of its members, its secretary, assistant secretaries, and workers' compensation judges, may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 131
    Each witness who appears by order of the appeals board or any of its members, or a workers' compensation judge, shall receive, if demanded, for...
  • California Labor Code Section 132
    The superior court in and for the county in which any proceeding is held by the appeals board or a workers' compensation judge may compel...
  • California Labor Code Section 132a
    It is the declared policy of this state that there should not be discrimination against workers who are injured in the course and scope of...
  • California Labor Code Section 133
    The Division of Workers' Compensation, including the administrative director and the appeals board, shall have power and jurisdiction to do all things necessary or convenient...
  • California Labor Code Section 134
    The appeals board or any member thereof may issue writs or summons, warrants of attachment, warrants of commitment and all necessary process in proceedings for...
  • California Labor Code Section 135
    In accordance with rules of practice and procedure that it may adopt, the appeals board may, with the approval of the Department of Finance, destroy...
  • California Labor Code Section 138
    The administrative director may appoint a deputy to act when he or she is absent from the state due to official business, vacation, or illness.
  • California Labor Code Section 138.1
    The administrative director shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall hold office at the pleasure of...
  • California Labor Code Section 138.2
    (a) The headquarters of the Division of Workers' Compensation shall be based at and operated from a centrally located city. The administrative director shall have...
  • California Labor Code Section 138.3
    The administrative director shall, with respect to all injuries, prescribe, pursuant to Section 5402, reasonable rules and regulations requiring the employer to serve notice on...
  • California Labor Code Section 138.4
    (a) For the purpose of this section, "claims administrator" means a self-administered workers' compensation insurer; or a self-administered self-insured employer; or a self-administered legally uninsured...
  • California Labor Code Section 138.5
    The Division of Workers' Compensation shall cooperate in the enforcement of child support obligations. At the request of the Department of Child Support Services, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 138.6
    (a) The administrative director, in consultation with the Insurance Commissioner and the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, shall develop a cost-efficient workers' compensation information system,...
  • California Labor Code Section 138.65
    (a) The administrative director, after consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, shall contract with a qualified organization to study the effects of the 2003 and 2004...
  • California Labor Code Section 138.7
    (a) Except as expressly permitted in subdivision (b), a person or public or private entity not a party to a claim for workers' compensation benefits...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.2
    (a) The administrative director shall appoint qualified medical evaluators in each of the respective specialties as required for the evaluation of medical-legal issues. The appointments...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.3
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, to the extent those services are paid pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200), it is unlawful for a...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.31
    The prohibition of Section 139.3 shall not apply to or restrict any of the following: (a) A physician may refer a patient for a good...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.32
    (a) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) "Financial interest in another entity" means, subject to subdivision (h), either of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.4
    (a) The administrative director may review advertising copy to ensure compliance with Section 651 of the Business and Professions Code and may require qualified medical...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.43
    (a) No person or entity shall advertise, print, display, publish, distribute, or broadcast, or cause or permit to be advertised, printed, displayed, published, distributed, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.45
    (a) In promulgating regulations pursuant to Sections 139.4 and 139.43, the administrative director shall take particular care to preclude any advertisements with respect to industrial...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.47
    The Director of Industrial Relations shall establish and maintain a program to encourage, facilitate, and educate employers to provide early and sustained return to work...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.48
    There shall be in the department a return-to-work program administered by the director, funded by one hundred twenty million dollars ($120,000,000) annually derived from non-General...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.5
    (a) (1) The administrative director shall contract with one or more independent medical review organizations and one or more independent bill review organizations to conduct...
  • California Labor Code Section 139.6
    (a) The administrative director shall establish and effect within the Division of Workers' Compensation a continuing program to provide information and assistance concerning the rights,...
  • California Labor Code Section 140
    (a) There is in the Department of Industrial Relations, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board which consists of seven members who shall be appointed...
  • California Labor Code Section 141
    (a) The terms of office of the members of the board shall be four years and they shall hold office until the appointment and qualification...
  • California Labor Code Section 142
    The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall enforce all occupational safety and health standards adopted pursuant to this chapter, and those heretofore adopted by...
  • California Labor Code Section 142.1
    The board shall meet at least monthly. The meetings shall be rotated throughout the state at locations designated by the chairman. All meetings held by...
  • California Labor Code Section 142.2
    At each of its meetings, the board shall make time available to interested persons to propose new or revised orders or standards appropriate for adoption...
  • California Labor Code Section 142.3
    (a) (1) The board, by an affirmative vote of at least four members, may adopt, amend or repeal occupational safety and health standards and orders....
  • California Labor Code Section 142.4
    (a) Occupational safety and health standards and orders shall be adopted, amended, or repealed as provided in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part...
  • California Labor Code Section 142.7
    (a) On or before October 1, 1987, the board shall adopt an occupational safety and health standard concerning hazardous substance removal work, so as to...
  • California Labor Code Section 143
    (a) Any employer may apply to the board for a permanent variance from an occupational safety and health standard, order, special order, or portion thereof,...
  • California Labor Code Section 143.1
    The board shall conduct hearings on such requests for a permanent variance after employees or employee representatives are properly notified and given an opportunity to...
  • California Labor Code Section 143.2
    The board, acting as a whole, may adopt, amend, or repeal rules of practice and procedure pertaining to hearings on applications for permanent variances, variance...
  • California Labor Code Section 144
    (a) The authority of any agency, department, division, bureau or any other political subdivision other than the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to assist...
  • California Labor Code Section 144.5
    (a) The Division of Occupational Safety and Health in connection with the enforcement of occupational safety and health standards adopted pursuant to this chapter shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 144.6
    In promulgating standards dealing with toxic materials or harmful physical agents, the board shall adopt that standard which most adequately assures, to the extent feasible,...
  • California Labor Code Section 144.7
    (a) The board shall, no later than January 15, 1999, adopt an emergency regulation revising the bloodborne pathogen standard currently set forth in Section 5193...
  • California Labor Code Section 145
    The board may employ necessary assistants, officers, experts, and such other employees as it deems necessary. All such personnel of the board shall be under...
  • California Labor Code Section 145.1
    The board and its duly authorized representatives in the performance of its duties shall have the powers of a head of a department as set...
  • California Labor Code Section 146
    In the conduct of hearings related to permanent variances, the board and its representatives are not bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence...
  • California Labor Code Section 147
    The board shall refer to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health for evaluation any proposed occupational safety or health standard or variance from adopted...
  • California Labor Code Section 147.1
    In connection with the development and promulgation of occupational health standards the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall perform all of the following functions:...
  • California Labor Code Section 147.2
    In accordance with Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 6350) of Part 1 of Division 5 of this code and Section 105175 of the Health and...
  • California Labor Code Section 148
    (a) There is in the Department of Industrial Relations the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board, consisting of three members appointed by the Governor, subject...
  • California Labor Code Section 148.1
    Each member of the appeals board shall serve for a term of four years and until his successor is appointed and qualifies. The terms of...
  • California Labor Code Section 148.2
    The appeals board may employ necessary assistants, officers, experts, hearing officers, and such other employees as it deems necessary. All such personnel of the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 148.4
    All decisions and orders of the appeals board shall be in writing.
  • California Labor Code Section 148.5
    A decision of the appeals board is final, except for any rehearing or judicial review as permitted by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 6600) of...
  • California Labor Code Section 148.6
    A decision of the appeals board is binding on the director and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health with respect to the parties involved...
  • California Labor Code Section 148.7
    The appeals board, acting as a whole, may adopt, amend, or repeal rules of practice and procedure pertaining to hearing appeals and other matters falling...
  • California Labor Code Section 148.8
    The appeals board and its duly authorized representatives in the performance of its duties shall have the powers of a head of a department as...
  • California Labor Code Section 148.9
    Decisions of the appeals board shall be made by a majority of the appeals board, except as otherwise expressly provided.
  • California Labor Code Section 149
    The chairman of the appeals board may authorize its executive officer to act as deputy appeals board member, and may delegate authority and duties to...
  • California Labor Code Section 149.5
    The appeals board may award reasonable costs, including attorney's fees, consultant's fees, and witness' fees, not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) in the aggregate,...
  • California Labor Code Section 150
    (a) The department shall collect, compile, and present facts and statistics relating to the condition of labor in the state, including information as to cost...
  • California Labor Code Section 151
    (a) The department shall conduct an annual survey of the ethnic derivation of the individuals who are parties to apprentice agreements described in Section 3077....
  • California Labor Code Section 152
    The Director of Industrial Relations and authorized employees of the department may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and production of books, papers,...
  • California Labor Code Section 153
    Except as provided in Section 151 no use shall be made in the statistical or other reports prepared pursuant to this chapter of the names...
  • California Labor Code Section 156
    An annual report containing statistics on California work injuries and occupational diseases and fatalities by industry classifications shall be completed and published by the department...
  • California Labor Code Section 175
    The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall be the lead agency in providing for public health and safety as well as worker health and...
  • California Labor Code Section 176
    (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act, Chapter 17.5 (commencing with Section 7290) of Division 7 of Title 1...
  • California Labor Code Section 200
    As used in this article: (a) "Wages" includes all amounts for labor performed by employees of every description, whether the amount is fixed or ascertained...
  • California Labor Code Section 200.5
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code or Section 340 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to collect a civil penalty, fee, or penalty fee...
  • California Labor Code Section 201
    (a) If an employer discharges an employee, the wages earned and unpaid at the time of discharge are due and payable immediately. An employer who...
  • California Labor Code Section 201.3
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) "Temporary services employer" means an employing unit that contracts with clients or customers to...
  • California Labor Code Section 201.5
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) "An employee engaged in the production or broadcasting of motion pictures" means an employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 201.7
    An employer who lays off an employee or a group of employees engaged in the business of oil drilling shall be deemed to have made...
  • California Labor Code Section 201.9
    Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 201, if employees are employed at a venue that hosts live theatrical or concert events and are enrolled in and...
  • California Labor Code Section 202
    (a) If an employee not having a written contract for a definite period quits his or her employment, his or her wages shall become due...
  • California Labor Code Section 203
    (a) If an employer willfully fails to pay, without abatement or reduction, in accordance with Sections 201, 201.3, 201.5, 202, and 205.5, any wages of...
  • California Labor Code Section 203.1
    If an employer pays an employee in the regular course of employment or in accordance with Section 201, 201.3, 201.5, 201.7, or 202 any wages...
  • California Labor Code Section 203.5
    (a) If a bonding company issuing a bond which secures the payment of wages for labor or the surety on a bond willfully fails to...
  • California Labor Code Section 204
    (a) All wages, other than those mentioned in Section 201, 201.3, 202, 204.1, or 204.2, earned by any person in any employment are due and...
  • California Labor Code Section 204a
    When workers are engaged in an employment that normally involves working for several employers in the same industry interchangeably, and the several employers, or some...
  • California Labor Code Section 204b
    Section 204 shall be inapplicable to employees paid on a weekly basis on a regular day designated by the employer in advance of the rendition...
  • California Labor Code Section 204c
    Section 204 shall be inapplicable to executive, administrative or professional employees who are not covered by any collective bargaining agreement, who are not subject to...
  • California Labor Code Section 204.1
    Commission wages paid to any person employed by an employer licensed as a vehicle dealer by the Department of Motor Vehicles are due and payable...
  • California Labor Code Section 204.2
    Salaries of executive, administrative, and professional employees of employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, as set forth pursuant to Section 13(a)(1) of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 204.3
    (a) An employee may receive, in lieu of overtime compensation, compensating time off at a rate of not less than one and one-half hours for...
  • California Labor Code Section 205
    In agricultural, viticultural, and horticultural pursuits, in stock or poultry raising, and in household domestic service, when the employees in such employments are boarded and...
  • California Labor Code Section 205.5
    All wages, other than those mentioned in Sections 201 and 202, earned by any agricultural employee, as defined in Section 1140.4, are due and payable...
  • California Labor Code Section 206
    (a) In case of a dispute over wages, the employer shall pay, without condition and within the time set by this article, all wages, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 206.5
    (a) An employer shall not require the execution of a release of a claim or right on account of wages due, or to become due,...
  • California Labor Code Section 207
    Every employer shall keep posted conspicuously at the place of work, if practicable, or otherwise where it can be seen as employees come or go...
  • California Labor Code Section 208
    Every employee who is discharged shall be paid at the place of discharge, and every employee who quits shall be paid at the office or...
  • California Labor Code Section 209
    In the event of any strike, the unpaid wages earned by striking employees shall become due and payable on the next regular pay day, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 210
    (a) In addition to, and entirely independent and apart from, any other penalty provided in this article, every person who fails to pay the wages...
  • California Labor Code Section 211
    When action to recover such penalties is brought, no court costs shall be payable by the state or the division. Any sheriff or marshal who...
  • California Labor Code Section 212
    (a) No person, or agent or officer thereof, shall issue in payment of wages due, or to become due, or as an advance on wages...
  • California Labor Code Section 213
    Nothing contained in Section 212 shall: (a) Prohibit an employer from guaranteeing the payment of bills incurred by an employee for the necessaries of life...
  • California Labor Code Section 214
    Prosecution under section 212 may be brought either at the place where the alleged illegal order, check, draft, note, memorandum or other acknowledgment of wage...
  • California Labor Code Section 215
    Any person, or the agent, manager, superintendent or officer thereof, who violates any provision of Section 201.3, 204, 204b, 205, 207, 208, 209, or 212...
  • California Labor Code Section 216
    In addition to any other penalty imposed by this article, any person, or an agent, manager, superintendent, or officer thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor,...
  • California Labor Code Section 217
    The Division of Labor Law Enforcement shall inquire diligently for any violations of this article, and, in cases which it deems proper, shall institute the...
  • California Labor Code Section 218
    Nothing in this article shall limit the authority of the district attorney of any county or prosecuting attorney of any city to prosecute actions, either...
  • California Labor Code Section 218.5
    In any action brought for the nonpayment of wages, fringe benefits, or health and welfare or pension fund contributions, the court shall award reasonable attorney's...
  • California Labor Code Section 218.6
    In any action brought for the nonpayment of wages, the court shall award interest on all due and unpaid wages at the rate of interest...
  • California Labor Code Section 219
    (a) Nothing in this article shall in any way limit or prohibit the payment of wages at more frequent intervals, or in greater amounts, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 220
    (a) Sections 201.3, 201.5, 201.7, 203.1, 203.5, 204, 204a, 204b, 204c, 204.1, 205, and 205.5 do not apply to the payment of wages of employees...
  • California Labor Code Section 220.2
    Contributions to vacation allowances, pension or retirement funds, sick leave, and health and welfare benefits on behalf of persons employed by any county, political subdivision,...
  • California Labor Code Section 221
    It shall be unlawful for any employer to collect or receive from an employee any part of wages theretofore paid by said employer to said
  • California Labor Code Section 222
    It shall be unlawful, in case of any wage agreement arrived at through collective bargaining, either wilfully or unlawfully or with intent to defraud an...
  • California Labor Code Section 222.5
    No person shall withhold or deduct from the compensation of any employee, or require any prospective employee or applicant for employment to pay, any fee...
  • California Labor Code Section 223
    Where any statute or contract requires an employer to maintain the designated wage scale, it shall be unlawful to secretly pay a lower wage while...
  • California Labor Code Section 224
    The provisions of Sections 221, 222 and 223 shall in no way make it unlawful for an employer to withhold or divert any portion of...
  • California Labor Code Section 225
    The violation of any provision of Sections 221, 222, 222.5, or 223 is a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 225.5
    In addition to, and entirely independent and apart from, any other penalty provided in this article, every person who unlawfully withholds wages due any employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 226
    (a) Every employer shall, semimonthly or at the time of each payment of wages, furnish each of his or her employees, either as a detachable...
  • California Labor Code Section 226.1
    The requirements of item (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 226, with respect to a temporary services employer, do not apply to a security services...
  • California Labor Code Section 226.3
    Any employer who violates subdivision (a) of Section 226 shall be subject to a civil penalty in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250)...
  • California Labor Code Section 226.4
    If, upon inspection or investigation, the Labor Commissioner determines that an employer is in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 226, the Labor Commissioner may...
  • California Labor Code Section 226.5
    (a) If a person desires to contest a citation or the proposed assessment of a civil penalty therefor, he or she shall within 15 business...
  • California Labor Code Section 226.6
    Any employer who knowingly and intentionally violates the provisions of Section 226, or any officer, agent, employee, fiduciary, or other person who has the control,...
  • California Labor Code Section 226.7
    (a) No employer shall require any employee to work during any meal or rest period mandated by an applicable order of the Industrial Welfare Commission....
  • California Labor Code Section 226.8
    (a) It is unlawful for any person or employer to engage in any of the following activities: (1) Willful misclassification of an individual as an...
  • California Labor Code Section 227
    Whenever an employer has agreed with any employee to make payments to a health or welfare fund, pension fund or vacation plan, or other similar...
  • California Labor Code Section 227.3
    Unless otherwise provided by a collective-bargaining agreement, whenever a contract of employment or employer policy provides for paid vacations, and an employee is terminated without...
  • California Labor Code Section 227.5
    Whenever an employer has agreed with any employee to make payments to a health or welfare fund, pension fund or vacation plan, or such other...
  • California Labor Code Section 228
    The payments under Section 227 of this code shall be deemed to include payments to apprenticeship funds. This amendment is hereby declared to be merely...
  • California Labor Code Section 229
    Actions to enforce the provisions of this article for the collection of due and unpaid wages claimed by an individual may be maintained without regard...
  • California Labor Code Section 230
    (a) An employer may not discharge or in any manner discriminate against an employee for taking time off to serve as required by law on...
  • California Labor Code Section 230.1
    (a) In addition to the requirements and prohibitions imposed on employees pursuant to Section 230, an employer with 25 or more employees may not discharge...
  • California Labor Code Section 230.2
    (a) As used in this section: (1) "Immediate family member" means spouse, child, stepchild, brother, stepbrother, sister, stepsister, mother, stepmother, father, or stepfather. (2) "Registered...
  • California Labor Code Section 230.3
    (a) No employer shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against an employee for taking time off to perform emergency duty as a volunteer firefighter,...
  • California Labor Code Section 230.4
    (a) An employee who is a volunteer firefighter, and works for an employer employing 50 or more employees, shall be permitted to take temporary leaves...
  • California Labor Code Section 230.7
    (a) No employer shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against an employee who is the parent or guardian of a pupil for taking time...
  • California Labor Code Section 230.8
    (a) (1) No employer who employs 25 or more employees working at the same location shall discharge or in any way discriminate against an employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 231
    Any employer who requires, as a condition of employment, that an employee have a driver's license shall pay the cost of any physical examination of...
  • California Labor Code Section 232
    No employer may do any of the following: (a) Require, as a condition of employment, that an employee refrain from disclosing the amount of his...
  • California Labor Code Section 232.5
    No employer may do any of the following: (a) Require, as a condition of employment, that an employee refrain from disclosing information about the employer's...
  • California Labor Code Section 233
    (a) Any employer who provides sick leave for employees shall permit an employee to use in any calendar year the employee's accrued and available sick...
  • California Labor Code Section 234
    An employer absence control policy that counts sick leave taken pursuant to Section 233 as an absence that may lead to or result in discipline,...
  • California Labor Code Section 240
    (a) If any employer has been convicted of a violation of any provision of this article, or if any judgment against an employer for nonpayment...
  • California Labor Code Section 243
    (a) If, within 10 years of either a conviction for a violation of this article or failing to satisfy a judgment for nonpayment of wages,...
  • California Labor Code Section 250
    As used in this article "seasonal labor" means all labor performed by any person hired in this State to perform services outside of this State...
  • California Labor Code Section 251
    This article shall not apply to wages earned by seamen or other persons, where payment is regulated by Federal statute.
  • California Labor Code Section 252
    Upon application of either the employer or the employee, the wages earned in seasonal labor shall be paid in the presence of the Labor Commissioner,...
  • California Labor Code Section 253
    The Labor Commissioner shall hear and decide all wage disputes arising in connection with seasonal labor and shall allow or reject any deductions made from...
  • California Labor Code Section 254
    After a final hearing by the Labor Commissioner, he shall file in the office of his division a copy of the findings of fact and...
  • California Labor Code Section 255
    The amount of the award of the Labor Commissioner shall, in the absence of fraud, be conclusively presumed to be the amount of the wages...
  • California Labor Code Section 256
    The Labor Commissioner shall impose a civil penalty in an amount not exceeding 30 days pay as waiting time under the terms of Section 203.
  • California Labor Code Section 257
    All provisions of Article 1 of this chapter, except sections 204, 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211 and 215 are applicable to this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 270
    No person, or agent or officer thereof, engaged in the business of extracting or of extracting and refining or reducing minerals other than petroleum, except...
  • California Labor Code Section 270.5
    (a) No person, agent or officer thereof, or logging contractor, or sawmill operations contractor, engaged in the business of logging or operating a sawmill for...
  • California Labor Code Section 270.6
    (a) No person, or agent or officer thereof, without a permanent and fixed place of business or residence in this state who uses or employs...
  • California Labor Code Section 271
    No person, or agent or officer thereof, engaged in the business of promoting a theatrical enterprise where living individuals are used or employed in the...
  • California Labor Code Section 272
    Every person, agent, or officer thereof engaged in the businesses specified in Section 270, 270.5, 270.6, or 271, shall keep conspicuously posted upon the premises...
  • California Labor Code Section 273
    (a) The following definitions apply for purposes of this section: (1) "All activities relating to an adverse license or registration action" includes, but is not...
  • California Labor Code Section 300
    (a) As used in this section, the phrase "assignment of wages" includes the sale or assignment of, or giving of an order for, wages or...
  • California Labor Code Section 350
    As used in this article, unless the context indicates otherwise: (a) "Employer" means every person engaged in any business or enterprise in this state that...
  • California Labor Code Section 351
    No employer or agent shall collect, take, or receive any gratuity or a part thereof that is paid, given to, or left for an employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 353
    Every employer shall keep accurate records of all gratuities received by him, whether received directly from the employee or indirectly by means of deductions from...
  • California Labor Code Section 354
    Any employer who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or...
  • California Labor Code Section 355
    The Department of Industrial Relations shall enforce the provisions of this article. All fines collected under this article shall be paid into the State treasury...
  • California Labor Code Section 356
    The Legislature expressly declares that the purpose of this article is to prevent fraud upon the public in connection with the practice of tipping and...
  • California Labor Code Section 400
    As used in this article, "applicant" means an applicant for employment.
  • California Labor Code Section 401
    If a bond or photograph of an employee or applicant is required by any employer, the cost thereof shall be paid by the employer.
  • California Labor Code Section 402
    No employer shall demand, exact, or accept any cash bond from any employee or applicant unless: (a) The employee or applicant is entrusted with property...
  • California Labor Code Section 403
    If cash is received as a bond it shall be deposited in a savings account in a bank authorized to do business in this State,...
  • California Labor Code Section 404
    Any money put up as a bond under Sections 401, 402 and 403: (a) Is not subject to enforcement of a money judgment except in...
  • California Labor Code Section 405
    Any property put up by any employee or applicant as a bond shall not be used for any purpose other than liquidating accounts between the...
  • California Labor Code Section 406
    Any property put up by an employee, or applicant as a part of the contract of employment, directly or indirectly, shall be deemed to be...
  • California Labor Code Section 407
    Investments and the sale of stock or an interest in a business in connection with the securing of a position are illegal as against the...
  • California Labor Code Section 408
    Any person or agent or officer thereof, who violates any provision of this article, except the provisions of Section 405, is guilty of a misdemeanor,...
  • California Labor Code Section 409
    All fines imposed and collected under this article shall be paid into the State treasury and credited to the general fund.
  • California Labor Code Section 410
    The Labor Commissioner shall enforce this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 430
    As used in this article "applicant" means an applicant for employment.
  • California Labor Code Section 432
    If an employee or applicant signs any instrument relating to the obtaining or holding of employment, he shall be given a copy of the instrument...
  • California Labor Code Section 432.2
    (a) No employer shall demand or require any applicant for employment or prospective employment or any employee to submit to or take a polygraph, lie...
  • California Labor Code Section 432.5
    No employer, or agent, manager, superintendent, or officer thereof, shall require any employee or applicant for employment to agree, in writing, to any term or...
  • California Labor Code Section 432.7
    (a) No employer, whether a public agency or private individual or corporation, shall ask an applicant for employment to disclose, through any written form or...
  • California Labor Code Section 432.8
    The limitations on employers and the penalties provided for in Section 432.7 shall apply to a conviction for violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of...
  • California Labor Code Section 433
    Any person violating this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 434
    The provisions of this article shall not apply to applications for employment filed with common carriers by railroad subject to the act of Congress known...
  • California Labor Code Section 435
    (a) No employer may cause an audio or video recording to be made of an employee in a restroom, locker room, or room designated by...
  • California Labor Code Section 450
    (a) No employer, or agent or officer thereof, or other person, may compel or coerce any employee, or applicant for employment, to patronize his or...
  • California Labor Code Section 451
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 452
    Nothing in this article shall prohibit an employer from prescribing the weight, color, quality, texture, style, form and make of uniforms required to be worn...
  • California Labor Code Section 500
    For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Workday" and "day" mean any consecutive 24-hour period commencing at the...
  • California Labor Code Section 510
    (a) Eight hours of labor constitutes a day's work. Any work in excess of eight hours in one workday and any work in excess of...
  • California Labor Code Section 511
    (a) Upon the proposal of an employer, the employees of an employer may adopt a regularly scheduled alternative workweek that authorizes work by the affected...
  • California Labor Code Section 512
    (a) An employer may not employ an employee for a work period of more than five hours per day without providing the employee with a...
  • California Labor Code Section 512.5
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, if the Industrial Welfare Commission adopts or amends an order that applies to an employee of a public...
  • California Labor Code Section 513
    If an employer approves a written request of an employee to make up work time that is or would be lost as a result of...
  • California Labor Code Section 514
    Sections 510 and 511 do not apply to an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement if the agreement expressly provides for the wages,...
  • California Labor Code Section 515
    (a) The Industrial Welfare Commission may establish exemptions from the requirement that an overtime rate of compensation be paid pursuant to Sections 510 and 511...
  • California Labor Code Section 515.5
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), an employee in the computer software field shall be exempt from the requirement that an overtime rate of...
  • California Labor Code Section 515.6
    (a) Section 510 shall not apply to any employee who is a licensed physician or surgeon, who is primarily engaged in duties that require licensure...
  • California Labor Code Section 515.8
    (a) Section 510 does not apply to an individual employed as a teacher at a private elementary or secondary academic institution in which pupils are...
  • California Labor Code Section 516
    Except as provided in Section 512, the Industrial Welfare Commission may adopt or amend working condition orders with respect to break periods, meal periods, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 517
    (a) The Industrial Welfare Commission shall, at a public hearing to be concluded by July 1, 2000, adopt wage, hours, and working conditions orders consistent...
  • California Labor Code Section 550
    As used in this chapter "day's rest" applies to all situations whether the employee is engaged by the day, week, month, or year, and whether...
  • California Labor Code Section 551
    Every person employed in any occupation of labor is entitled to one day's rest therefrom in seven.
  • California Labor Code Section 552
    No employer of labor shall cause his employees to work more than six days in seven.
  • California Labor Code Section 553
    Any person who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 554
    (a) Sections 551 and 552 shall not apply to any cases of emergency nor to work performed in the protection of life or property from...
  • California Labor Code Section 555
    Sections 550, 551, 552 and 554 of this chapter are applicable to cities which are cities and counties and to the officers and employees thereof.
  • California Labor Code Section 556
    Sections 551 and 552 shall not apply to any employer or employee when the total hours of employment do not exceed 30 hours in any...
  • California Labor Code Section 558
    (a) Any employer or other person acting on behalf of an employer who violates, or causes to be violated, a section of this chapter or...
  • California Labor Code Section 600
    As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates: (a) "Railroad" means any steam railroad, electric railroad, or railway, operated in whole or in...
  • California Labor Code Section 601
    No railroad corporation or any officer, agent or representative of such corporation shall require or knowingly permit any trainman to be on duty for a...
  • California Labor Code Section 602
    Whenever any trainman has been continuously on duty for 12 hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty...
  • California Labor Code Section 603
    No trainman who has been on duty 12 hours in the aggregate in any 24-hour period shall be required or permitted to continue or again...
  • California Labor Code Section 604
    No person who by the use of the telegraph or telephone, dispatches, reports, transmits, receives or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 605
    Any railroad corporation that violates any of the provisions of this chapter is liable to the state in a penalty of not less than five...
  • California Labor Code Section 606
    Any officer, agent or representative of any railroad corporation who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by...
  • California Labor Code Section 607
    This chapter shall not apply in any case of casualty, unavoidable accident, or act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a...
  • California Labor Code Section 750
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no employee may be employed for a period that exceeds eight hours within any 24-hour period and...
  • California Labor Code Section 750.5
    Notwithstanding Section 750, an employee may be employed for a period that exceeds eight hours within a 24-hour period, under the circumstances specified in subdivision...
  • California Labor Code Section 751
    In the case of an emergency where life or property is in imminent danger, the work shift may be extended during the continuance of the
  • California Labor Code Section 751.5
    Where emergency repairs to, or maintenance or replacement of, machinery or equipment are necessary for the continuous operation thereof, the hours that an employee may...
  • California Labor Code Section 751.8
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 750, the period of employment may exceed eight hours in any 24-hour period if the employee is paid at the overtime rate...
  • California Labor Code Section 752
    (a) Any affected employee, or his or her representative, may file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner concerning the conduct of an election pursuant to...
  • California Labor Code Section 752.5
    The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
  • California Labor Code Section 800
    Every person operating a sawmill, shakemill, shinglemill, logging camp, planing mill, veneer mill, plywood plant or any other type of plant or mill which processes...
  • California Labor Code Section 801
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not...
  • California Labor Code Section 850
    No person employed to sell at retail drugs and medicines or to compound physicians' prescriptions shall perform any work in any store, dispensary, pharmacy, laboratory,...
  • California Labor Code Section 851
    No person employing another person to sell at retail drugs and medicines or to compound physicians' prescriptions shall require or permit such employee to perform...
  • California Labor Code Section 851.5
    Except on Sundays and holidays, and except for a period of time for meals, not to exceed one hour in length, the hours of work...
  • California Labor Code Section 852
    The employer shall apportion the periods of rest to be taken by an employee so that the employee will have one complete day of rest...
  • California Labor Code Section 853
    Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than forty dollars ($40)...
  • California Labor Code Section 854
    The provisions of this chapter shall not apply in any case of emergency. The word "emergency" shall be construed as being accident, death, sickness or
  • California Labor Code Section 855
    The provisions of this chapter are enacted as a measure for the protection of the public health.
  • California Labor Code Section 856
    The Labor Commissioner shall enforce this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 920
    As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, "promise" includes promise, undertaking, contract, or agreement, whether written or oral, express or implied.
  • California Labor Code Section 921
    Every promise made after August 21, 1933, between any employee or prospective employee and his employer, prospective employer or any other person is contrary to...
  • California Labor Code Section 922
    Any person or agent or officer thereof who coerces or compels any person to enter into an agreement, written or verbal, not to join or...
  • California Labor Code Section 923
    In the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of this State is declared as follows: Negotiation of terms and conditions of labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 970
    No person, or agent or officer thereof, directly or indirectly, shall influence, persuade, or engage any person to change from one place to another in...
  • California Labor Code Section 971
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who violates Section 970 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than fifty...
  • California Labor Code Section 972
    In addition to such criminal penalty, any person, or agent or officer thereof who violates any provision of Section 970 is liable to the party...
  • California Labor Code Section 973
    If any person advertises for, or seeks employees by means of newspapers, posters, letters, or otherwise, or solicits or communicates by letter or otherwise with...
  • California Labor Code Section 974
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who violates Section 973 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 976
    No person shall publish or cause to be published any advertisement, solicitation or communication in any newspaper, poster or letter, offering employment as a salesman,...
  • California Labor Code Section 977
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who violates Section 976 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 980
    (a) As used in this chapter, "social media" means an electronic service or account, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1010
    As used in this chapter "label" includes label, imprint, trade-mark, tag, stamp, inscription, or other device.
  • California Labor Code Section 1011
    A person engaged in the production, manufacture, or sale of any article of merchandise in this state, shall not, by any label placed or impressed...
  • California Labor Code Section 1012
    Any person engaged in the production, manufacture, or sale of any article of merchandise in this state, or any person engaged in the performance of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1013
    As used in this chapter "forge" means forge, reproduce, copy, imitate, or counterfeit.
  • California Labor Code Section 1014
    Any trade union, labor association, or labor organization, organized and existing in this State, which has adopted and registered a label or trademark in accordance...
  • California Labor Code Section 1015
    Any person who, without having an unrevoked written authority from such trade union, labor association or labor organization, willfully forges or procures to be forged...
  • California Labor Code Section 1016
    Any person who willfully uses or displays the genuine label, trademark, insignia, seal, device, or form of advertisement of any association or labor union, in...
  • California Labor Code Section 1017
    Any person who wilfully uses the card of any labor union to obtain aid, assistance, or employment, unless entitled to use such card under the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1018
    Any person who willfully wears the button of any labor union of this state, unless entitled to wear the button under the rules of such...
  • California Labor Code Section 1020
    It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to establish a citation system for the imposition of prompt and effective civil sanctions...
  • California Labor Code Section 1021
    Any person who does not hold a valid state contractor's license issued pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1021.5
    Any person who holds a valid state contractor's license issued pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 of the Business and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1022
    If upon inspection or investigation the Labor Commissioner determines that any person is employing workers in violation of Section 1021 or 1021.5, he or she...
  • California Labor Code Section 1023
    (a) If a person desires to contest a citation or the proposed assessment of a civil penalty therefor, he or she shall within 15 business...
  • California Labor Code Section 1024
    All civil penalties collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Industrial Relations Construction Industry Enforcement Fund, which is hereby created. All moneys...
  • California Labor Code Section 1024.5
    (a) An employer or prospective employer shall not use a consumer credit report for employment purposes unless the position of the person for whom the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1025
    Every private employer regularly employing 25 or more employees shall reasonably accommodate any employee who wishes to voluntarily enter and participate in an alcohol or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1026
    The employer shall make reasonable efforts to safeguard the privacy of the employee as to the fact that he or she has enrolled in an...
  • California Labor Code Section 1027
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an employer to provide time off with pay, except that an employee may use sick leave...
  • California Labor Code Section 1028
    An employee may file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner if he or she believes that he or she has been denied reasonable accommodation as...
  • California Labor Code Section 1030
    Every employer, including the state and any political subdivision, shall provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast...
  • California Labor Code Section 1031
    The employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room or other location, other than a toilet stall, in...
  • California Labor Code Section 1032
    An employer is not required to provide break time under this chapter if to do so would seriously disrupt the operations of the employer.
  • California Labor Code Section 1033
    (a) An employer who violates any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1040
    This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Employee Literacy Education Assistance Act.
  • California Labor Code Section 1041
    (a) Every private employer regularly employing 25 or more employees shall reasonably accommodate and assist any employee who reveals a problem of illiteracy and requests...
  • California Labor Code Section 1042
    The employer shall make reasonable efforts to safeguard the privacy of the employee as to the fact that he or she has a problem with
  • California Labor Code Section 1043
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an employer to provide time off with pay for an employee to enroll and participate in...
  • California Labor Code Section 1044
    An employee who reveals a problem of illiteracy and who satisfactorily performs his or her work shall not be subject to termination of employment because...
  • California Labor Code Section 1050
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who, after having discharged an employee from the service of such person or after an employee has voluntarily...
  • California Labor Code Section 1051
    Except as provided in Section 1057, any person or agent or officer thereof, who requires, as a condition precedent to securing or retaining employment, that...
  • California Labor Code Section 1052
    Any person who knowingly causes, suffers, or permits an agent, superintendent, manager, or employee in his employ to commit a violation of sections 1050 and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1053
    Nothing in this chapter shall prevent an employer or an agent, employee, superintendent or manager thereof from furnishing, upon special request therefor, a truthful statement...
  • California Labor Code Section 1054
    In addition to and apart from the criminal penalty provided any person or agent or officer thereof, who violates any provision of sections 1050 to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1055
    Every public utility corporation shall, upon request by any employee leaving its service, give to such employee a letter stating the period of service and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1056
    Every public utility corporation violating Section 1055 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more...
  • California Labor Code Section 1057
    Section 1051 shall not apply to any employee of a diversified or nondiversified management company, as defined in Section 80a-5 of Title 15 of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1060
    The following definitions shall apply throughout this chapter: (a) "Awarding authority" means any person that awards or otherwise enters into contracts for janitorial or building...
  • California Labor Code Section 1061
    (a) (1) If an awarding authority notifies a contractor that the service contract between the awarding authority and the contractor has been terminated or will...
  • California Labor Code Section 1062
    (a) An employee, who was not offered employment or who has been discharged in violation of this chapter by a successor contractor or successor subcontractor,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1063
    (a) This chapter only applies to contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2002. (b) Except for the obligations specified in subdivisions (a) and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1064
    Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a local government agency from enacting ordinances relating to displaced janitors that impose greater standards than, or establish additional...
  • California Labor Code Section 1065
    If any provision or provisions of this chapter or any application thereof is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect any other provisions or applications...
  • California Labor Code Section 1070
    The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) That when public transit agencies award contracts to operate bus and rail services to a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1071
    The following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (a) "Awarding authority" means any local government agency, including any city, county, special district, transit district, joint powers...
  • California Labor Code Section 1072
    (a) A bidder shall declare as part of the bid for a service contract whether or not he or she will retain the employees of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1073
    (a) An employee who was not offered employment or who has been discharged in violation of this chapter, or his or her agent, may bring...
  • California Labor Code Section 1074
    (a) Upon its own motion or upon the request of any member of the public, an awarding authority may terminate any service contract made pursuant...
  • California Labor Code Section 1101
    No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy: (a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or from...
  • California Labor Code Section 1102
    No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by means of threat of discharge or loss of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1102.5
    (a) An employer may not make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy preventing an employee from disclosing information to a government or law...
  • California Labor Code Section 1102.6
    In a civil action or administrative proceeding brought pursuant to Section 1102.5, once it has been demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that an...
  • California Labor Code Section 1102.7
    (a) The office of the Attorney General shall maintain a whistleblower hotline to receive calls from persons who have information regarding possible violations of state...
  • California Labor Code Section 1102.8
    (a) An employer shall prominently display in lettering larger than size 14 point type a list of employees' rights and responsibilities under the whistleblower laws,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1103
    Any employer who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable, in the case of an individual, by imprisonment in the county jail not...
  • California Labor Code Section 1104
    In all prosecutions under this chapter, the employer is responsible for the acts of his managers, officers, agents, and employees.
  • California Labor Code Section 1105
    Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the injured employee from recovering damages from his employer for injury suffered through a violation of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 1106
    For purposes of Sections 1102.5, 1102.6, 1102.7, 1102.8, 1104, and 1105, "employee" includes, but is not limited to, any individual employed by the state or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1110
    No agreement, combination, or contract, by or between two or more persons to do or procure to be done, or not to do or procure...
  • California Labor Code Section 1115
    A jurisdictional strike as herein defined is hereby declared to be against the public policy of the State of California and is hereby declared to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1116
    Any person injured or threatened with injury by violation of any of the provisions hereof shall be entitled to injunctive relief therefrom in a proper...
  • California Labor Code Section 1117
    As used herein, "labor organization" means any organization or any agency or employee representation committee or any local unit thereof in which employees participate, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1118
    As used in this chapter, "jurisdictional strike" means a concerted refusal to perform work for an employer or any other concerted interference with an employer's...
  • California Labor Code Section 1119
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with collective bargaining subject to the prohibitions herein set forth, nor to prohibit any individual voluntarily...
  • California Labor Code Section 1120
    If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
  • California Labor Code Section 1122
    Any person who organizes an employee group which is financed in whole or in part, interfered with or dominated or controlled by the employer or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1126
    Any collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization shall be enforceable at law or in equity, and a breach of such collective...
  • California Labor Code Section 1127
    (a) Where a collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization contains a successor clause, such clause shall be binding upon and enforceable...
  • California Labor Code Section 1128
    (a) Where a party to a collective bargaining agreement prevails in a court action to compel arbitration of disputes concerning the collective bargaining agreement, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1130
    The Legislature hereby makes the following findings and declarations: Relations between organized labor and management in this state have for many years been marked by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1132
    Unless provided otherwise, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 1132.2
    "Employer" means a person, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other entity, which employs any person or persons to perform services for a wage or salary,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1132.4
    "Employee" means any person who performs services for wages or salary under a contract of employment, express or implied, for an employer.
  • California Labor Code Section 1132.6
    "Strike" means any concerted act of more than 50 percent of the bargaining unit employees in a lawful refusal of such employees under applicable state...
  • California Labor Code Section 1132.8
    "Lockout" means any refusal by an employer to permit any group of five or more employees to work as a result of a dispute with...
  • California Labor Code Section 1133
    "Professional strikebreaker" means any person other than supervisorial personnel who have been in the employ of the employer before the commencement of the strike or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1134
    It shall be unlawful for any employer willingly and knowingly to utilize any professional strikebreaker to replace an employee or employees involved in a strike...
  • California Labor Code Section 1134.2
    It shall be unlawful for any professional strikebreaker willingly and knowingly to offer himself for employment or to replace an employee or employees involved in...
  • California Labor Code Section 1136
    Any person, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity, or officer or agent thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 1136.2
    If any part of the provisions of this chapter, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstance is held invalid in the final judgment...
  • California Labor Code Section 1138
    No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization, participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible...
  • California Labor Code Section 1138.1
    (a) No court of this state shall have authority to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1138.2
    No restraining order or injunctive relief shall be granted to any complainant involved in the labor dispute in question who has failed to comply with...
  • California Labor Code Section 1138.3
    No restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction shall be granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except on the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1138.4
    The term "labor dispute" as used in this chapter has the same meaning as set forth in clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of paragraph (4)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1138.5
    Sections 1138.1, 1138.2, and 1138.3 shall not apply to any peace officer as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1140
    This part shall be known and may be referred to as the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975.
  • California Labor Code Section 1140.2
    It is hereby stated to be the policy of the State of California to encourage and protect the right of agricultural employees to full freedom...
  • California Labor Code Section 1140.4
    As used in this part: (a) The term "agriculture" includes farming in all its branches, and, among other things, includes the cultivation and tillage of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1141
    (a) There is hereby created in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, which shall consist of five members. (b) The...
  • California Labor Code Section 1142
    (a) The principal office of the board shall be in Sacramento, but it may meet and exercise any or all of its power at any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1142.5
    (a) The board shall maintain, at its principal office, a telephone line 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the purpose of providing...
  • California Labor Code Section 1143
    The board shall, at the close of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to the Legislature and to the Governor stating in detail...
  • California Labor Code Section 1144
    The board may from time to time make, amend, and rescind, in the manner prescribed in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1...
  • California Labor Code Section 1144.5
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1145
    The board may appoint an executive secretary and such attorneys, hearing officers, administrative law officers, and other employees as it may from time to time...
  • California Labor Code Section 1146
    The board is authorized to delegate to any group of three or more board members any or all the powers which it may itself exercise....
  • California Labor Code Section 1147
    Each member of the board shall receive the salary provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1148
    The board shall follow applicable precedents of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
  • California Labor Code Section 1149
    There shall be a general counsel of the board who shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by a majority of the Senate,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1150
    Each member of the board and the general counsel of the board shall be eligible for reappointment, and shall not engage in any other business,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1151
    For the purpose of all hearings and investigations, which, in the opinion of the board, are necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers...
  • California Labor Code Section 1151.2
    (a) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or from producing books, records, correspondence, documents, or other evidence in obedience to the subpoena...
  • California Labor Code Section 1151.3
    Any party shall have the right to appear at any hearing in person, by counsel, or by other representative.
  • California Labor Code Section 1151.4
    (a) Complaints, orders, and other process and papers of the board, its members, agents, or agency, may be served either personally or by registered mail...
  • California Labor Code Section 1151.5
    The several departments and agencies of the state upon request by the board, shall furnish the board all records, papers, and information in their possession,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1151.6
    Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the board or any of its agents or agencies in the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1152
    Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1153
    It shall be an unfair labor practice for an agricultural employer to do any of the following: (a) To interfere with, restrain, or coerce agricultural...
  • California Labor Code Section 1154
    It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents to do any of the following: (a) To restrain or coerce:...
  • California Labor Code Section 1154.5
    It shall be an unfair labor practice for any labor organization which represents the employees of the employer and such employer to enter into any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1154.6
    It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer or labor organization, or their agents, willfully to arrange for persons to become employees for...
  • California Labor Code Section 1155
    The expressing of any views, arguments, or opinions, or the dissemination thereof, whether in written, printed, graphic, or visual form, shall not constitute evidence of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1155.2
    (a) For purposes of this part, to bargain collectively in good faith is the performance of the mutual obligation of the agricultural employer and the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1155.3
    (a) Where there is in effect a collective-bargaining contract covering agricultural employees, the duty to bargain collectively shall also mean that no party to such...
  • California Labor Code Section 1155.4
    It shall be unlawful for any agricultural employer or association of agricultural employers, or any person who acts as a labor relations expert, adviser, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1155.5
    It shall be unlawful for any person to request, demand, receive, or accept, or agree to receive or accept, any payment, loan, or delivery of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1155.6
    Nothing in Section 1155.4 or 1155.5 shall apply to any matter set forth in subsection (c) of Section 186 of Title 29 of the United...
  • California Labor Code Section 1155.7
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to apply or be applicable to any labor organization in its representation of workers who are not agricultural...
  • California Labor Code Section 1156
    Representatives designated or selected by a secret ballot for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the agricultural employees in the bargaining unit...
  • California Labor Code Section 1156.2
    The bargaining unit shall be all the agricultural employees of an employer. If the agricultural employees of the employer are employed in two or more...
  • California Labor Code Section 1156.3
    (a) A petition that is either signed by, or accompanied by authorization cards signed by, a majority of the currently employed employees in the bargaining...
  • California Labor Code Section 1156.4
    Recognizing that agriculture is a seasonal occupation for a majority of agricultural employees, and wishing to provide the fullest scope for employees' enjoyment of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1156.5
    The board shall not direct an election in any bargaining unit where a valid election has been held in the immediately preceding 12-month period.
  • California Labor Code Section 1156.6
    The board shall not direct an election in any bargaining unit which is represented by a labor organization that has been certified within the immediately...
  • California Labor Code Section 1156.7
    (a) No collective-bargaining agreement executed prior to the effective date of this chapter shall bar a petition for an election. (b) A collective-bargaining agreement executed...
  • California Labor Code Section 1157
    All agricultural employees of the employer whose names appear on the payroll applicable to the payroll period immediately preceding the filing of the petition of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1157.2
    In any election where none of the choices on the ballot receives a majority, a runoff shall be conducted, the ballot providing for a selection...
  • California Labor Code Section 1157.3
    Employers shall maintain accurate and current payroll lists containing the names and addresses of all their employees, and shall make such lists available to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1158
    Whenever an order of the board made pursuant to Section 1160.3 is based in whole or in part upon the facts certified following an investigation...
  • California Labor Code Section 1159
    In order to assure the full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of the employees own choosing, only labor organizations certified pursuant to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160
    The board is empowered, as provided in this chapter, to prevent any person from engaging in any unfair labor practice, as set forth in Chapter...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.2
    Whenever it is charged that any person has engaged in or is engaging in any such unfair labor practice, the board, or any agent or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.3
    The testimony taken by such member, agent, or agency, or the board in such hearing shall be reduced to writing and filed with the board....
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.4
    (a) The board may, upon finding reasonable cause to believe that any person has engaged in or is engaging in an unfair labor practice, petition...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.5
    Whenever it is charged that any person has engaged in an unfair labor practice within the meaning of paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.6
    Whenever it is charged that any person has engaged in an unfair labor practice within the meaning of paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.7
    Whenever it is charged that any person has engaged in an unfair labor practice within the meaning of subdivision (c) of Section 1153 or subdivision...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.8
    Any person aggrieved by the final order of the board granting or denying in whole or in part the relief sought may obtain a review...
  • California Labor Code Section 1160.9
    The procedures set forth in this chapter shall be the exclusive method of redressing unfair labor practices.
  • California Labor Code Section 1161
    (a) The Agricultural Employee Relief Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury and is continuously appropriated to the Agricultural Labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164
    (a) An agricultural employer or a labor organization certified as the exclusive bargaining agent of a bargaining unit of agricultural employees may file with the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164.3
    (a) Either party, within seven days of the filing of the report by the mediator, may petition the board for review of the report. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164.5
    (a) Within 30 days after the order of the board takes effect, a party may petition for a writ of review in the court of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164.7
    (a) The board and each party to the action or proceeding before the mediator may appear in the review proceeding. Upon the hearing, the court...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164.9
    No court of this state, except the court of appeal or the Supreme Court, to the extent specified in this article, shall have jurisdiction to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164.11
    A demand made pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1164 may be made only in cases which meet all of the following...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164.12
    To ensure an orderly implementation of the mediation process ordered by this chapter, a party may not file a total of more than 75 declarations...
  • California Labor Code Section 1164.13
    The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
  • California Labor Code Section 1165
    (a) Suits for violation of contracts between an agricultural employer and an agricultural labor organization representing agricultural employees, as defined in this part, or between...
  • California Labor Code Section 1165.2
    For the purpose of this part, the superior court shall have jurisdiction over a labor organization in this state if such organization maintains its principal...
  • California Labor Code Section 1165.3
    The service of summons, subpoena, or other legal process of any superior court upon an officer or agent of a labor organization, in his capacity...
  • California Labor Code Section 1165.4
    For the purpose of this part, in determining whether any person is acting as an agent of another person so as to make such other...
  • California Labor Code Section 1166
    Nothing in this part, except as specifically provided for herein, shall be construed so as either to interfere with or impede or diminish in any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1166.2
    Nothing in this part shall prohibit any individual employed as a supervisor from becoming or remaining a member of a labor organization, but no employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 1166.3
    (a) If any provision of this part, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1171
    The provisions of this chapter shall apply to and include men, women and minors employed in any occupation, trade, or industry, whether compensation is measured...
  • California Labor Code Section 1171.5
    The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) All protections, rights, and remedies available under state law, except any reinstatement remedy prohibited by federal law,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1173
    It is the continuing duty of the Industrial Welfare Commission, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the commission, to ascertain the wages paid to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1174
    Every person employing labor in this state shall: (a) Furnish to the commission, at its request, reports or information that the commission requires to carry...
  • California Labor Code Section 1174.5
    Any person employing labor who willfully fails to maintain the records required by subdivision (c) of Section 1174 or accurate and complete records required by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1175
    Any person, or officer or agent thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (a) Neglects or refuses to furnish the information requested under the provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 1176
    The commission or any members thereof may subpena witnesses and administer oaths. All witnesses subpenaed by the commission shall be paid the fees and mileage...
  • California Labor Code Section 1176.1
    Any interested party may petition the commission requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. The petition shall state clearly and concisely all of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1176.3
    (a) Within 120 days of the receipt of a petition requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation, the commission shall notify the petitioner...
  • California Labor Code Section 1177
    (a) The commission may make and enforce rules of practice and procedure and shall not be bound by the rules of evidence. Each order of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1178
    If after investigation the commission finds that in any occupation, trade, or industry, the wages paid to employees may be inadequate to supply the cost...
  • California Labor Code Section 1178.5
    (a) If the commission finds that wages paid to employees may be inadequate to supply the cost of proper living, it shall select one wage...
  • California Labor Code Section 1179
    The members of the wage board shall be allowed fifty dollars ($50) per diem and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in such conferences. The commission...
  • California Labor Code Section 1180
    The proceedings and deliberations of the wage board shall be made a matter of record for the use of the commission, and shall be admissible...
  • California Labor Code Section 1181
    Upon the fixing of the time and place for the holding of a hearing for the purpose of considering and acting upon the proposed regulations...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182
    (a) After receipt of the wage board report and the public hearings on the proposed regulations, the commission may, upon its own motion, amend or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.1
    Any action taken by the commission pursuant to Sections 517 and 1182 shall be published in at least one newspaper in each of the Cities...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.4
    (a) No student employee, camp counselor, or program counselor of an organized camp shall be subject to a minimum wage or maximum hour order of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.5
    (a) The Legislature finds that the time permitted the Industrial Welfare Commission to consider daily overtime compensation petitions that are to be given priority attention...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.6
    (a) No employer who continuously operates a manufacturing facility 24 hours a day for seven days a week, and who has had in operation an...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.7
    (a) The Legislature finds that the time permitted the Industrial Welfare Commission to consider petitions, including, but not limited to, daily overtime compensation petitions that...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.8
    No employer shall be in violation of any provision of any applicable order of the Industrial Welfare Commission relating to credit or charges for lodging...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.11
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, on and after March 1, 1997, the minimum wage for all industries shall not be less than five...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.12
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, on and after January 1, 2007, the minimum wage for all industries shall be not less than seven...
  • California Labor Code Section 1182.13
    (a) The Department of Industrial Relations shall adjust upwards the permissible meals and lodging credits by the same percentage as the increase in the minimum...
  • California Labor Code Section 1183
    (a) So far as practicable, the commission, by mail, shall send a copy of the order authorized by Section 1182 to each employer in the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1184
    Any action taken by the commission pursuant to Section 1182 shall be effective on the first day of the succeeding January or July and not...
  • California Labor Code Section 1185
    The orders of the commission fixing minimum wages, maximum hours, and standard conditions of labor for all employees, when promulgated in accordance with the provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 1186
    A person employed in the practice of pharmacy is not exempt from coverage under any provision of the orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission unless...
  • California Labor Code Section 1186.5
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, pharmacists engaged in the practice of pharmacy who are employed in the mercantile industry, as defined by Wage Order...
  • California Labor Code Section 1187
    The findings of fact made by the commission are, in the absence of fraud, conclusive.
  • California Labor Code Section 1188
    Any person aggrieved directly or indirectly by any final rule or regulation of the commission made under this chapter may apply to the commission for...
  • California Labor Code Section 1190
    Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a review or other action permitted by the Constitution and laws of this State by a court of competent...
  • California Labor Code Section 1191
    For any occupation in which a minimum wage has been established, the commission may issue to an employee who is mentally or physically handicapped, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1191.5
    Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1191, the commission may issue a special license to a nonprofit organization such as a sheltered workshop or rehabilitation facility...
  • California Labor Code Section 1192
    For any occupation in which a minimum wage has been established, the commission may issue to an apprentice or learner a special license authorizing the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1193
    The commission may fix the maximum number of employees to be employed under the licenses provided for in Sections 1191 and 1192 in any occupation,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1193.5
    The provisions of this chapter shall be administered and enforced by the division. Any authorized representative of the division shall have authority to: (a) Investigate...
  • California Labor Code Section 1193.6
    (a) The department or division may, with or without the consent of the employee or employees affected, commence and prosecute a civil action to recover...
  • California Labor Code Section 1194
    (a) Notwithstanding any agreement to work for a lesser wage, any employee receiving less than the legal minimum wage or the legal overtime compensation applicable...
  • California Labor Code Section 1194.2
    (a) In any action under Section 98, 1193.6, or 1194 to recover wages because of the payment of a wage less than the minimum wage...
  • California Labor Code Section 1194.3
    An employee may recover attorney's fees and costs incurred to enforce a court judgment for unpaid wages due pursuant to this code.
  • California Labor Code Section 1194.5
    In any case in which a person employing an employee has willfully violated any of the laws, regulations, or orders governing the wages, hours of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1195
    Any person may register with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement a complaint that the wage paid to an employee for whom a minimum wage...
  • California Labor Code Section 1195.5
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall determine, upon request, whether the wages of employees, which exceed the minimum wages fixed by the commission, have...
  • California Labor Code Section 1197
    The minimum wage for employees fixed by the commission is the minimum wage to be paid to employees, and the payment of a less wage...
  • California Labor Code Section 1197.1
    (a) Any employer or other person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person, who pays or causes to be...
  • California Labor Code Section 1197.2
    (a) In addition to any other penalty imposed by law, an employer who willfully fails to pay and has the ability to pay a final...
  • California Labor Code Section 1197.5
    (a) No employer shall pay any individual in the employer's employ at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex...
  • California Labor Code Section 1198
    The maximum hours of work and the standard conditions of labor fixed by the commission shall be the maximum hours of work and the standard...
  • California Labor Code Section 1198.3
    (a) The Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may, when in his or her judgment hardship will result, exempt any employer or employees...
  • California Labor Code Section 1198.4
    Upon request, the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall make available to the public any enforcement policy statements or interpretations of orders...
  • California Labor Code Section 1198.5
    (a) Every current and former employee, or his or her representative, has the right to inspect and receive a copy of the personnel records that...
  • California Labor Code Section 1199
    Every employer or other person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is...
  • California Labor Code Section 1199.5
    Every employer or other person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is...
  • California Labor Code Section 1200
    In every prosecution for violation of any provision of this chapter, the minimum wage, the maximum hours of work, and the standard conditions of labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 1201
    The commission shall not act as a board of arbitration during a strike or lockout.
  • California Labor Code Section 1202
    Upon the request of the commission, the department shall cause such statistics and other data and information to be gathered, and investigations made, as the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1203
    The commission may publish and distribute from time to time reports and bulletins covering its operations and proceedings under this chapter and such other matters...
  • California Labor Code Section 1204
    No order made by the commission under the provisions of Sections 1182 or 1184 of this chapter shall be effective unless and until compliance is...
  • California Labor Code Section 1205
    (a) As used in this section: (1) "Local jurisdiction" means any city, county, district, or agency, or any subdivision or combination thereof. (2) "State agency"...
  • California Labor Code Section 1206
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this code establishes minimum penalties for failure to comply with wage-related statutes and regulations.
  • California Labor Code Section 1285
    It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting Sections 1286 to 1289, inclusive, to establish a citation system for the imposition of prompt and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1286
    As used in this article: (a) "Director" means the Director of Industrial Relations or his or her designee. (b) "Department" means the Department of Industrial...
  • California Labor Code Section 1287
    If upon inspection or investigation the director determines that a person is in violation of any statutory provision or rule or regulation relating to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1288
    Citations issued pursuant to this article shall be classified according to the nature of the violation, and shall indicate the classification on the face thereof,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1289
    (a) If a person desires to contest a citation or the proposed assessment of a civil penalty therefor, he or she shall within 15 business...
  • California Labor Code Section 1290
    No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in or in connection with any manufacturing establishment or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1291
    Work is done for a manufacturing establishment within the meaning of this article whenever it is done at any place upon the work of a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1292
    No minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity in: (a) Adjusting any belt to any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1293
    No minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, or permitted, to work in any capacity in operating or assisting in operating any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1293.1
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 1394, no minor under the age of 12 years may be employed or permitted to work,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1294
    No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity: (a) Upon any railroad, whether steam, electric,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1294.1
    (a) No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted to work in either of the following: (1) Any occupation declared...
  • California Labor Code Section 1294.3
    Minors 14 and 15 years of age may be employed in occupations not otherwise prohibited by this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following:...
  • California Labor Code Section 1294.4
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a minor engaged in the delivery of newspapers to consumers from making deliveries by foot, bicycle,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1294.5
    (a) Minors 16 and 17 years of age may work in gas service stations in the following activities: (1) Dispensing gas or oil. (2) Courtesy...
  • California Labor Code Section 1295
    (a) Sections 1292, 1293, 1294, and 1294.5 shall not apply to any of the following: (1) Courses of training in vocational or manual training schools...
  • California Labor Code Section 1295.5
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 1391 of this code or Section 49116 of the Education Code, minors 14 years of age and older may be employed during...
  • California Labor Code Section 1296
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may, after a hearing, determine whether any particular trade, process of manufacture, or occupation, in which the employment of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1297
    No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted to work as a messenger for any telegraph, telephone, or messenger company,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1298
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 1308.1, no minor under 12 years of age shall be employed or permitted to work at any time in or in connection...
  • California Labor Code Section 1299
    Every person, or agent or officer thereof, employing minors, either directly or indirectly through third persons, shall keep on file all permits and certificates, either...
  • California Labor Code Section 1300
    All certificates and permits to work or to employ shall be subject to cancellation at any time by the Labor Commissioner or by the issuing...
  • California Labor Code Section 1301
    (a) The provisions of this article concerning the employment of minors, and the civil penalties for violations of those provisions, shall be fully applicable to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1302
    The attendance supervisor, who is a full-time attendance supervisor performing no other duties, of any county, city and county, or school district in which any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1303
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof, employing either directly or indirectly through third persons, or any parent or guardian of a minor affected by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1304
    Failure to produce any permit or certificate either to work or to employ is prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any minor whose...
  • California Labor Code Section 1305
    (a) All fines and penalties collected under this article, other than as the result of a judicial proceeding to enforce collection, shall be paid to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1307
    All minors coming within the provisions of Division 9 (commencing with Section 10501) of the Education Code shall be placed or delivered into the custody...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308
    (a) Any person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and not more...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.1
    (a) No minor under the age of 6 years shall be permitted to engage in the door-to-door sales or street sales of candy, cookies, flowers,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.2
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), any person 18 years of age or older who transports, or provides direction or supervision during transportation of,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.3
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (g), any individual, association, corporation, or other entity that employs or uses, either directly or indirectly through third persons,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.4
    The Labor Commissioner may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any registration under Section 1308.2 or 1308.3 when any of the following have occurred: (a)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.5
    (a) This section, with the exception of paragraph (4) of this subdivision, shall apply to all minors under the age of 16 years. The written...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.6
    No consent shall be given at any time unless the officer giving it is satisfied that all of the following conditions are met: (a) The...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.7
    (a) No minor shall be employed in the entertainment industry more than eight hours in one day of 24 hours, or more than 48 hours...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.8
    (a) No infant under the age of one month may be employed on any motion picture set or location unless a licensed physician and surgeon...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.9
    (a) If the Labor Commissioner provides written consent pursuant to Section 1308.5 for the employment of a minor under a contract described in Section 6750...
  • California Labor Code Section 1308.10
    (a) Prior to the employment of a minor under the age of 16 years in any of the circumstances listed in subdivision (a) of Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 1309
    Every person who takes, receives, hires, employs, uses, exhibits, or has in custody, for any of the purposes mentioned in Section 1308, any minor under...
  • California Labor Code Section 1309.5
    (a) Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor under 18 years of age, or who, while in possession of these facts...
  • California Labor Code Section 1309.6
    (a) Any person who violates any provision of Section 1309.5 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars...
  • California Labor Code Section 1310
    Nothing in this article or Article 2 (commencing with Section 1390) of Chapter 3 shall prohibit or prevent: (a) The appearance of any minor in...
  • California Labor Code Section 1311
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall enforce this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 1312
    Nothing in this article shall limit the authority of the Attorney General or the district attorney of any county, either upon their own complaint or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1390
    As used in this article, unless the context otherwise indicates: (a) "Horticultural" includes the curing and drying but not the canning of all varieties of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1391
    (a) Except as provided in Sections 1297, 1298, and 1308.7: (1) No employer shall employ a minor 15 years of age or younger for more...
  • California Labor Code Section 1391.1
    Minors 16 years of age or older and under the age of 18 years enrolled in work experience or cooperative vocational education programs approved by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1391.2
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1391 and 1391.1, any minor under 18 years of age who has been graduated from a high school maintaining a four-year course...
  • California Labor Code Section 1392
    Every person who has a minor under his or her control, as a ward or an apprentice, and who, except in household occupations, requires the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1393
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 49110) of Chapter 7 of Part 27 of Division 4 of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1393.5
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 2 (commencing with Section 49110) of Chapter 7 of Part 27 of Division 4 of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1394
    Nothing in this article or Article 2 (commencing with Section 1285) of Chapter 2 shall prohibit or prevent either of the following: (a) The employment...
  • California Labor Code Section 1398
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall enforce the provisions of this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 1399
    Nothing in this article shall limit the authority of the Attorney General or the district attorney of any county, either upon their own complaint or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1400
    The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms used in this chapter: (a) "Covered establishment" means any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1401
    (a) An employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or termination at a covered establishment unless, 60 days before the order takes effect, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1402
    (a) An employer who fails to give notice as required by paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1401 before ordering a mass layoff, relocation,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1402.5
    (a) An employer is not required to comply with the notice requirement contained in subdivision (a) of Section 1401 if the department determines that all...
  • California Labor Code Section 1403
    An employer who fails to give notice as required by paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 1401 is subject to a civil penalty of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1404
    A person, including a local government or an employee representative, seeking to establish liability against an employer may bring a civil action on behalf of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1405
    If the court determines that an employer conducted a reasonable investigation in good faith, and had reasonable grounds to believe that its conduct was not...
  • California Labor Code Section 1406
    In any investigation or proceeding under this chapter, the Labor Commissioner has, in addition to all other powers granted by law, the authority to examine...
  • California Labor Code Section 1407
    (a) Payments to a person under subdivision (a) of Section 1402 by an employer who has failed to provide the advance notice of facility closure...
  • California Labor Code Section 1408
    The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
  • California Labor Code Section 1500
    This part shall be known and may be cited as the Civil Air Patrol Employment Protection Act.
  • California Labor Code Section 1501
    In this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Civil Air Patrol leave" means leave requested by an employee who is a volunteer...
  • California Labor Code Section 1502
    An employer shall not discriminate against or discharge from employment a member of the Civil Air Patrol because of such membership and shall not hinder...
  • California Labor Code Section 1503
    (a) (1) An employer shall provide not less than 10 days per calendar year of unpaid Civil Air Patrol leave to an employee responding to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1504
    (a) An employer shall, upon expiration of a leave authorized by this part, restore an employee to the position held by him or her when...
  • California Labor Code Section 1505
    (a) Taking Civil Air Patrol leave under this part shall not result in the loss of an employee benefit accrued before the date on which...
  • California Labor Code Section 1506
    (a) An employer shall not interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise or the attempt to exercise a right established by this part. (b) An...
  • California Labor Code Section 1507
    (a) An employee may bring a civil action in the superior court of the appropriate county to enforce this part. (b) The court may enjoin...
  • California Labor Code Section 1508
    This part shall be known and may be cited as the Michelle Maykin Memorial Donation Protection Act.
  • California Labor Code Section 1509
    For purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Employee" and "employee benefits" have the same meanings set forth in Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 1510
    (a) Subject to subdivision (b), an employer shall grant to an employee the following paid leaves of absence: (1) A leave of absence not exceeding...
  • California Labor Code Section 1511
    An employer shall, upon expiration of a leave authorized by this part, restore an employee to the position held by him or her when the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1512
    (a) An employer shall not interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise or the attempt to exercise a right established by this part. (b) An...
  • California Labor Code Section 1513
    (a) An employee may bring a civil action in the superior court of the appropriate county to enforce this part. (b) The court may enjoin...
  • California Labor Code Section 1682
    As used in this chapter: (a) "Person" includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation. (b) "Farm labor contractor" designates any person...
  • California Labor Code Section 1682.3
    "Farm labor contractor" includes any "day hauler." "Day hauler" means any person who is employed by a farm labor contractor to transport, or who for...
  • California Labor Code Section 1682.4
    "Farm labor contractor" does not include a commercial packing house engaged in both the harvesting and the packing of citrus fruit or soft fruit for...
  • California Labor Code Section 1682.5
    This chapter does not apply to: (a) A nonprofit corporation or organization with respect to services specified in subdivision (b) of Section 1682, which are...
  • California Labor Code Section 1682.7
    The Labor Commissioner shall ensure that the office maintained in Fresno has suitable facilities and sufficient personnel for the examination and licensing of farm labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 1682.8
    The Labor Commissioner may establish and maintain a Farm Labor Contractor Special Enforcement Unit within the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement office in Fresno of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1683
    (a) A person shall not act as a farm labor contractor until a license to do so has been issued to the person by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1684
    (a) The Labor Commissioner shall not issue to any person a license to act as a farm labor contractor, nor shall the Labor Commissioner renew...
  • California Labor Code Section 1684.3
    Whenever an application for a license or renewal is made, and application processing pursuant to this chapter has not been completed, the Labor Commissioner may,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1684.5
    The Labor Commissioner shall quarterly submit to the Department of the California Highway Patrol a list of all licensees.
  • California Labor Code Section 1685
    No license to operate as a farm labor contractor shall be granted: (a) To any person who sells or proposes to sell intoxicating liquors in...
  • California Labor Code Section 1686
    The Labor Commissioner, upon proper notice and hearing, may refuse to grant a license. The proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1687
    (a) Each laminated license shall contain, on the face thereof, all of the following: (1) The name and address of the licensee and the fact...
  • California Labor Code Section 1688
    The license when first issued shall run to the next birthday of the applicant, and each license shall then be renewed within the 30 days...
  • California Labor Code Section 1689
    All applications for renewal shall state the names and addresses of all persons, except bona fide employees on stated salaries, financially interested either as partners,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1690
    The Labor Commissioner may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any license when it is shown that any of the following have occurred: (a) The...
  • California Labor Code Section 1690.1
    If any licensee fails to remit the proper amount of worker contributions required by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 901) of Part 1 of Division...
  • California Labor Code Section 1691
    (a) If any licensee has been subject to two or more final judgments by a court for failure to pay wages due with respect to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1692
    Before revoking or suspending any license, the Labor Commissioner shall afford the holder of such license an opportunity to be heard in person or by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1692.5
    A licensee whose license is suspended or revoked pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall immediately surrender such license to the Labor Commissioner.
  • California Labor Code Section 1693
    The Labor Commissioner and the deputies and representatives authorized by the Labor Commissioner in writing may take assignments of actions on the bond against licensees...
  • California Labor Code Section 1694
    When a licensee has departed from the State with intent to defraud creditors or to avoid service of summons in any action brought under this...
  • California Labor Code Section 1695
    (a) Every licensee shall do all of the following: (1) Carry his or her license and proof of registration issued pursuant to paragraph (8) with...
  • California Labor Code Section 1695.5
    (a) Every farm labor contractor, upon request of any agricultural grower with whom he or she has a contract to supply farmworkers, shall immediately furnish...
  • California Labor Code Section 1695.55
    (a) Every person acting in the capacity of a farm labor contractor shall provide any grower with whom he or she has contracted to supply...
  • California Labor Code Section 1695.6
    No person shall knowingly enter into an agreement for the services of a farm labor contractor who is not licensed under this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 1695.7
    (a) (1) Prior to entering into any contract or agreement to supply agricultural labor or services to a grower, a farm labor contractor shall first...
  • California Labor Code Section 1695.8
    (a) No person whose license was suspended, revoked, or denied renewal by the Labor Commissioner shall perform any activity or service specified in subdivision (b)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1695.9
    Any person contracted by a farm labor contractor who is acting in the capacity of a farm labor contractor shall first provide to the farm...
  • California Labor Code Section 1696
    No licensee shall: (1) Make any misrepresentation or false statement in his application for a license. (2) Make or cause to be made, to any...
  • California Labor Code Section 1696.2
    All vehicles used by a licensee for the transportation of individuals in his operations as a farm labor contractor shall have displayed prominently at the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1696.3
    Any farm labor contractor or person employed by a farm labor contractor who operates a bus or truck in the transportation of individuals in connection...
  • California Labor Code Section 1696.4
    (a) All vehicles defined in Section 322 of the Vehicle Code, including those described in Section 1696.3, used by a farm labor contractor for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1696.5
    Every licensee shall, at the time of each payment of wages, which shall be not less often than once every week as required by Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 1696.6
    (a) No licensee shall recruit or solicit and transport an employee for farmwork unless he has first obtained, either orally or in writing, a bona...
  • California Labor Code Section 1696.8
    (a) The director shall establish a Farm Labor Contractor Enforcement Unit. The unit shall develop a program to provide technical assistance to a district attorney's...
  • California Labor Code Section 1697
    (a) Any person who violates this chapter, or who causes or induces another to violate this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1697.1
    (a) No person shall make, or cause to be made, false, fraudulent, or misleading representations that employment in the growing or producing of farm products,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1697.2
    Actions brought under this chapter shall be set for trial at the earliest possible date, and shall take precedence over all other cases, except older...
  • California Labor Code Section 1697.3
    Upon the final determination of the Labor Commissioner that a grower, a farm labor contractor, or person acting in the capacity of a farm labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 1698
    All fines collected for violations of this chapter shall be paid into the Farmworker Remedial Account and shall be available, upon appropriation, for purposes of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.1
    No licensee shall sell, transfer or give away any interest in or the right to participate in the profits of said licensee's business without the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.2
    No licensee shall knowingly issue a contract for employment containing any term or condition which, if complied with, would be in violation of law, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.3
    No licensee shall accept a fee from any applicant for employment, or send any applicant for employment without having obtained orally or in writing, a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.4
    No licensee shall send or cause to be sent, any woman or minor under the age of 18 years, as an employee to any house...
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.5
    No licensee shall send any minor to any saloon or place where intoxicating liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.6
    No licensee shall knowingly permit any persons of bad character, prostitutes, gamblers, intoxicated persons, or procurers to frequent his premises.
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.7
    No licensee shall accept any application for employment made by or on behalf of any child, or shall place or assist in placing any such...
  • California Labor Code Section 1698.8
    No licensee shall divide fees with an employer, an agent or other employee of an employer or person to whom help is furnished.
  • California Labor Code Section 1699
    The Labor Commissioner may, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700
    As used in this chapter, "person" means any individual, company, society, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, manager, or their agents or employees.
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.1
    As used in this chapter: (a) "Theatrical engagement" means any engagement or employment of a person as an actor, performer, or entertainer in a circus,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.2
    (a) As used in this chapter, "fee" means any of the following: (1) Any money or other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.3
    As used in this chapter: (a) "License" means a license issued by the Labor Commissioner to carry on the business of a talent agency under...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.4
    (a) "Talent agency" means a person or corporation who engages in the occupation of procuring, offering, promising, or attempting to procure employment or engagements for...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.5
    No person shall engage in or carry on the occupation of a talent agency without first procuring a license therefor from the Labor Commissioner. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.6
    A written application for a license shall be made to the Labor Commissioner in the form prescribed by him or her and shall state: (a)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.7
    Upon receipt of an application for a license the Labor Commissioner may cause an investigation to be made as to the character and responsibility of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.8
    The commissioner upon proper notice and hearing may refuse to grant a license. The proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing at...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.9
    No license shall be granted to conduct the business of a talent agency: (a) In a place that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.10
    The license when first issued shall run to the next birthday of the applicant, and each license shall then be renewed within the 30 days...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.11
    All applications for renewal shall state the names and addresses of all persons, except bona fide employees on stated salaries, financially interested either as partners,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.12
    A filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be paid to the Labor Commissioner at the time the application for issuance of a talent agency...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.13
    A filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be paid to the Labor Commissioner at the time application for consent to the transfer or assignment...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.14
    Whenever an application for a license or renewal is made, and application processing pursuant to this chapter has not been completed, the Labor Commissioner may,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.15
    A talent agency shall also deposit with the Labor Commissioner, prior to the issuance or renewal of a license, a surety bond in the penal...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.16
    Such surety bonds shall be payable to the people of the State of California, and shall be conditioned that the person applying for the license...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.18
    All moneys collected for licenses and all fines collected for violations of the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.19
    Each license shall contain all of the following: (a) The name of the licensee. (b) A designation of the city, street, and number of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.20
    No license shall protect any other than the person to whom it is issued nor any places other than those designated in the license. No...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.20a
    The Labor Commissioner may issue to a person eligible therefor a certificate of convenience to conduct the business of a talent agency where the person...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.20b
    To be eligible for a certificate of convenience, a person shall be either: (a) The executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased person...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.21
    The Labor Commissioner may revoke or suspend any license when it is shown that any of the following occur: (a) The licensee or his or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.22
    Before revoking or suspending any license, the Labor Commissioner shall afford the holder of such license an opportunity to be heard in person or by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.23
    Every talent agency shall submit to the Labor Commissioner a form or forms of contract to be utilized by such talent agency in entering into...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.24
    Every talent agency shall file with the Labor Commissioner a schedule of fees to be charged and collected in the conduct of that occupation, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.25
    (a) A licensee who receives any payment of funds on behalf of an artist shall immediately deposit that amount in a trust fund account maintained...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.26
    Every talent agency shall keep records in a form approved by the Labor Commissioner, in which shall be entered all of the following: (1) The...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.27
    All books, records, and other papers kept pursuant to this chapter by any talent agency shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.28
    Every talent agency shall post in a conspicuous place in the office of such talent agency a printed copy of this chapter and of such...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.29
    The Labor Commissioner may, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing at Section 11370), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.30
    No talent agency shall sell, transfer, or give away to any person other than a director, officer, manager, employee, or shareholder of the talent agency...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.31
    No talent agency shall knowingly issue a contract for employment containing any term or condition which, if complied with, would be in violation of law,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.32
    No talent agency shall publish or cause to be published any false, fraudulent, or misleading information, representation, notice, or advertisement. All advertisements of a talent...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.33
    No talent agency shall send or cause to be sent, any artist to any place where the health, safety, or welfare of the artist could...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.34
    No talent agency shall send any minor to any saloon or place where intoxicating liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.35
    No talent agency shall knowingly permit any persons of bad character, prostitutes, gamblers, intoxicated persons, or procurers to frequent, or be employed in, the place...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.36
    No talent agency shall accept any application for employment made by or on behalf of any minor, as defined by subdivision (c) of Section 1286,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.37
    A minor cannot disaffirm a contract, otherwise valid, entered into during minority, either during the actual minority of the minor entering into such contract or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.38
    No talent agency shall knowingly secure employment for an artist in any place where a strike, lockout, or other labor trouble exists, without notifying the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.39
    No talent agency shall divide fees with an employer, an agent or other employee of an employer.
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.40
    (a) No talent agency shall collect a registration fee. In the event that a talent agency shall collect from an artist a fee or expenses...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.41
    In cases where an artist is sent by a talent agency beyond the limits of the city in which the office of such talent agency...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.44
    (a) In cases of controversy arising under this chapter, the parties involved shall refer the matters in dispute to the Labor Commissioner, who shall hear...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.45
    Notwithstanding Section 1700.44, a provision in a contract providing for the decision by arbitration of any controversy under the contract or as to its existence,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1700.47
    It shall be unlawful for any licensee to refuse to represent any artist on account of that artist's race, color, creed, sex, national origin, religion,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1701
    For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Artist" means a person who is or seeks to become an actor,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1702
    No person shall own, operate, or act in the capacity of an advance-fee talent representation service or advertise, solicit for, or knowingly refer a person...
  • California Labor Code Section 1702.1
    (a) "Advance-fee talent representation service" means a person who provides or offers to provide, or advertises or represents itself as providing, an artist, directly or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1702.3
    A person who violates Section 1702 is subject to the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 1704).
  • California Labor Code Section 1702.4
    This article does not apply to the following: (a) A public educational institution. (b) A nonprofit corporation, organized to achieve economic adjustment and civic betterment,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1703
    (a) Every contract and agreement between an artist and a talent service shall be in writing, in at least 10-point type, and contain all of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1703.1
    (a) Every person engaging in the business of a talent service shall keep and maintain records of the talent service business, including the following: (1)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1703.3
    (a) Prior to advertising or engaging in business, a talent service shall file with the Labor Commissioner a bond in the amount of fifty thousand...
  • California Labor Code Section 1703.4
    (a) A talent service, its owners, directors, officers, agents, and employees shall not do any of the following: (1) Make or cause to be made...
  • California Labor Code Section 1703.5
    No talent scout shall use the same name as used by any other talent scout soliciting for the same talent service, and no talent service...
  • California Labor Code Section 1703.6
    This article does not apply to any of the following: (a) An entity described in subdivisions (a), (b), (d), (e), and (f) of Section 1702.4....
  • California Labor Code Section 1704
    A person, including, an owner, officer, director, agent, or employee of a talent service, who willfully violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1704.1
    The Attorney General, a district attorney, or a city attorney may institute an action for a violation of this chapter, including an action to restrain...
  • California Labor Code Section 1704.2
    A person who is injured by a violation of this chapter or by the breach of a contract subject to this chapter may bring an...
  • California Labor Code Section 1704.3
    The Labor Commissioner shall use the proceeds of a bond or deposit posted by a person pursuant to this chapter to satisfy a judgment or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1705
    The provisions of this chapter are not exclusive and do not relieve a person subject to this chapter from the duty to comply with all...
  • California Labor Code Section 1705.1
    The remedies provided in this chapter are not exclusive and shall be in addition to any other remedies or procedures provided in any other law,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1705.2
    A waiver by an artist of the provisions of this chapter is deemed contrary to public policy and void and unenforceable. An attempt by a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1705.3
    If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held unconstitutional, the remainder of the chapter and the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1705.4
    Compliance with this chapter does not satisfy and is not a substitute for the requirements mandated by any other applicable law, including the obligation to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1706
    (a) (1) No person shall represent or provide specified services to any artist who is a minor, under 18 years of age, without first submitting...
  • California Labor Code Section 1706.1
    A person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each violation is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten...
  • California Labor Code Section 1706.2
    The Attorney General, any district attorney, or any city attorney may institute an action for a violation of this chapter, including an action to restrain...
  • California Labor Code Section 1706.3
    A person who is injured as a result of any violation of this chapter committed by a person required to obtain a permit pursuant to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1706.4
    The provisions of this chapter are not exclusive and do not relieve any person subject to this chapter from the duty to comply with all...
  • California Labor Code Section 1706.5
    The remedies provided in this chapter are not exclusive and are in addition to any other remedies or procedures provided in any other law.
  • California Labor Code Section 1720
    (a) As used in this chapter, "public works" means: (1) Construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for in whole...
  • California Labor Code Section 1720.2
    For the limited purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 1770) of this chapter, "public works" also means any construction work done under private contract...
  • California Labor Code Section 1720.3
    (a) For the limited purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 1770), "public works" also means the hauling of refuse from a public works site...
  • California Labor Code Section 1720.4
    (a) This chapter shall not apply to any of the following work: (1) Any work performed by a volunteer. For purposes of this section, "volunteer"...
  • California Labor Code Section 1720.6
    For the limited purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 1770) of this chapter, "public work" also means any construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair...
  • California Labor Code Section 1721
    "Political subdivision" includes any county, city, district, public housing authority, or public agency of the state, and assessment or improvement districts.
  • California Labor Code Section 1722
    "Awarding body" or "body awarding the contract" means department, board, authority, officer or agent awarding a contract for public work.
  • California Labor Code Section 1722.1
    For the purposes of this chapter, "contractor" and "subcontractor" include a contractor, subcontractor, licensee, officer, agent, or representative thereof, acting in that capacity, when working...
  • California Labor Code Section 1723
    "Worker" includes laborer, worker, or mechanic.
  • California Labor Code Section 1724
    "Locality in which public work is performed" means the county in which the public work is done in cases in which the contract is awarded...
  • California Labor Code Section 1725
    "Alien" means any person who is not a born or fully naturalized citizen of the United States.
  • California Labor Code Section 1726
    (a) The body awarding the contract for public work shall take cognizance of violations of this chapter committed in the course of the execution of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1727
    (a) Before making payments to the contractor of money due under a contract for public work, the awarding body shall withhold and retain therefrom all...
  • California Labor Code Section 1728
    In cases of contracts with assessment or improvement districts where full payment is made in the form of a single warrant, or other evidence of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1729
    It shall be lawful for any contractor to withhold from any subcontractor under him sufficient sums to cover any penalties withheld from him by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1730
    The Director of Industrial Relations shall post a list of every California code section and the language of those sections that relate to the prevailing...
  • California Labor Code Section 1734
    Any court collecting any fines or penalties under the criminal provisions of this chapter or any of the labor laws pertaining to public works shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 1735
    A contractor shall not discriminate in the employment of persons upon public works on any basis listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940 of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1736
    During any investigation conducted under this part, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall keep confidential the name of any employee who reports a violation...
  • California Labor Code Section 1740
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other law of this State, except limitations imposed by the Constitution, the legislative body of a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1741
    (a) If the Labor Commissioner or his or her designee determines after an investigation that there has been a violation of this chapter, the Labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 1742
    (a) An affected contractor or subcontractor may obtain review of a civil wage and penalty assessment under this chapter by transmitting a written request to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1742.1
    (a) After 60 days following the service of a civil wage and penalty assessment under Section 1741 or a notice of withholding under subdivision (a)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1743
    (a) The contractor and subcontractor shall be jointly and severally liable for all amounts due pursuant to a final order under this chapter or a...
  • California Labor Code Section 1750
    (a) (1) The second lowest bidder, and any person, firm, association, trust, partnership, labor organization, corporation, or other legal entity which has, prior to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1770
    The Director of the Department of Industrial Relations shall determine the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in accordance with the standards set forth...
  • California Labor Code Section 1771
    Except for public works projects of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or less, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work...
  • California Labor Code Section 1771.2
    A joint labor-management committee established pursuant to the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (Section 175a of Title 29 of the United States Code)...
  • California Labor Code Section 1771.3
    (a) (1) The Department of Industrial Relations shall monitor and enforce compliance with applicable prevailing wage requirements for any public works project paid for in...
  • California Labor Code Section 1771.5
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 1771, an awarding body may choose not to require the payment of the general prevailing rate of per diem wages or the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1771.6
    (a) Any awarding body that enforces this chapter in accordance with Section 1726 or 1771.5 shall provide notice of the withholding of contract payments to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1771.7
    (a) (1) For contracts specified in subdivision (f), an awarding body that chooses to use funds derived from either the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond...
  • California Labor Code Section 1772
    Workers employed by contractors or subcontractors in the execution of any contract for public work are deemed to be employed upon public work.
  • California Labor Code Section 1773
    The body awarding any contract for public work, or otherwise undertaking any public work, shall obtain the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.1
    (a) Per diem wages, when the term is used in this chapter or in any other statute applicable to public works, shall be deemed to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.2
    The body awarding any contract for public work, or otherwise undertaking any public work, shall specify in the call for bids for the contract, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.3
    An awarding agency whose public works contract falls within the jurisdiction of Section 1771.3, 1771.5, or 1777.5, or any other statute providing for the payment...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.4
    Any prospective bidder or his representative, any representative of any craft, classification or type of workman involved, or the awarding body may, within 20 days...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.5
    The Director of Industrial Relations may establish rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out this chapter, including, but not limited to, the responsibilities...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.6
    If during any quarterly period the Director of Industrial Relations shall determine that there has been a change in any prevailing rate of per diem...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.7
    The provisions of Section 11250 of the Government Code shall not be applicable to Sections 1773, 1773.4, and 1773.6.
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.8
    An increased employer payment contribution that results in a lower taxable wage shall not be considered a violation of the applicable prevailing wage determination so...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.9
    (a) The Director of Industrial Relations shall use the methodology set forth in subdivision (b) to determine the general prevailing rate of per diem wages...
  • California Labor Code Section 1773.11
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as otherwise provided by this section, if the state or a political subdivision thereof agrees by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1774
    The contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and any subcontractor under him, shall pay not less than the specified prevailing rates of wages to...
  • California Labor Code Section 1775
    (a) (1) The contractor and any subcontractor under the contractor shall, as a penalty to the state or political subdivision on whose behalf the contract...
  • California Labor Code Section 1776
    (a) Each contractor and subcontractor shall keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked...
  • California Labor Code Section 1777
    Any officer, agent, or representative of the State or of any political subdivision who wilfully violates any provision of this article, and any contractor, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1777.1
    (a) Whenever a contractor or subcontractor performing a public works project pursuant to this chapter is found by the Labor Commissioner to be in violation...
  • California Labor Code Section 1777.5
    (a) Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the employment of properly registered apprentices upon public works. (b) Every apprentice employed upon public works shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 1777.6
    An employer or a labor union shall not refuse to accept otherwise qualified employees as registered apprentices on any public works on any basis listed...
  • California Labor Code Section 1777.7
    (a) (1) A contractor or subcontractor that is determined by the Labor Commissioner to have knowingly violated Section 1777.5 shall forfeit as a civil penalty...
  • California Labor Code Section 1778
    Every person, who individually or as a representative of an awarding or public body or officer, or as a contractor or subcontractor doing public work,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1779
    Any person or agent or officer thereof who charges, collects, or attempts to charge or collect, directly or indirectly, a fee or valuable consideration for...
  • California Labor Code Section 1780
    Any person acting on behalf of the State or any political subdivision, or any contractor or subcontractor or agent or representative thereof, doing any public...
  • California Labor Code Section 1781
    (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a contractor may, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), bring an action in a court of competent...
  • California Labor Code Section 1810
    Eight hours labor constitutes a legal day's work in all cases where the same is performed under the authority of any law of this State,...
  • California Labor Code Section 1811
    The time of service of any workman employed upon public work is limited and restricted to 8 hours during any one calendar day, and 40...
  • California Labor Code Section 1812
    Every contractor and subcontractor shall keep an accurate record showing the name of and actual hours worked each calendar day and each calendar week by...
  • California Labor Code Section 1813
    The contractor or subcontractor shall, as a penalty to the state or political subdivision on whose behalf the contract is made or awarded, forfeit twenty-five...
  • California Labor Code Section 1814
    Any officer, agent, or representative of the State or any political subdivision who violates any provision of this article and any contractor or subcontractor or...
  • California Labor Code Section 1815
    Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 1810 to 1814, inclusive, of this code, and notwithstanding any stipulation inserted in any contract pursuant to the requirements of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1860
    The awarding body shall cause to be inserted in every public works contract a clause providing that, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3700...
  • California Labor Code Section 1861
    Each contractor to whom a public works contract is awarded shall sign and file with the awarding body the following certification prior to performing the...
  • California Labor Code Section 1900
    Every employee of a city whose hours of labor exceed 120 in a week is entitled to be off duty at least three hours during...
  • California Labor Code Section 1901
    Any officer or agent of a city having supervision and control of employees covered by this article who violates any provision hereof is guilty of...
  • California Labor Code Section 1960
    Neither the State nor any county, political subdivision, incorporated city, town, nor any other municipal corporation shall prohibit, deny or obstruct the right of firefighters...
  • California Labor Code Section 1961
    As used in this chapter, the term "employees" means the employees of the fire departments and fire services of the State, counties, cities, cities and...
  • California Labor Code Section 1962
    Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to present grievances and recommendations regarding wages, salaries, hours, and working...
  • California Labor Code Section 1963
    The enactment of this chapter shall not be construed as making the provisions of Section 923 of this code applicable to public employees.
  • California Labor Code Section 1964
    (a) The governing body of any regularly organized volunteer fire department may, but shall not be required to, adopt regulations governing the removal of volunteer...
  • California Labor Code Section 2010
    As used in this chapter, "State agency" means any department, division, board, bureau, or commission of the State.
  • California Labor Code Section 2011
    The Department of Finance shall ascertain and secure from the several State agencies tentative plans for the extension of public works which are best adapted...
  • California Labor Code Section 2012
    The department shall keep constantly advised of industrial conditions throughout the State as affecting the employment of labor. Whenever the Governor represents or the division...
  • California Labor Code Section 2013
    If the department reports to the Governor that a condition of extraordinary unemployment caused by industrial depression does exist within this state, the Department of...
  • California Labor Code Section 2014
    The Department of Employment Development immediately upon the publication of a finding under this chapter that a period of extraordinary unemployment due to industrial depression...
  • California Labor Code Section 2015
    Preference for employment under this chapter shall be extended: First, to citizens of this State. Second, to citizens of other States within the United States,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2050
    The enactment of this part is an exercise of the police power of the State of California for the protection for the public welfare, prosperity,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2051
    As used in this part: (a) "Car washing and polishing" means washing, cleaning, drying, polishing, detailing, servicing, or otherwise providing cosmetic care to vehicles. "Car...
  • California Labor Code Section 2052
    Every employer shall keep accurate records for three years, showing all of the following: (a) The names and addresses of all employees engaged in rendering...
  • California Labor Code Section 2053
    The Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement shall enforce this chapter. The commissioner may adopt any regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this
  • California Labor Code Section 2054
    Every employer shall register with the commissioner annually.
  • California Labor Code Section 2055
    The commissioner may not permit any employer to register, nor may the commissioner permit any employer to renew registration until all of the following conditions...
  • California Labor Code Section 2056
    When a certificate of registration is originally issued or renewed under this chapter, the commissioner shall provide related and supplemental information to the registrant regarding...
  • California Labor Code Section 2057
    Proof of registration shall be by an official Division of Labor Standards Enforcement registration form. Each employer shall post the registration form where it may...
  • California Labor Code Section 2058
    At least 30 days prior to the expiration of each registrant's registration, the commissioner shall mail a renewal notice to the last known address of...
  • California Labor Code Section 2059
    (a) The commissioner shall collect from employers a registration fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each branch location. The commissioner may periodically adjust...
  • California Labor Code Section 2060
    No employer may conduct any business without complying with the registration and bond requirements of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 2061
    The commissioner may not approve the registration of any employer until all of the following conditions are satisfied: (a) The employer has executed a written...
  • California Labor Code Section 2062
    The commissioner may not register or renew the registration of an employer in any of the following circumstances: (a) The employer has not fully satisfied...
  • California Labor Code Section 2063
    On the Web site of the Department of Industrial Relations the Labor Commissioner shall post a list of registered car washing and polishing businesses, including...
  • California Labor Code Section 2064
    An employer who fails to register pursuant to Section 2054 is subject to a civil fine of one hundred dollars ($100) for each calendar day,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2065
    (a) The Car Wash Worker Restitution Fund is established in the State Treasury. (1) The following moneys shall be deposited into this fund: (A) The...
  • California Labor Code Section 2066
    A successor to any employer that is engaged in car washing and polishing that owed wages and penalties to the predecessor's former employee or employees...
  • California Labor Code Section 2067
    This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
  • California Labor Code Section 2068
    The commissioner shall study and report to the Legislature, not later than December 31, 2008, on the status of labor law violations and enforcement in...
  • California Labor Code Section 2260
    All employers shall comply with standards relating to sanitary facilities adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with...
  • California Labor Code Section 2330
    The owner or manager of every foundry or metal shop engaged in the casting, fabricating, or working over in any manner of any metal or...
  • California Labor Code Section 2331
    The owner or manager of every foundry or metal shop engaged in the casting, fabricating, or working over in any manner of any metal or...
  • California Labor Code Section 2350
    Every factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment in which one or more persons are employed, shall be kept clean and free from the effluvia arising...
  • California Labor Code Section 2351
    Every factory or workshop in which one or more persons are employed shall be so ventilated while work is carried on that the air will...
  • California Labor Code Section 2352
    No place which the Labor Commissioner condemns as unhealthy and unsuitable, shall be used as a place of employment.
  • California Labor Code Section 2353
    In any factory, workshop, or other establishment where dust, filaments, or injurious gases are produced or generated, which may be inhaled by employees, the person,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2354
    Any person violating this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than...
  • California Labor Code Section 2355
    The Labor Commissioner shall enforce this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 2440
    All employers shall comply with standards relating to the ready availability of medical services and first aid adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards...
  • California Labor Code Section 2441
    (a) Every employer of labor in this state shall, without making a charge therefor, provide fresh and pure drinking water to his or her employees...
  • California Labor Code Section 2650
    As used in this part: (a) "To manufacture" means to make, process, prepare, alter, repair, or finish in whole or in part, or to assemble,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2651
    The manufacture by industrial homework of any of the following materials or articles shall be unlawful, and no license or permit issued under this part...
  • California Labor Code Section 2652
    The division shall have the power to make an investigation of any industry not specifically exempted and made unlawful by Section 2651 which employs industrial...
  • California Labor Code Section 2653
    To effectuate the provisions of this part, the division shall have the powers given by Article 2 (commencing with Section 11180) of Chapter 2, Part...
  • California Labor Code Section 2654
    If, on the basis of information in its possession, with or without an investigation, the division shall find that industrial homework cannot be continued within...
  • California Labor Code Section 2655
    After making such order the division shall hold a public hearing or hearings at which an opportunity to be heard shall be afforded to any...
  • California Labor Code Section 2656
    The division may seek a search warrant pursuant to the procedures set forth in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1523) of Title 12 of Part...
  • California Labor Code Section 2658
    No person shall employ an industrial homeworker in any industry not prohibited by Section 2651 unless the person employing an industrial homeworker has obtained a...
  • California Labor Code Section 2658.1
    Every person who, without having in his possession a then valid industrial homework license issued to him by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, negligently...
  • California Labor Code Section 2658.5
    Every person, which term shall be deemed to include manufacturers, contractors, jobbers and wholesalers, who, without having in his possession a then-valid industrial homework license...
  • California Labor Code Section 2658.7
    Any goods, assembled or partially assembled, whether found in the homeworker's home, in transit to or from the home, or in the manufacturer's or his...
  • California Labor Code Section 2659
    No person shall engage, suffer or permit any person to do industrial homework, or tolerate, suffer or permit articles or materials under his custody or...
  • California Labor Code Section 2660
    No person shall do industrial homework within this state unless he has in his possession a valid homeworker's permit issued to him by the division....
  • California Labor Code Section 2660.1
    Every person doing industrial homework, with or without a valid homeworker's permit issued by the division, shall reveal to the division, on demand, the name...
  • California Labor Code Section 2660.5
    Every person who does industrial homework without having in his possession a valid homeworker's permit issued to him by the division is guilty of a...
  • California Labor Code Section 2661
    No homeworker's permit shall be issued to any person under the age of 16 years; or to any person suffering from an infectious, contagious, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 2662
    The division may revoke or suspend any homeworker's permit upon a finding that the industrial homeworker is performing industrial homework contrary to the conditions under...
  • California Labor Code Section 2663
    No person shall tolerate, suffer or permit any materials or articles to be manufactured by industrial homework unless there has been conspicuously affixed to each...
  • California Labor Code Section 2664
    (a) Any article or material which is being manufactured in a home in violation of any provision of this part may be confiscated by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 2665
    Every person who employs or otherwise avails himself of the services of industrial homeworkers in this State shall: (a) Comply with the labor standards as...
  • California Labor Code Section 2666
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall enforce the provisions of this part. The division and the authorized representatives of the Department of Industrial Relations...
  • California Labor Code Section 2667
    Unless otherwise provided herein, every person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, employee or independent contractor for another person who violates or refuses...
  • California Labor Code Section 2670
    It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this part, to establish a system of registration, penalties, confiscation, bonding requirements, and misdemeanors for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 2671
    As used in this part: (a) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association, and includes, but is not limited to, employers,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2672
    The commissioner shall promulgate all regulations and rules necessary to carry out the provisions of this part. The commissioner, upon good cause, may impose, in...
  • California Labor Code Section 2673
    Every employer engaged in the business of garment manufacturing shall keep accurate records for three years which show all of the following: (a) The names...
  • California Labor Code Section 2673.1
    (a) To ensure that employees are paid for all hours worked, a person engaged in garment manufacturing, as defined in Section 2671, who contracts with...
  • California Labor Code Section 2674
    The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall enforce Section 2673 and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 2675).
  • California Labor Code Section 2674.1
    The commissioner shall appoint an advisory committee on garment manufacturing to advise him or her of common industry problems and to effect liaison between his...
  • California Labor Code Section 2674.2
    In the annual budget submitted to the Legislature pursuant to Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution, the Governor shall include a detailed...
  • California Labor Code Section 2675
    (a) For purposes of enforcing this part and Sections 204, 209, 212, 221, 222, 222.5, 223, 226, 227, and 227.5, Chapter 2 (commencing with Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 2675.2
    Whenever an application for renewal of registration is received by the Labor Commissioner 30 days prior to the expiration of the registration, and the Labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 2675.5
    (a) The commissioner shall deposit seventy-five dollars ($75) of each registrant's annual registration fee, required pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 2675,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2676
    Any person engaged in the business of garment manufacturing who is not registered is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as provided in subdivision (d) of...
  • California Labor Code Section 2676.5
    (a) Every person registered as a garment manufacturer shall display on the front entrance of his or her business premise, and also, if the front...
  • California Labor Code Section 2676.7
    Any local agency which issues business licenses or permits shall require, as a condition of issuing any business license or permit for a garment manufacturing...
  • California Labor Code Section 2677
    (a) Any person engaged in the business of garment manufacturing who contracts with any other person similarly engaged who has not registered with the commissioner...
  • California Labor Code Section 2677.5
    It shall be illegal for any person registered pursuant to this chapter and contracting with another registrant to engage in any business practice which causes...
  • California Labor Code Section 2678
    (a) A penalty, as provided in subdivision (c), may be imposed against any person for any of the following: (1) Failure to comply within 15...
  • California Labor Code Section 2679
    (a) The commissioner, in addition to any civil penalty imposed pursuant to Section 2679, may require that as a condition of continued registration, such employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 2680
    (a) Any garment or wearing apparel, assembled or partially assembled by or on behalf of any person who has not complied with the registration requirements...
  • California Labor Code Section 2680.5
    The commissioner shall have the authority to investigate and mediate pricing and quality disputes arising out of written contracts between manufacturers and contractors in the...
  • California Labor Code Section 2681
    (a) Any person against whom a penalty is assessed or whose goods are confiscated shall, in lieu of contesting the penalty or the confiscation pursuant...
  • California Labor Code Section 2682
    Moneys recovered under this chapter shall be applied first to payment of wages due affected employees. If insufficient funds are withheld or recovered, the money...
  • California Labor Code Section 2684
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that persons who are primarily engaged in sewing or assembly of garments for other persons engaged in garment manufacturing...
  • California Labor Code Section 2685
    The commissioner shall establish, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, procedures for mandatory arbitration of pricing and product quality disputes arising out of...
  • California Labor Code Section 2686
    Upon the written request of any manufacturer or contractor, the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service shall notify the other party to the dispute of...
  • California Labor Code Section 2687
    Within seven days of appointment, the chairperson of the panel shall notify the parties in writing of the date, time, and location of the hearing...
  • California Labor Code Section 2688
    On the date and time specified in the hearing notice, the chairperson shall convene the hearing and shall determine whether each party is represented. If...
  • California Labor Code Section 2689
    To facilitate the conduct of the hearing, the following procedures shall govern: (a) Upon good cause shown by a party, the chairperson shall be empowered...
  • California Labor Code Section 2690
    Within 15 days after the conclusion of the hearing, the panel shall make a written award, which shall determine all questions submitted for arbitration. All...
  • California Labor Code Section 2691
    Within 10 days of receipt of notice of the award, the party or parties who are required to comply with the terms of the award...
  • California Labor Code Section 2692
    The basic costs of the arbitration proceeding, including interpreters requested by the panel, shall be borne equally by all parties to the proceeding, provided, however,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2695.1
    (a) In enacting this legislation, it is the intent of the Legislature to codify certain labor protections that should be afforded to sheepherders, as defined....
  • California Labor Code Section 2695.2
    (a) (1) For a sheepherder employed on a regularly scheduled 24-hour shift on a seven-day-a-week "on-call" basis, an employer may, as an alternative to paying...
  • California Labor Code Section 2698
    This part shall be known and may be cited as the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004.
  • California Labor Code Section 2699
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any provision of this code that provides for a civil penalty to be assessed and collected by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 2699.3
    (a) A civil action by an aggrieved employee pursuant to subdivision (a) or (f) of Section 2699 alleging a violation of any provision listed in...
  • California Labor Code Section 2699.5
    The provisions of subdivision (a) of Section 2699.3 apply to any alleged violation of the following provisions: subdivision (k) of Section 96, Sections 98.6, 201,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2700
    The provisions of this division shall not limit, change, or in any way qualify the provisions of Divisions 4 and 4.5 of this code, but...
  • California Labor Code Section 2750
    The contract of employment is a contract by which one, who is called the employer, engages another, who is called the employee, to do something...
  • California Labor Code Section 2750.5
    There is a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof that a worker performing services for which a license is required pursuant to Chapter 9...
  • California Labor Code Section 2750.6
    There is a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof that a physician and surgeon, licensed pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of...
  • California Labor Code Section 2751
    (a) Whenever an employer enters into a contract of employment with an employee for services to be rendered within this state and the contemplated method...
  • California Labor Code Section 2753
    (a) A person who, for money or other valuable consideration, knowingly advises an employer to treat an individual as an independent contractor to avoid employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 2800
    An employer shall in all cases indemnify his employee for losses caused by the employer's want of ordinary care.
  • California Labor Code Section 2800.1
    An employer shall in all cases take reasonable and necessary precautions to safeguard musical instruments and equipment, belonging to an employed musician, located on premises...
  • California Labor Code Section 2800.2
    (a) Any employer, employee association, or other entity otherwise providing hospital, surgical, or major medical benefits to its employees or members is solely responsible for...
  • California Labor Code Section 2800.3
    Any employer, other than a self-insurer, employee association or other entity otherwise providing hospital, surgical or major medical benefits to its employees or members shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 2801
    In any action to recover damages for a personal injury sustained within this State by an employee while engaged in the line of his duty...
  • California Labor Code Section 2802
    (a) An employer shall indemnify his or her employee for all necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge...
  • California Labor Code Section 2803
    When death, whether instantaneously or otherwise, results from an injury to an employee caused by the want of ordinary or reasonable care of an employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 2803.4
    (a) Any employer providing health benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 1001, et seq.) shall not provide an...
  • California Labor Code Section 2803.5
    Any employer who offers health care coverage, including employers and insurers, shall comply with the standards set forth in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 3750)...
  • California Labor Code Section 2804
    Any contract or agreement, express or implied, made by any employee to waive the benefits of this article or any part thereof, is null and...
  • California Labor Code Section 2806
    (a) No employer, whether private or public, shall discontinue coverage for medical, surgical, or hospital benefits for employees unless the employer has notified and advised...
  • California Labor Code Section 2807
    (a) All employers, whether private or public, shall provide notification to former employees, along with the notification required by federal law pursuant to the Consolidated...
  • California Labor Code Section 2808
    (a) It is the responsibility of all employers, whether public or private, to provide to all eligible employees an outline of coverage or similar explanation...
  • California Labor Code Section 2809
    (a) Any employer, whether private or public, that offers its employees an employer-managed deferred compensation plan shall provide to each employee, prior to the employee's...
  • California Labor Code Section 2810
    (a) A person or entity shall not enter into a contract or agreement for labor or services with a construction, farm labor, garment, janitorial, security...
  • California Labor Code Section 2810.5
    (a) (1) At the time of hiring, an employer shall provide to each employee a written notice, in the language the employer normally uses to...
  • California Labor Code Section 2811
    This article shall be known and may be cited as the Employment Acceleration Act of 2011.
  • California Labor Code Section 2812
    Except as required by federal law, or as a condition of receiving federal funds, neither the state nor a city, county, city and county, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 2813
    For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Electronic employment verification system" means an employment verification system that allows employers...
  • California Labor Code Section 2850
    One who, without consideration, undertakes to do a service for another, is not bound to perform the same but if he actually enters upon its...
  • California Labor Code Section 2851
    One who, by his own special request, induces another to intrust him with the performance of a service, shall perform the same fully. In other...
  • California Labor Code Section 2852
    A gratuitous employee, who accepts a written power of attorney, shall act under it so long as it remains in force, or until he gives...
  • California Labor Code Section 2853
    One who is employed at his own request to do that which is more for his own advantage than for that of his employer, shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 2854
    One who, for a good consideration, agrees to serve another, shall perform the service, and shall use ordinary care and diligence therein, so long as...
  • California Labor Code Section 2855
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a contract to render personal service, other than a contract of apprenticeship as provided in Chapter 4...
  • California Labor Code Section 2856
    An employee shall substantially comply with all the directions of his employer concerning the service on which he is engaged, except where such obedience is...
  • California Labor Code Section 2857
    An employee shall perform his service in conformity to the usage of the place of performance, unless otherwise directed by his employer, or unless it...
  • California Labor Code Section 2858
    An employee is bound to exercise a reasonable degree of skill, unless his employer has notice, before employing him, of his want of skill.
  • California Labor Code Section 2859
    An employee is always bound to use such skill as he possesses, so far as the same is required, for the service specified.
  • California Labor Code Section 2860
    Everything which an employee acquires by virtue of his employment, except the compensation which is due to him from his employer, belongs to the employer,...
  • California Labor Code Section 2861
    An employee shall, on demand, render to his employer just accounts of all his transactions in the course of his service, as often as is...
  • California Labor Code Section 2862
    An employee who receives anything on account of his employer, in any capacity other than that of a mere servant, is not bound to deliver...
  • California Labor Code Section 2863
    An employee who has any business to transact on his own account, similar to that intrusted to him by his employer, shall always give the...
  • California Labor Code Section 2864
    An employee who is expressly authorized to employ a substitute is liable to his principal only for want of ordinary care in his selection. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 2865
    An employee who is guilty of a culpable degree of negligence is liable to his employer for the damage thereby caused to the employer. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 2866
    Where service is to be rendered by two or more persons jointly, and one of them dies, the survivor shall act alone, if the service...
  • California Labor Code Section 2870
    (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in...
  • California Labor Code Section 2871
    No employer shall require a provision made void and unenforceable by Section 2870 as a condition of employment or continued employment. Nothing in this article...
  • California Labor Code Section 2872
    If an employment agreement entered into after January 1, 1980, contains a provision requiring the employee to assign or offer to assign any of his...
  • California Labor Code Section 2920
    Every employment is terminated by any of the following: (a) Expiration of its appointed term. (b) Extinction of its subject. (c) Death of the employee....
  • California Labor Code Section 2921
    Every employment in which the power of the employee is not coupled with an interest in its subject is terminated by notice to the employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 2922
    An employment, having no specified term, may be terminated at the will of either party on notice to the other. Employment for a specified term...
  • California Labor Code Section 2923
    An employee, unless the term of his service has expired or unless he has a right to discontinue it at any time without notice, shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 2924
    An employment for a specified term may be terminated at any time by the employer in case of any willful breach of duty by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 2925
    An employment for a specified term may be terminated by the employee at any time in case of any wilful or permanent breach of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 2926
    An employee who is not employed for a specified term and who is dismissed by his employer is entitled to compensation for services rendered up...
  • California Labor Code Section 2927
    An employee who is not employed for a specified term and who quits the service of his employer is entitled to compensation for services rendered...
  • California Labor Code Section 2928
    No deduction from the wages of an employee on account of his coming late to work shall be made in excess of the proportionate wage...
  • California Labor Code Section 2929
    (a) As used in this section: (1) "Garnishment" means any judicial procedure through which the wages of an employee are required to be withheld for...
  • California Labor Code Section 2930
    (a) Any employer who disciplines or discharges an employee on the basis of a shopping investigator's report of the employee's conduct, performance, or honesty performed...
  • California Labor Code Section 3070
    There is in the Division of Apprenticeship Standards the California Apprenticeship Council, which shall be appointed by the Governor, composed of six representatives each from...
  • California Labor Code Section 3071
    The California Apprenticeship Council shall meet at the call of the Director of Industrial Relations and shall aid him or her in formulating policies for...
  • California Labor Code Section 3072
    The Director of Industrial Relations is ex officio the Administrator of Apprenticeship and is authorized to appoint assistants as necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3073
    The Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, or his or her duly authorized representative, shall administer the provisions of this chapter; act as secretary...
  • California Labor Code Section 3073.1
    (a) The division shall audit apprenticeship programs to ensure that the program audited is complying with its standards, that all on-the-job training is supervised by...
  • California Labor Code Section 3073.3
    It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Industrial Relations will encourage greater participation for women and ethnic minorities in apprenticeship programs.
  • California Labor Code Section 3073.5
    The Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards and the California Apprenticeship Council shall annually report through the Director of Industrial Relations to the Legislature...
  • California Labor Code Section 3074
    The preparation of trade analyses and development of curriculum for instruction, and the administration and supervision of related and supplemental instruction for apprentices, coordination of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3074.1
    In compliance with the affirmative action requirements of California's plan for equal opportunity in apprenticeship, school districts maintaining high schools, community colleges districts, and apprenticeship...
  • California Labor Code Section 3074.3
    In providing related and supplemental instruction pursuant to Section 3074, and notwithstanding any provisions of the Education Code, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3074.7
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of a school district which offers classroom instruction in postgraduate and upgrading courses pursuant to subdivision...
  • California Labor Code Section 3075
    (a) An apprenticeship program may be administered by a joint apprenticeship committee, unilateral management or labor apprenticeship committee, or an individual employer. Programs may be...
  • California Labor Code Section 3075.1
    It is the public policy of this state to encourage the utilization of apprenticeship as a form of on-the-job training, when such training is cost-effective...
  • California Labor Code Section 3075.5
    (a) This section applies when a building and construction trades industry program applies to the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards for approval of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3075.6
    Each building and construction trades apprenticeship program shall provide to each apprentice, on at least a semiannual basis, a statement showing the number of hours...
  • California Labor Code Section 3075.7
    Every building and construction trades industry apprenticeship program shall submit apprentice registration, change of address, graduation, and termination data to the Division of Apprenticeship Standards...
  • California Labor Code Section 3076
    The function of a joint apprenticeship committee, when specific written authority is delegated by the parent organizations represented, shall be to establish work processes, wage...
  • California Labor Code Section 3076.3
    Program sponsors shall establish selection procedures which specify minimum requirements for formal education or equivalency, physical examination, if any, subject matter of written tests and...
  • California Labor Code Section 3076.5
    A program sponsor may provide in its selection procedures for an additional 10 points credit in the selection of veteran applicants for apprenticeship. "Veteran," as...
  • California Labor Code Section 3077
    The term "apprentice" as used in this chapter, means a person at least 16 years of age who has entered into a written agreement, in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3077.5
    A program sponsor administering an apprenticeship program under this chapter shall not provide a maximum age for apprentices.
  • California Labor Code Section 3078
    Every apprentice agreement entered into under this chapter shall directly, or by reference, contain: (a) The names of the contracting parties. (b) The date of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3079
    Every apprentice agreement under this chapter shall be approved by the local joint apprenticeship committee or the parties to a collective bargaining agreement or, subject...
  • California Labor Code Section 3080
    (a) For the purpose of providing greater diversity of training or continuity of employment, any apprentice agreement made under this chapter may in the discretion...
  • California Labor Code Section 3081
    Upon the complaint of any interested person or upon his own initiative, the administrator may investigate to determine if there has been a violation of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3082
    The determination of the administrator shall be filed with the California Apprenticeship Council. If no appeal therefrom is filed with the California Apprenticeship Council within...
  • California Labor Code Section 3083
    The decision of the California Apprenticeship Council as to the facts shall be conclusive if supported by the evidence and all orders and decisions of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3084
    Any party to an apprentice agreement aggrieved by an order or decision of the California Apprenticeship Council may maintain appropriate proceedings in the courts on...
  • California Labor Code Section 3084.5
    In any case in which a person or persons have willfully violated any of the laws, regulations, or orders governing applicants for apprenticeship or apprentices...
  • California Labor Code Section 3085
    No person shall institute any action for the enforcement of any apprentice agreement, or damages for the breach of any apprentice agreement, made under this...
  • California Labor Code Section 3086
    Nothing in this chapter or in any apprentice agreement approved under this chapter shall operate to invalidate any apprenticeship provision in any collective agreement between...
  • California Labor Code Section 3088
    If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter and the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3089
    This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Shelley-Maloney Apprentice Labor Standards Act of 1939.
  • California Labor Code Section 3090
    The Division of Apprenticeship Standards shall investigate, approve or reject applications from establishments for apprenticeship and other on-the-job training, and for that purpose, may cooperate,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3091
    Acceptance of an application for entrance into an apprenticeship training program shall not be predicated on the payment of any fee. Reasonable costs for expense...
  • California Labor Code Section 3091.5
    Pursuant to Section 16370 of the Government Code, there is hereby authorized in the State Treasury a Special Deposit Fund Account, which shall consist of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3092
    A successful graduate of a training program in a particular apprenticeable occupation of a vocational education program meeting the standards of the California State Plan...
  • California Labor Code Section 3093
    (a) This section applies only when voluntarily requested by the parties to a collective bargaining agreement or by an employer, his or her association, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 3095
    Every person who willfully discriminates in any recruitment or apprenticeship program on any basis listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940 of the Government Code,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3097
    The Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Apprenticeship Standards, may cooperate in the provision of, or provide, services to the Employment Development Department, and to...
  • California Labor Code Section 3098
    An apprentice registered in an approved apprenticeship program in any of the building and construction trades shall be employed only as an apprentice when performing...
  • California Labor Code Section 3200
    The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term "workmen's compensation" shall hereafter also be known as "workers' compensation, " and that the "Workmen's Compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 3201
    This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) are an expression of the police power and are intended to make effective and apply to...
  • California Labor Code Section 3201.5
    (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the Department of Industrial Relations and the courts of this state shall recognize as valid and...
  • California Labor Code Section 3201.7
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the Department of Industrial Relations and the courts of this state shall recognize as valid and binding any...
  • California Labor Code Section 3201.81
    In the horse racing industry, the organization certified by the California Horse Racing Board to represent the majority of licensed jockeys pursuant to subdivision (b)...
  • California Labor Code Section 3201.9
    (a) On or before June 30, 2004, and biannually thereafter, the report required in subdivision (i) of Section 3201.5 and subdivision (h) of Section 3201.7...
  • California Labor Code Section 3202
    This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) shall be liberally construed by the courts with the purpose of extending their benefits for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3202.5
    All parties and lien claimants shall meet the evidentiary burden of proof on all issues by a preponderance of the evidence in order that all...
  • California Labor Code Section 3203
    This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) do not apply to employers or employments which, according to law, are so engaged in interstate...
  • California Labor Code Section 3204
    Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions hereinafter set forth in this chapter shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms and phrases used...
  • California Labor Code Section 3205
    "Division" means the Division of Workers' Compensation.
  • California Labor Code Section 3205.5
    "Appeals board" means the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board of the Division of Workers' Compensation.
  • California Labor Code Section 3206
    "Administrative director" means the Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation.
  • California Labor Code Section 3207
    "Compensation" means compensation under this division and includes every benefit or payment conferred by this division upon an injured employee, or in the event of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3208
    "Injury" includes any injury or disease arising out of the employment, including injuries to artificial members, dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses and medical braces of all...
  • California Labor Code Section 3208.05
    (a) "Injury" includes a reaction to or a side effect arising from health care provided by an employer to a health care worker, which health...
  • California Labor Code Section 3208.1
    An injury may be either: (a) "specific," occurring as the result of one incident or exposure which causes disability or need for medical treatment; or...
  • California Labor Code Section 3208.2
    When disability, need for medical treatment, or death results from the combined effects of two or more injuries, either specific, cumulative, or both, all questions...
  • California Labor Code Section 3208.3
    (a) A psychiatric injury shall be compensable if it is a mental disorder which causes disability or need for medical treatment, and it is diagnosed...
  • California Labor Code Section 3208.4
    In any proceeding under this division involving an injury arising out of alleged conduct that constitutes sexual harassment, sexual assault, or sexual battery, any party...
  • California Labor Code Section 3209
    "Damages" means the recovery allowed in an action at law as contrasted with compensation.
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.3
    (a) "Physician" includes physicians and surgeons holding an M.D. or D.O. degree, psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, and chiropractic practitioners licensed by California state law...
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.4
    The inclusion of optometrists in Section 3209.3 does not imply any right or entitle any optometrist to represent, advertise, or hold himself out as a
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.5
    Medical, surgical, and hospital treatment, including nursing, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, crutches, and apparatus, includes but is not limited to services and supplies by...
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.6
    The inclusion of chiropractors in Sections 3209.3 and 3209.5 does not imply any right or entitle any chiropractor to represent, advertise, or hold himself out...
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.7
    Treatment of injuries at the expense of the employer may also include, either in addition to or in place of medical, surgical, and hospital services,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.8
    Treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve from the effects of an injury shall include the services of marriage and family therapists and clinical social...
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.9
    The inclusion of acupuncturists in Section 3209.3 does not imply any right or entitle any acupuncturist to represent, advertise, or hold himself or herself out...
  • California Labor Code Section 3209.10
    (a) Medical treatment of a work-related injury required to cure or relieve the effects of the injury may be provided by a state licensed physician...
  • California Labor Code Section 3210
    "Person" includes an individual, firm, voluntary association, or a public, quasi public, or private corporation.
  • California Labor Code Section 3211
    "Insurer" includes the State Compensation Insurance Fund and any private company, corporation, mutual association, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange authorized under the laws of this State...
  • California Labor Code Section 3211.5
    For purposes of this division, whenever the term "firefighter," "firefighting member," and "member of a fire department" is used, the term shall include, but shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 3211.9
    "Disaster council" means a public agency established by ordinance which is empowered to register and direct the activities of disaster service workers within the area...
  • California Labor Code Section 3211.91
    "Accredited disaster council" means a disaster council that is certified by the California Emergency Management Agency as conforming with the rules and regulations established by...
  • California Labor Code Section 3211.92
    (a) "Disaster service worker" means any natural person who is registered with an accredited disaster council or a state agency for the purpose of engaging...
  • California Labor Code Section 3211.93
    "Disaster service" means all activities authorized by and carried on pursuant to the California Emergency Services Act, including training necessary or proper to engage in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3211.93a
    "Disaster service" does not include any activities or functions performed by a person if the accredited disaster council with which that person is registered receives...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212
    In the case of members of a sheriff's office or the California Highway Patrol, district attorney's staff of inspectors and investigators or of police or...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.1
    (a) This section applies to all of the following: (1) Active firefighting members, whether volunteers, partly paid, or fully paid, of all of the following...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.2
    In the case of officers and employees in the Department of Corrections having custodial duties, each officer and employee in the Department of Youth Authority...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.3
    In the case of a peace officer who is designated under subdivision (a) of Section 2250.1 of the Vehicle Code and who has graduated from...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.4
    In the case of a member of a University of California fire department located at a campus or other facility administered by the Regents of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.5
    In the case of a member of a police department of a city or municipality, or a member of the State Highway Patrol, when any...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.6
    In the case of a member of a police department of a city or county, or a member of the sheriff's office of a county,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.7
    In the case of an employee in the Department of Justice falling within the "state safety" class, when any such individual is employed under civil...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.8
    (a) In the case of members of a sheriff's office, of police or fire departments of cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, or other public...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.85
    (a) This section applies to peace officers described in Sections 830.1 to 830.5, inclusive, of the Penal Code, and members of a fire department. (b)...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.9
    In the case of a member of a police department of a city, county, or city and county, or a member of the sheriff's office...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.10
    In the case of a peace officer of the Department of Corrections who has custodial or supervisory duties of inmates or parolees, or a peace...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.11
    This section applies to both of the following: (a) active lifeguards employed by a city, county, city and county, district, or other public or municipal...
  • California Labor Code Section 3212.12
    (a) This section applies to peace officers, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 830.1 of the Penal Code, subdivisions (e), (f), and (g) of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3213
    In the case of a member of the University of California Police Department who has graduated from an academy certified by the Commission on Peace...
  • California Labor Code Section 3213.2
    (a) In the case of a member of a police department of a city, county, or city and county, or a member of the sheriff's...
  • California Labor Code Section 3214
    (a) The Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority shall, in conjunction with all recognized employee representative associations, develop policy and implement...
  • California Labor Code Section 3215
    Except as otherwise permitted by law, any person acting individually or through his or her employees or agents, who offers, delivers, receives, or accepts any...
  • California Labor Code Section 3217
    (a) Section 3215 shall not be construed to prevent the recommendation of professional employment where that recommendation is not prohibited by the Rules of Professional...
  • California Labor Code Section 3218
    A violation of Section 3215 is a public offense punishable upon a first conviction by incarceration in the county jail for not more than one...
  • California Labor Code Section 3219
    (a) (1) Except as otherwise permitted by law, any person acting individually or through his or her employees or agents, who offers or delivers any...
  • California Labor Code Section 3300
    As used in this division, "employer" means: (a) The State and every State agency. (b) Each county, city, district, and all public and quasi public...
  • California Labor Code Section 3301
    As used in this division, "employer" excludes the following: (a) Any person while acting solely as the sponsor of a bowling team. (b) Any private,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3302
    (a) (1) When a licensed contractor enters an agreement with a temporary employment agency, employment referral service, labor contractor, or other similar entity for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3350
    Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms and phrases used in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3351
    "Employee" means every person in the service of an employer under any appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3351.5
    "Employee" includes: (a) Any person whose employment training is arranged by the State Department of Rehabilitation with any employer. Such person shall be deemed an...
  • California Labor Code Section 3352
    "Employee" excludes the following: (a) Any person defined in subdivision (d) of Section 3351 who is employed by his or her parent, spouse, or child....
  • California Labor Code Section 3352.94
    "Employee" excludes a disaster service worker while performing services as a disaster service worker except as provided in Chapter 10 of this part. "Employee" excludes...
  • California Labor Code Section 3353
    "Independent contractor" means any person who renders service for a specified recompense for a specified result, under the control of his principal as to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3354
    Employers of employees defined by subdivision (d) of Section 3351 shall not be subject to the provisions of Sections 3710, 3710.1, 3710.2, 3711, 3712, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 3355
    As used in subdivision (d) of Section 3351, the term "course of trade, business, profession, or occupation" includes all services tending toward the preservation, maintenance,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3356
    As used in subdivision (d) of Section 3351 and in Section 3355, the term "trade, business, profession, or occupation" includes any undertaking actually engaged in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3357
    Any person rendering service for another, other than as an independent contractor, or unless expressly excluded herein, is presumed to be an employee.
  • California Labor Code Section 3358
    Watchmen for nonindustrial establishments, paid by subscription by several persons, are not employees under this division. In other cases where watchmen, paid by subscription by...
  • California Labor Code Section 3360
    Workmen associating themselves under a partnership agreement, the principal purpose of which is the performance of the labor on a particular piece of work are...
  • California Labor Code Section 3361
    Each member registered as an active firefighting member of any regularly organized volunteer fire department, having official recognition, and full or partial support of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3361.5
    Notwithstanding Section 3351, a volunteer, unsalaried person authorized by the governing board of a recreation and park district to perform volunteer services for the district...
  • California Labor Code Section 3362
    Each male or female member registered as an active policeman or policewoman of any regularly organized police department having official recognition and full or partial...
  • California Labor Code Section 3362.5
    Whenever any qualified person is deputized or appointed by the proper authority as a reserve or auxiliary sheriff or city police officer, a deputy sheriff,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3363
    Each member registered with the Department of Fish and Game as an active member of the reserve fish and game warden program of the department...
  • California Labor Code Section 3363.5
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3351, 3352, and 3357, a person who performs voluntary service without pay for a public agency, as designated and authorized by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3363.6
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3351, 3352, and 3357, a person who performs voluntary service without pay for a private, nonprofit organization, as designated and authorized by...
  • California Labor Code Section 3364
    Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 3352, a volunteer, unsalaried member of a sheriff's reserve in any county who is not deemed an employee of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3364.5
    Notwithstanding Section 3351 of the Labor Code, a volunteer, unsalaried person authorized by the governing board of a school district or the county superintendent of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3364.55
    A ward of the juvenile court engaged in rehabilitative work without pay, under an assignment by order of the juvenile court to a work project...
  • California Labor Code Section 3364.6
    Notwithstanding Sections 3351 and 3352, juvenile traffic offenders pursuant to Section 564 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, or juvenile probationers pursuant to subdivision (a)...
  • California Labor Code Section 3364.7
    Notwithstanding Sections 3351 and 3352, a ward of the juvenile court committed to a regional youth educational facility pursuant to Article 24.5 (commencing with Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 3365
    For the purposes of this division: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), each person engaged in suppressing a fire pursuant to Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 3366
    (a) For the purposes of this division, each person engaged in the performance of active law enforcement service as part of the posse comitatus or...
  • California Labor Code Section 3367
    (a) For purposes of this division any person voluntarily rendering technical assistance to a public entity to prevent a fire, explosion, or other hazardous occurrence,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3368
    Notwithstanding any provision of this code or the Education Code to the contrary, the school district, county superintendent of schools, or any school administered by...
  • California Labor Code Section 3369
    The inclusion of any person or groups of persons within the coverage of this division shall not cause any such person or group of persons...
  • California Labor Code Section 3370
    (a) Each inmate of a state penal or correctional institution shall be entitled to the workers' compensation benefits provided by this division for injury arising...
  • California Labor Code Section 3371
    If the issues are complex or if the inmate applicant requests, the Department of Corrections shall furnish a list of qualified workers' compensation attorneys to...
  • California Labor Code Section 3501
    (a) A child under the age of 18 years, or a child of any age found by any trier of fact, whether contractual, administrative, regulatory,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3502
    In all other cases, questions of entire or partial dependency and questions as to who are dependents and the extent of their dependency shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 3503
    No person is a dependent of any deceased employee unless in good faith a member of the family or household of the employee, or unless...
  • California Labor Code Section 3550
    (a) Every employer subject to the compensation provisions of this division shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous location frequented by employees, and where...
  • California Labor Code Section 3551
    (a) Every employer subject to the compensation provisions of this code, except employers of employees defined in subdivision (d) of Section 3351, shall give every...
  • California Labor Code Section 3553
    Every employer subject to the compensation provisions of this code shall give any employee who is a victim of a crime that occurred at the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600
    (a) Liability for the compensation provided by this division, in lieu of any other liability whatsoever to any person except as otherwise specifically provided in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600.1
    (a) Whenever any firefighter of the state, as defined in Section 19886 of the Government Code, is injured, dies, or is disabled from performing his...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600.2
    (a) Whenever any peace officer, as defined in Section 50920 of the Government Code, is injured, dies, or is disabled from performing his duties as...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600.3
    (a) For the purposes of Section 3600, an off-duty peace officer, as defined in subdivision (b), who is performing, within the jurisdiction of his or...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600.4
    (a) Whenever any firefighter of a city, county, city and county, district, or other public or municipal corporation or political subdivision, or any firefighter employed...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600.5
    (a) If an employee who has been hired or is regularly employed in the state receives personal injury by accident arising out of and in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600.6
    Disaster service workers registered by a disaster council while performing services under the general direction of the disaster council shall be entitled to all of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3600.8
    (a) No employee who voluntarily participates in an alternative commute program that is sponsored or mandated by a governmental entity shall be considered to be...
  • California Labor Code Section 3601
    (a) Where the conditions of compensation set forth in Section 3600 concur, the right to recover such compensation, pursuant to the provisions of this division...
  • California Labor Code Section 3602
    (a) Where the conditions of compensation set forth in Section 3600 concur, the right to recover compensation is, except as specifically provided in this section...
  • California Labor Code Section 3603
    Payment of compensation in accordance with the order and direction of the appeals board shall discharge the employer from all claims therefor.
  • California Labor Code Section 3604
    It is not a defense to the State, any county, city, district or institution thereof, or any public or quasi-public corporation, that a person injured...
  • California Labor Code Section 3605
    The compensation due an injured minor may be paid to him until his parent or guardian gives the employer or the latter's compensation insurance carrier...
  • California Labor Code Section 3700
    Every employer except the state shall secure the payment of compensation in one or more of the following ways: (a) By being insured against liability...
  • California Labor Code Section 3700.1
    As used in this article: (a) "Director" means the Director of Industrial Relations. (b) "Private self-insurer" means a private employer which has secured the payment...
  • California Labor Code Section 3700.5
    (a) The failure to secure the payment of compensation as required by this article by one who knew, or because of his or her knowledge...
  • California Labor Code Section 3701
    (a) Each year every private self-insuring employer shall secure incurred liabilities for the payment of compensation and the performance of the obligations of employers imposed...
  • California Labor Code Section 3701.3
    The director shall return to a private self-insured employer all individual security determined, with the consent of the Self-Insurers' Security Fund, to be in excess...
  • California Labor Code Section 3701.5
    (a) If the director determines that a private self-insured employer has failed to pay workers' compensation as required by this division, the security deposit shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 3701.7
    Where any employer requesting coverage under a new or existing certificate of consent to self-insure has had a period of unlawful uninsurance, either for an...
  • California Labor Code Section 3701.8
    (a) As an alternative to each private self-insuring employer securing its own incurred liabilities as provided in Section 3701, the director may provide by regulation...
  • California Labor Code Section 3701.9
    (a) A certificate of consent to self-insure shall not be issued after January 1, 2013, to any of the following: (1) A professional employer organization....
  • California Labor Code Section 3702
    (a) A certificate of consent to self-insure may be revoked by the director at any time for good cause after a hearing. Good cause includes,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.1
    (a) No person, firm, or corporation, other than an insurer admitted to transact workers' compensation insurance in this state, shall contract to administer claims of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.2
    (a) All self-insured employers shall file a self-insurer's annual report in a form prescribed by the director. Public self-insured employers shall provide detailed information as...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.3
    Failure to submit reports or information as deemed necessary by the director to implement the purposes of Section 3701, 3702, or 3702.2 may result in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.4
    (a) The Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation shall conduct an examination of the public self-insured program and publish, on its Internet Web...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.5
    (a) (1) The cost of administration of the public self-insured program by the Director of Industrial Relations shall be borne by the Workers' Compensation Administration...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.6
    (a) The director shall establish an audit program addressing the adequacy of estimates of future liability of claims for all private self-insured employers, and shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.7
    A certificate of consent to administer claims of self-insured employers may be revoked by the director at any time for good cause after a hearing....
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.8
    (a) Employers who have ceased to be self-insured employers shall discharge their continuing obligations to secure the payment of workers' compensation that accrued during the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.9
    (a) In addition to remedies and penalties otherwise provided for a failure to secure the payment of compensation, the director may, after a determination that...
  • California Labor Code Section 3702.10
    The director, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, may...
  • California Labor Code Section 3703
    So long as the certificate has not been revoked, and the self-insurer maintains on deposit the requisite bond or securities, the self-insurer shall not be...
  • California Labor Code Section 3705
    The Self-Insurers' Security Fund or the surety making payment of compensation hereunder shall have the same preference over the other debts of the principal or...
  • California Labor Code Section 3706
    If any employer fails to secure the payment of compensation, any injured employee or his dependents may bring an action at law against such employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 3706.5
    The provisions of this article and Sections 4553, 4554, and 4555, and any other penalty provided by law for failure to secure the payment of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3707
    The injured employee or his dependents may in such action attach the property of the employer, at any time upon or after the institution of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3708
    In such action it is presumed that the injury to the employee was a direct result and grew out of the negligence of the employer,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3708.5
    If an employee brings such an action for damages, the employee shall forthwith give a copy of the complaint to the Uninsured Employers Fund of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3709
    If, as a result of such action for damages, a judgment is obtained against the employer, any compensation awarded, paid, or secured by the employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 3709.5
    After the payment of attorney's fees fixed by the court, the employer shall be relieved from the obligation to pay further compensation to or on...
  • California Labor Code Section 3710
    (a) The Director of Industrial Relations shall enforce the provisions of this article. The director may employ necessary investigators, clerks, and other employees, and make...
  • California Labor Code Section 3710.1
    Where an employer has failed to secure the payment of compensation as required by Section 3700, the director shall issue and serve on such employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 3710.2
    Failure of an employer, officer, or anyone having direction, management, or control of any place of employment or of employees to observe a stop order...
  • California Labor Code Section 3710.3
    Whenever a stop order has been issued pursuant to Section 3710.1 to a motor carrier of property subject to the jurisdiction and control of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3711
    The director, an investigator for the Department of Insurance Fraud Bureau or its successor, or a district attorney investigator assigned to investigate workers' compensation fraud...
  • California Labor Code Section 3712
    (a) The securing of the payment of compensation in a way provided in this division is essential to the functioning of the expressly declared social...
  • California Labor Code Section 3714
    (a) All cases involving the Uninsured Employers Fund or the Subsequent Injuries Fund as a party or involving death without dependents shall only be heard...
  • California Labor Code Section 3715
    (a) Any employee, except an employee as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 3351, whose employer has failed to secure the payment of compensation as...
  • California Labor Code Section 3716
    (a) If the employer fails to pay the compensation required by Section 3715 to the person entitled thereto, or fails to furnish the bond required...
  • California Labor Code Section 3716.1
    (a) In any hearing, investigation, or proceeding, the Attorney General, or attorneys of the Department of Industrial Relations, shall represent the director and the state....
  • California Labor Code Section 3716.2
    Notwithstanding the precise elements of an award of compensation benefits, and notwithstanding the claim and demand for payment being made therefor to the director, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3716.3
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when the director obtains a judgment against an uninsured employer, the director may, in addition...
  • California Labor Code Section 3716.4
    Whenever a final judgment has been entered against a motor carrier of property subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Department of Motor Vehicles...
  • California Labor Code Section 3716.5
    In the payment of workers' compensation benefits from the Uninsured Employers Fund, the director shall do the following: (a) Designate the job classifications of employees...
  • California Labor Code Section 3717
    (a) A findings and award that is the subject of a demand on the Uninsured Employers Fund or an approved compromise and release or stipulated...
  • California Labor Code Section 3717.1
    In any claim in which an alleged uninsured employer is a corporation, the director may cause substantial shareholders and parents, as defined by Section 3717,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3717.2
    Upon request of the director, the appeals board shall make findings of whether persons are substantial shareholders or parents, as defined in Section 3717. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 3718
    The cause of action provided in Section 3717 and any cause of action arising out of Section 3722 may be joined in one action against...
  • California Labor Code Section 3719
    Any suit, action, proceeding, or award brought or made against any employer under Section 3717 may be compromised by the director, or such suit, action,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3720
    (a) When the appeals board or the director determines under Section 3715 or 3716 that an employer has not secured the payment of compensation as...
  • California Labor Code Section 3720.1
    (a) In any claim in which the alleged uninsured employer is a corporation, for purposes of filing certificates of lien pursuant to Section 3720, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3721
    The director shall provide the employer with a certificate of cancellation of lien after the employer has paid to the claimant or to the Uninsured...
  • California Labor Code Section 3722
    (a) At the time the stop order is issued and served pursuant to Section 3710.1, the director shall also issue and serve a penalty assessment...
  • California Labor Code Section 3725
    If an employer desires to contest a penalty assessment order, the employer shall file with the director a written request for a hearing within 15...
  • California Labor Code Section 3726
    (a) When no petition objecting to a penalty assessment order is filed, a certified copy of the order may be filed by the director in...
  • California Labor Code Section 3727
    If the director determines pursuant to Section 3722 that an employer has failed to secure the payment of compensation as required by this division, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3727.1
    The director may withdraw a stop order or a penalty assessment order where investigation reveals the employer had secured the payment of compensation as required...
  • California Labor Code Section 3728
    (a) The director may draw from the State Treasury out of the Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund for the purposes of Sections 3716 and 3716.1,...
  • California Labor Code Section 3730
    When the last day for filing any instrument or other document pursuant to this chapter falls upon a Saturday, Sunday or other holiday, such act...
  • California Labor Code Section 3731
    Any stop order or penalty assessment order may be personally served upon the employer either by (1) manual delivery of the order to the employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 3732
    (a) If compensation is paid or becomes payable from the Uninsured Employers Fund, whether as a result of a findings and award, award based upon...
  • California Labor Code Section 3740
    It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article and Article 1 (commencing with Section 3700) to provide for the continuation of workers'...
  • California Labor Code Section 3741
    As used in this article: (a) "Director" means the Director of Industrial Relations. (b) "Private self-insurer" means a private employer which has secured the payment...
  • California Labor Code Section 3742
    (a) The Self-Insurers' Security Fund shall be established as a Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 7110) of Division 2...
  • California Labor Code Section 3743
    (a) Upon order of the director pursuant to Section 3701.5, the fund shall assume the workers' compensation obligations of an insolvent self-insurer. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision...
  • California Labor Code Section 3744
    (a) (1) The fund shall have the right and obligation to obtain reimbursement from an insolvent self-insurer up to the amount of the self-insurer's workers'...
  • California Labor Code Section 3745
    (a) The fund shall maintain cash, readily marketable securities, or other assets, or a line of credit, approved by the director, sufficient to immediately continue...
  • California Labor Code Section 3746
    The fund shall annually contract for an independent certified audit of the financial activities of the fund. An annual report on the financial status of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3747
    This article shall be known and may be referred to as the "Young-La Follette Self-Insurers' Security Act."
  • California Labor Code Section 3750
    Nothing in this division shall affect: (a) The organization of any mutual or other insurer. (b) Any existing contract for insurance. (c) The right of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3751
    (a) No employer shall exact or receive from any employee any contribution, or make or take any deduction from the earnings of any employee, either...
  • California Labor Code Section 3752
    Liability for compensation shall not be reduced or affected by any insurance, contribution or other benefit whatsoever due to or received by the person entitled...
  • California Labor Code Section 3753
    The person entitled to compensation may, irrespective of any insurance or other contract, except as otherwise provided in this division, recover such compensation directly from...
  • California Labor Code Section 3754
    Except as provided in paragraph (12) of subdivision (f) of Section 1202.4 of the Penal Code, payment, in whole or in part, of compensation by...
  • California Labor Code Section 3755
    If the employer is insured against liability for compensation, and if after the suffering of any injury the insurer causes to be served upon any...
  • California Labor Code Section 3756
    If at the time of the suffering of a compensable injury, the employer is insured against liability for the full amount of compensation payable, he...
  • California Labor Code Section 3757
    If it thereafter appears to the satisfaction of the appeals board that the insurer has assumed the liability for compensation, the employer shall thereupon be...
  • California Labor Code Section 3758
    A proceeding to obtain compensation shall not abate on account of substitution of the insurer in place of the employer and on account of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3759
    The appeals board may enter its order relieving the employer from liability where it appears from the pleadings, stipulations, or proof that an insurer joined...
  • California Labor Code Section 3760
    Every employer who is insured against any liability imposed by this division shall file with the insurer a complete report of every injury to each...
  • California Labor Code Section 3761
    (a) An insurer securing an employer's liability under this division shall notify the employer, within 15 days, of each claim for indemnity filed against the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3762
    (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the insurer shall discuss all elements of the claim file that affect the employer's premium with...
  • California Labor Code Section 3800
    (a) Every county or city which requires the issuance of a permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, demolition, or repair of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3820
    (a) In enacting this section, the Legislature declares that there exists a compelling interest in eliminating fraud in the workers' compensation system. The Legislature recognizes...
  • California Labor Code Section 3822
    The administrative director shall, on an annual basis, provide to every employer, claims adjuster, third party administrator, physician, and attorney who participates in the workers'...
  • California Labor Code Section 3823
    (a) The administrative director shall, in coordination with the Bureau of Fraudulent Claims of the Department of Insurance, the Medi-Cal Fraud Task Force, and the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3850
    As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee" includes the person injured and any other person to whom a claim accrues by reason of the injury...
  • California Labor Code Section 3851
    The death of the employee or of any other person, does not abate any right of action established by this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 3852
    The claim of an employee, including, but not limited to, any peace officer or firefighter, for compensation does not affect his or her claim or...
  • California Labor Code Section 3853
    If either the employee or the employer brings an action against such third person, he shall forthwith give to the other a copy of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 3854
    If the action is prosecuted by the employer alone, evidence of any amount which the employer has paid or become obligated to pay by reason...
  • California Labor Code Section 3855
    If the employee joins in or prosecutes such action, either the evidence of the amount of disability indemnity or death benefit paid or to be...
  • California Labor Code Section 3856
    In the event of suit against such third party: (a) If the action is prosecuted by the employer alone, the court shall first order paid...
  • California Labor Code Section 3857
    The court shall, upon further application at any time before the judgment is satisfied, allow as a further lien the amount of any expenditures of...
  • California Labor Code Section 3858
    After payment of litigation expenses and attorneys' fees fixed by the court pursuant to Section 3856 and payment of the employer's lien, the employer shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 3859
    (a) No release or settlement of any claim under this chapter as to either the employee or the employer is valid without the written consent...
  • California Labor Code Section 3860
    (a) No release or settlement under this chapter, with or without suit, is valid or binding as to any party thereto without notice to both...
  • California Labor Code Section 3861
    The appeals board is empowered to and shall allow, as a credit to the employer to be applied against his liability for compensation, such amount...
  • California Labor Code Section 3862
    Any employer entitled to and who has been allowed and has perfected a lien upon the judgment or award in favor of an employee against...
  • California Labor Code Section 3864
    If an action as provided in this chapter prosecuted by the employee, the employer, or both jointly against the third person results in judgment against...
  • California Labor Code Section 3865
    Any judgment or settlement of an action as provided for in this chapter is, upon notice to the court, subject to the same lien claims...
  • California Labor Code Section 4050
    Whenever the right to compensation under this division exists in favor of an employee, he shall, upon the written request of his employer, submit at...
  • California Labor Code Section 4051
    The request or order for the medical examination shall fix a time and place therefor, due consideration being given to the convenience of the employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 4052
    The employee may employ at his own expense a physician, to be present at any examination required by his employer.
  • California Labor Code Section 4053
    So long as the employee, after written request of the employer, fails or refuses to submit to such examination or in any way obstructs it,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4054
    If the employee fails or refuses to submit to examination after direction by the appeals board, or a referee thereof, or in any way obstructs...
  • California Labor Code Section 4055
    Any physician who makes or is present at any such examination may be required to report or testify as to the results thereof.
  • California Labor Code Section 4055.2
    Any party who subpoenas records in any proceeding under this division shall concurrent with service of the subpoena upon the person who has possession of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4056
    No compensation is payable in case of the death or disability of an employee when his death is caused, or when and so far as...
  • California Labor Code Section 4060
    (a) This section shall apply to disputes over the compensability of any injury. This section shall not apply where injury to any part or parts...
  • California Labor Code Section 4061
    This section shall not apply to the employee's dispute of a utilization review decision under Section 4610, nor to the employee's dispute of the medical...
  • California Labor Code Section 4061.5
    The treating physician primarily responsible for managing the care of the injured worker or the physician designated by that treating physician shall, in accordance with...
  • California Labor Code Section 4062
    (a) If either the employee or employer objects to a medical determination made by the treating physician concerning any medical issues not covered by Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 4062.1
    (a) If an employee is not represented by an attorney, the employer shall not seek agreement with the employee on an agreed medical evaluator, nor...
  • California Labor Code Section 4062.2
    (a) Whenever a comprehensive medical evaluation is required to resolve any dispute arising out of an injury or a claimed injury occurring on or after...
  • California Labor Code Section 4062.3
    (a) Any party may provide to the qualified medical evaluator selected from a panel any of the following information: (1) Records prepared or maintained by...
  • California Labor Code Section 4062.5
    If a qualified medical evaluator selected from a panel fails to complete the formal medical evaluation within the timeframes established by the administrative director pursuant...
  • California Labor Code Section 4062.8
    The administrative director shall develop, not later than January 1, 2004, and periodically revise as necessary thereafter, educational materials to be used to provide treating...
  • California Labor Code Section 4063
    If a formal medical evaluation from an agreed medical evaluator or a qualified medical evaluator selected from a three member panel resolves any issue so...
  • California Labor Code Section 4064
    (a) The employer shall be liable for the cost of each reasonable and necessary comprehensive medical-legal evaluation obtained by the employee pursuant to Sections 4060,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4067
    If the jurisdiction of the appeals board is invoked pursuant to Section 5803 upon the grounds that the effects of the injury have recurred, increased,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4067.5
    This article shall become operative for injuries occurring on and after January 1, 1991.
  • California Labor Code Section 4068
    (a) Upon determining that a treating physician's report contains opinions that are the result of conjecture, are not supported by adequate evidence, or that indicate...
  • California Labor Code Section 4150
    When an employer has in his employment any person not included within the term "employee" as defined by Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Part...
  • California Labor Code Section 4151
    Election on the part of the employer shall be made in one of the following ways: (a) By insuring against liability for compensation, in which...
  • California Labor Code Section 4152
    The statement, when filed, shall operate, within the meaning of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 3600), to subject him or her to the compensation provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 4153
    Such statement of acceptance includes persons whose employment is both casual and not in the course of the trade, business, profession, or occupation of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4154
    Where any employer has made an election in either of the modes above prescribed, any person in his service is deemed to have accepted the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4155
    The State and each county, city, district, and public agency thereof and all State institutions are conclusively presumed to have elected to come within the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4156
    No liability for compensation shall attach to any employer of a person excluded by subdivision (h) of Section 3352 from the definition of "employee" for...
  • California Labor Code Section 4157
    Where any employer has made an election pursuant to this chapter to include under the compensation provisions of this division an independent contractor engaged in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4201
    It is the intent of this chapter to apply to all enrollees in economic opportunity programs, including, but not limited to, work training or work...
  • California Labor Code Section 4202
    "Economic Opportunity Program" means any program adopted pursuant to Public Law 88-452, including, but not limited to, work training and work study.
  • California Labor Code Section 4203
    "Enrollee" means any person enrolled in an economic opportunity program.
  • California Labor Code Section 4204
    "Sponsoring agency" means any agency, entity, or institution, public or private, receiving grants or financial assistance, either directly or as a subcontractor, pursuant to Public...
  • California Labor Code Section 4205
    "Participating agency" means any agency, entity or institution, public or private, taking part in an economic opportunity program, other than a sponsoring agency.
  • California Labor Code Section 4206
    Except as provided in this chapter, an enrollee within a given economic opportunity program shall have no right to receive compensation from sponsoring or participating...
  • California Labor Code Section 4207
    Compensation shall be furnished an enrollee for injury or to dependents if injury causes death, suffered within or without the state occurring in the course...
  • California Labor Code Section 4208
    Where the conditions of compensation exist, the right to recover such compensation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter is the exclusive remedy for injury...
  • California Labor Code Section 4209
    Insofar as not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, all of the provisions of this division shall pertain to enrollees and their dependents and...
  • California Labor Code Section 4211
    Where liability for compensation exists, such compensation shall be provided as limited by this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 4212
    If an enrollee suffers injury or death in the performance of his duties under an economic opportunity program, then, irrespective of his remuneration from this...
  • California Labor Code Section 4213
    If the injury sustained by an enrollee causes permanent disability, the percentage of disability to total disability shall be determined for the occupation of a...
  • California Labor Code Section 4214
    In addition to death benefit in the event of fatal injury, the reasonable expenses of the enrollee's burial shall be paid not to exceed six...
  • California Labor Code Section 4226
    Should the United States government or any agent thereof, pursuant to federal statute, rule or regulations furnish benefits to enrollees or dependents of enrollees under...
  • California Labor Code Section 4227
    If the United States government or any agent thereof furnishes medical treatment to an injured enrollee, the enrollee will have no right to receive the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4228
    If the furnishing of medical treatment by the United States government or its agent takes the form of reimbursement of the enrollee, he shall have...
  • California Labor Code Section 4229
    If the furnishing of compensation benefits to an enrollee or his dependents under this chapter prevents such enrollee or his dependents from receiving benefits under...
  • California Labor Code Section 4350
    The California Emergency Management Agency shall administer this chapter as it relates to volunteer disaster service workers.
  • California Labor Code Section 4351
    Compensation provided by this division is the exclusive remedy of a disaster service worker, or his or her dependents, for injury or death arising out...
  • California Labor Code Section 4352
    (a) No compensation shall be paid or furnished to a disaster service worker or a dependent of a disaster service worker pursuant to this division...
  • California Labor Code Section 4353
    If a disaster service worker suffers injury or death while in the performance of duties as a disaster service worker, then, irrespective of his or...
  • California Labor Code Section 4354
    If the injury sustained by a disaster service worker causes permanent disability, the percentage of disability to total disability shall be determined as for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4355
    (a) Should the United States Government or any agent thereof, in accordance with any federal statute, rule, or regulation, furnish monetary assistance, benefits, or other...
  • California Labor Code Section 4401
    It is the declared policy of the state that qualified injured workers with asbestosis which arises out of and occurs in the course of employment...
  • California Labor Code Section 4402
    (a) "Asbestosis" means any pathology, whether or not combined with preexisting pathology, which results in disability or need for medical treatment from inhalation of asbestos...
  • California Labor Code Section 4403
    The Asbestos Workers' Account is hereby created in the Uninsured Employers Fund in the State Treasury, and shall be administered by the Director of Industrial...
  • California Labor Code Section 4404
    Insofar as not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, all of the provisions of this division shall pertain to asbestos workers and their dependents...
  • California Labor Code Section 4405
    Where the conditions of compensation exist under this division the right to recover workers' compensation asbestos workers' benefits pursuant to the provisions of this chapter...
  • California Labor Code Section 4406
    (a) Payments as advances on workers' compensation asbestos workers' benefits shall be furnished an asbestos worker for injury resulting in asbestosis, or the dependents of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4407
    When the account determines that the conditions in Section 4406 have occurred, payments as advances on workers' compensation asbestos workers' benefits shall be provided in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4407.3
    For purposes of this chapter, the death benefit shall be paid in installments in the same manner and amounts as temporary disability indemnity.
  • California Labor Code Section 4407.5
    Benefits provided by this chapter shall not be commuted into a lump-sum payment.
  • California Labor Code Section 4408
    Prior to seeking compensation benefits under this chapter, the asbestos worker shall first make claim on the employer or its workers' compensation insurance carrier for...
  • California Labor Code Section 4409
    The Director of Industrial Relations, or his or her representative, shall assign investigative and claims adjustment services respecting matters concerning Asbestos Workers' Account cases. Those...
  • California Labor Code Section 4409.5
    The administrative director shall appoint workers' compensation judges and support staff who shall give priority to the processing of the claims of asbestos workers.
  • California Labor Code Section 4410
    The administrative director shall appoint at least two information and assistance officers who shall give priority to assisting asbestos workers pursuant to the provisions of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4411
    (a) When a claim is made against the Asbestos Workers' Account, the account shall secure appropriate information, adjust the claim, and pay benefits provided by...
  • California Labor Code Section 4412
    The Asbestos Workers' Account shall take all reasonable and appropriate action to insure that recovery is made by the account for all moneys paid as...
  • California Labor Code Section 4413
    No limitation of time provided by this division shall run against the Asbestos Workers' Account to initiate proceedings before the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board when...
  • California Labor Code Section 4414
    Immediately following the receipt of knowledge of initiation of proceedings before the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, or any other jurisdiction providing benefits for the same...
  • California Labor Code Section 4415
    In any hearing or proceeding, the Director of Industrial Relations may use attorneys from within the department, or the Attorney General, to represent the director...
  • California Labor Code Section 4416
    Once an agreement as to the responsible employer is reached, or a decision is issued by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and becomes final, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4417
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preclude the filing by an asbestos worker of a claim or suit for damages or indemnity against...
  • California Labor Code Section 4418
    The provisions of this chapter providing for the payment of workers' compensation asbestos workers' benefits from the Asbestos Workers' Account shall be operative only until...
  • California Labor Code Section 4451
    Average annual earnings shall be taken as fifty-two times the average weekly earnings referred to in this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 4452
    Four times the average annual earnings shall be taken at not less than four thousand eight hundred dollars and sixty-four cents ($4,800.64) nor more than...
  • California Labor Code Section 4452.5
    As used in this division: (a) "Permanent total disability" means a permanent disability with a rating of 100 percent permanent disability only. (b) "Permanent partial...
  • California Labor Code Section 4453
    (a) In computing average annual earnings for the purposes of temporary disability indemnity and permanent total disability indemnity only, the average weekly earnings shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 4453.5
    Benefits payable on account of an injury shall not be affected by a subsequent statutory change in amounts of indemnity payable under this division, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 4454
    In determining average weekly earnings within the limits fixed in Section 4453, there shall be included overtime and the market value of board, lodging, fuel,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4455
    If the injured employee is under 18 years of age, and his or her incapacity is permanent, his or her average weekly earnings shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 4456
    Where any employee is injured while engaged on any unemployment work relief program conducted by the State, or a political subdivision, or any State or...
  • California Labor Code Section 4457
    In the event the average weekly earnings of workmen associating themselves under a partnership agreement, the principal purpose of which is the performance of labor...
  • California Labor Code Section 4458
    If a member registered as an active firefighting member of any regularly organized volunteer fire department as described in Section 3361 suffers injury or death...
  • California Labor Code Section 4458.2
    If an active peace officer of any department as described in Section 3362 suffers injury or death while in the performance of his or her...
  • California Labor Code Section 4458.5
    If a member suffers "an injury" following termination of active service, and within the time prescribed in Section 3212, 3212.2, 3212.3, 3212.4, 3212.5, 3212.6, 3212.7,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4459
    The fact that an employee has suffered a previous disability, or received compensation therefor, does not preclude him from compensation for a later injury, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 4550
    Where liability for compensation exists under this division, such compensation shall be furnished or paid by the employer and shall be as provided in this
  • California Labor Code Section 4551
    Where the injury is caused by the serious and willful misconduct of the injured employee, the compensation otherwise recoverable therefor shall be reduced one-half, except:...
  • California Labor Code Section 4552
    The reduction of compensation because of the serious and willful misconduct of an employee is not enforceable, valid, or binding in any respect until the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4553
    The amount of compensation otherwise recoverable shall be increased one-half, together with costs and expenses not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250), where the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4553.1
    In order to support a holding of serious and willful misconduct by an employer based upon violation of a safety order, the appeals board must...
  • California Labor Code Section 4554
    In case of the willful failure by an employer to secure the payment of compensation, the amount of compensation otherwise recoverable for injury or death...
  • California Labor Code Section 4555
    In case of failure by an employer to secure the payment of compensation, the appeals board may award a reasonable attorney's fee in addition to...
  • California Labor Code Section 4555.5
    Whenever a petition to reduce an award, based upon a permanent disability rating which has become final, is denied, the appeals board may order the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4556
    The increases provided for by this article shall not be limited by the provisions of Chapter 1 of this part relating to maximum amounts in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4557
    Where the injury is to an employee under 16 years of age and illegally employed at the time of injury, the entire compensation otherwise recoverable...
  • California Labor Code Section 4558
    (a) As used in this section: (1) "Employer" means a named identifiable person who is, prior to the time of the employee's injury or death,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600
    (a) Medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment, including nursing, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, crutches, and apparatuses, including orthotic and prosthetic devices and services,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.1
    (a) Subject to subdivision (b), any person or entity that dispenses medicines and medical supplies, as required by Section 4600, shall dispense the generic drug...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.2
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 4600, when a self-insured employer, group of self-insured employers, insurer of an employer, or group of insurers contracts with a pharmacy, group...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.3
    (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 4600, when a self-insured employer, group of self-insured employers, or the insurer of an employer contracts with a health care organization...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.35
    Any entity seeking to reimburse health care providers for health care services rendered to injured workers on a capitated, or per person per month basis,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.4
    (a) A workers' compensation insurer, third-party administrator, or other entity that requires, or pursuant to regulation requires, a treating physician to obtain either utilization review...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.5
    (a) Any health care service plan licensed pursuant to the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act, a disability insurer licensed by the Department of Insurance,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.6
    Any workers' compensation insurer, third-party administrator, or other entity seeking certification as a health care organization under subdivision (e) of Section 4600.5 shall be subject...
  • California Labor Code Section 4600.7
    (a) The Workers' Compensation Managed Care Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the administration of Sections 4600.3 and 4600.5 by the Division...
  • California Labor Code Section 4601
    (a) If the employee so requests, the employer shall tender the employee one change of physician. The employee at any time may request that the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4602
    If the employee so requests, the employer shall procure certification by either the administrative director or the appeals board as the case may be of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4603
    If the employer desires a change of physicians or chiropractor, he may petition the administrative director who, upon a showing of good cause by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4603.2
    (a) (1) Upon selecting a physician pursuant to Section 4600, the employee or physician shall notify the employer of the name and address, including the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4603.3
    (a) Upon payment, adjustment, or denial of a complete or incomplete itemization of medical services, an employer shall provide an explanation of review in the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4603.4
    (a) The administrative director shall adopt rules and regulations to do all of the following: (1) Ensure that all health care providers and facilities submit...
  • California Labor Code Section 4603.5
    The administrative director shall adopt rules pertaining to the format and content of notices required by this article; define reasonable geographic areas for the purposes...
  • California Labor Code Section 4603.6
    (a) If the only dispute is the amount of payment and the provider has received a second review that did not resolve the dispute, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4604
    Controversies between employer and employee arising under this chapter shall be determined by the appeals board, upon the request of either party, except as otherwise...
  • California Labor Code Section 4604.5
    (a) The recommended guidelines set forth in the medical treatment utilization schedule adopted by the administrative director pursuant to Section 5307.27 shall be presumptively correct...
  • California Labor Code Section 4605
    Nothing contained in this chapter shall limit the right of the employee to provide, at his or her own expense, a consulting physician or any...
  • California Labor Code Section 4606
    Any county, city and county, city, school district, or other public corporation within the state which was a self-insured employer under the "Workmen's Compensation, Insurance...
  • California Labor Code Section 4607
    Where a party to a proceeding institutes proceedings to terminate an award made by the appeals board to an applicant for continuing medical treatment and...
  • California Labor Code Section 4608
    No workers' compensation insurer, self-insured employer, or agent of an insurer or self-insured employer, shall refuse to pay pharmacy benefits solely because the claim form...
  • California Labor Code Section 4609
    (a) In order to prevent the improper selling, leasing, or transferring of a health care provider's contract, it is the intent of the Legislature that...
  • California Labor Code Section 4610
    (a) For purposes of this section, "utilization review" means utilization review or utilization management functions that prospectively, retrospectively, or concurrently review and approve, modify, delay,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4610.1
    An employee shall not be entitled to an increase in compensation under Section 5814 for unreasonable delay in the provision of medical treatment for periods...
  • California Labor Code Section 4610.3
    (a) Regardless of whether an employer has established a medical provider network pursuant to Section 4616 or entered into a contract with a health care...
  • California Labor Code Section 4610.5
    (a) This section applies to the following disputes: (1) Any dispute over a utilization review decision regarding treatment for an injury occurring on or after...
  • California Labor Code Section 4610.6
    (a) Upon receipt of a case pursuant to Section 4610.5, an independent medical review organization shall conduct the review in accordance with this article and...
  • California Labor Code Section 4611
    (a) When a contracting agent sells, leases, or transfers a health provider's contract to a payor, the rights and obligations of the provider shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 4614
    (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 5307.1, where the employee's individual or organizational provider of health care services rendered under this division and paid on a fee-for-service...
  • California Labor Code Section 4614.1
    Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 1345 of the Health and Safety Code, a health care service plan licensed pursuant to the Knox-Keene Health Care Service...
  • California Labor Code Section 4616
    (a) (1) On or after January 1, 2005, an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services may establish or modify a medical provider...
  • California Labor Code Section 4616.1
    (a) An insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services that offers a medical provider network under this division and that uses economic profiling...
  • California Labor Code Section 4616.2
    (a) An insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services that arranges for care for injured employees through a medical provider network shall file...
  • California Labor Code Section 4616.3
    (a) If the injured employee notifies the employer of the injury or files a claim for workers' compensation with the employer, the employer shall arrange...
  • California Labor Code Section 4616.4
    (a) (1) The administrative director shall contract with individual physicians, as described in paragraph (2), or an independent medical review organization to perform independent medical...
  • California Labor Code Section 4616.5
    For purposes of this article, "employer" means a self-insured employer, joint powers authority, or the state.
  • California Labor Code Section 4616.6
    No additional examinations shall be ordered by the appeals board and no other reports shall be admissable to resolve any controversy arising out of this
  • California Labor Code Section 4616.7
    (a) A health care organization certified pursuant to Section 4600.5 shall be deemed approved pursuant to this article if the requirements of this article are...
  • California Labor Code Section 4620
    (a) For purposes of this article, a medical-legal expense means any costs and expenses incurred by or on behalf of any party, the administrative director,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4621
    (a) In accordance with the rules of practice and procedure of the appeals board, the employee, or the dependents of a deceased employee, shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 4622
    All medical-legal expenses for which the employer is liable shall, upon receipt by the employer of all reports and documents required by the administrative director...
  • California Labor Code Section 4625
    (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 4628, all charges for medical-legal expenses for which the employer is liable that are not in excess of those...
  • California Labor Code Section 4626
    All charges for X-rays, laboratory services, and other diagnostic tests provided in connection with an industrial medical-legal evaluation shall be billed in accordance with the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4627
    The board and the administrative director may promulgate such reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary to interpret this article and compel compliance with...
  • California Labor Code Section 4628
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), no person, other than the physician who signs the medical-legal report, except a nurse performing those functions routinely...
  • California Labor Code Section 4650
    (a) If an injury causes temporary disability, the first payment of temporary disability indemnity shall be made not later than 14 days after knowledge of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4650.5
    Notwithstanding Section 4650, in the case of state civil service employees, employees of the Regents of the University of California, and employees of the Board...
  • California Labor Code Section 4651
    (a) No disability indemnity payment shall be made by any written instrument unless it is immediately negotiable and payable in cash, on demand, without discount...
  • California Labor Code Section 4651.1
    Where a petition is filed with the appeals board concerning a continuing award of such appeals board, in which it is alleged that the disability...
  • California Labor Code Section 4651.2
    No petitions filed under Section 4651.1 shall be granted while the injured workman is pursuing a rehabilitation plan under Section 139.5 of this code.
  • California Labor Code Section 4651.3
    Where a petition is filed with the appeals board pursuant to the provisions of Section 4651.1, and is subsequently denied wholly by the appeals board,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4652
    Except as otherwise provided by Section 4650.5, no temporary disability indemnity is recoverable for the disability suffered during the first three days after the employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 4653
    If the injury causes temporary total disability, the disability payment is two-thirds of the average weekly earnings during the period of such disability, consideration being...
  • California Labor Code Section 4654
    If the injury causes temporary partial disability, the disability payment is two-thirds of the weekly loss in wages during the period of such disability. However,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4655
    If the injury causes temporary disability which is at times total and at times partial, the weekly disability payment during the period of each total...
  • California Labor Code Section 4656
    (a) Aggregate disability payments for a single injury occurring prior to January 1, 1979, causing temporary disability shall not extend for more than 240 compensable...
  • California Labor Code Section 4657
    In case of temporary partial disability the weekly loss in wages shall consist of the difference between the average weekly earnings of the injured employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 4658
    (a) For injuries occurring prior to January 1, 1992, if the injury causes permanent disability, the percentage of disability to total disability shall be determined,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4658.1
    As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Regular work" means the employee's usual occupation or the position in which the employee was...
  • California Labor Code Section 4658.5
    (a) This section shall apply to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2013. (b) Except as provided in Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 4658.6
    The employer shall not be liable for the supplemental job displacement benefit pursuant to Section 4658.5 if the employer meets either of the following conditions:...
  • California Labor Code Section 4658.7
    (a) This section shall apply to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2013. (b) If the injury causes permanent partial disability, the injured employee...
  • California Labor Code Section 4659
    (a) If the permanent disability is at least 70 percent, but less than 100 percent, 1.5 percent of the average weekly earnings for each 1...
  • California Labor Code Section 4660
    This section shall only apply to injuries occurring before January 1, 2013. (a) In determining the percentages of permanent disability, account shall be taken of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4660.1
    This section shall apply to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2013. (a) In determining the percentages of permanent partial or permanent total disability,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4661
    Where an injury causes both temporary and permanent disability, the injured employee is entitled to compensation for any permanent disability sustained by him in addition...
  • California Labor Code Section 4661.5
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, when any temporary total disability indemnity payment is made two years or more from the date of injury,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4662
    Any of the following permanent disabilities shall be conclusively presumed to be total in character: (a) Loss of both eyes or the sight thereof. (b)...
  • California Labor Code Section 4663
    (a) Apportionment of permanent disability shall be based on causation. (b) Any physician who prepares a report addressing the issue of permanent disability due to...
  • California Labor Code Section 4664
    (a) The employer shall only be liable for the percentage of permanent disability directly caused by the injury arising out of and occurring in the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4700
    The death of an injured employee does not affect the liability of the employer under Articles 2 (commencing with Section 4600) and 3 (commencing with...
  • California Labor Code Section 4701
    If an injury causes death, either with or without disability, the employer shall be liable, in addition to any other benefits provided by this division,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4702
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Sections 4553, 4554, 4557, and 4558, and notwithstanding any amount of compensation paid or otherwise owing...
  • California Labor Code Section 4703
    Subject to the provisions of Section 4704, this section shall determine the right to a death benefit. If there is any person wholly dependent for...
  • California Labor Code Section 4703.5
    (a) In the case of one or more totally dependent minor children, as defined in Section 3501, after payment of the amount specified in Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 4703.6
    The provisions of Section 4703.5 shall also apply to a totally dependent minor child of a local safety member as defined in Article 4 (commencing...
  • California Labor Code Section 4704
    The appeals board may set apart or reassign the death benefit to any one or more of the dependents in accordance with their respective needs...
  • California Labor Code Section 4705
    The person to whom the death benefit is paid for the use of the several beneficiaries shall apply it in compliance with the findings and...
  • California Labor Code Section 4706
    (a) If a dependent beneficiary of any deceased employee dies and there is no surviving dependent, the payments of the death benefit accrued and payable...
  • California Labor Code Section 4706.5
    (a) Whenever any fatal injury is suffered by an employee under circumstances that would entitle the employee to compensation benefits, but for his or her...
  • California Labor Code Section 4707
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no benefits, except reasonable expenses of burial not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), shall be awarded under this...
  • California Labor Code Section 4708
    Upon application of any party in interest for a death benefit provided by this division on the death of an employee member of the Public...
  • California Labor Code Section 4709
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a dependent of a peace officer, as defined in Section 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, 830.34, 830.35, 830.36, 830.37,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4720
    As used in this article: (a) "Elected public official" means any person other than the President or Vice President of the United States who holds...
  • California Labor Code Section 4721
    The surviving spouse or dependent minor children of an elected public official who is killed by assassination shall be entitled to a special death benefit...
  • California Labor Code Section 4722
    If the deceased elected public official is survived by a spouse with or without dependent minor children, such special death benefit shall be payable to...
  • California Labor Code Section 4723
    The person or persons to whom the special death benefit is payable pursuant to Section 4722 shall, within one year of the date of death...
  • California Labor Code Section 4724
    The person or persons to whom the special death benefit is payable pursuant to Section 4722 shall file a claim therefor with the State Board...
  • California Labor Code Section 4725
    The State Compensation Insurance Fund shall be the disbursing agent for payments made pursuant to this article and shall receive a fee for its services...
  • California Labor Code Section 4726
    The State Board of Control and the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation shall jointly adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary...
  • California Labor Code Section 4727
    Any person who is convicted of any crime in connection with the assassination of an elected public official shall not be eligible for any benefits...
  • California Labor Code Section 4728
    (a) A dependent of an elected public official, who was intentionally killed while holding office, in retaliation for, or to prevent the performance of, an...
  • California Labor Code Section 4751
    If an employee who is permanently partially disabled receives a subsequent compensable injury resulting in additional permanent partial disability so that the degree of disability...
  • California Labor Code Section 4753
    Such additional compensation is not in addition to but shall be reduced to the extent of any monetary payments received by the employee, from any...
  • California Labor Code Section 4753.5
    In any hearing, investigation, or proceeding, the state shall be represented by the Attorney General, or the attorneys of the Department of Industrial Relations, as...
  • California Labor Code Section 4754
    The appeals board shall fix and award the amounts of special additional compensation to be paid under this article, and shall direct the State Compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 4754.5
    Nothing in this article shall impair the right of the Attorney General or the Department of Industrial Relations to release by compromise any claims brought...
  • California Labor Code Section 4755
    (a) The State Compensation Insurance Fund may draw from the State Treasury out of the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund for the purposes specified in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4800
    (a) Whenever any member of the Department of Justice falling within the "state peace officer/firefighter" class is disabled by injury arising out of and in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4800.5
    (a) Whenever any sworn member of the Department of the California Highway Patrol is disabled by a single injury, excluding disabilities that are the result...
  • California Labor Code Section 4801
    It shall be the duty of the appeals board to determine in the case of members of the California Highway Patrol, upon request of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4802
    Any such member of the California Highway Patrol or Department of Justice, or any such harbor policeman, so disabled is entitled from the date of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4803
    Whenever such disability of such member of the California Highway Patrol, or Department of Justice, or of such harbor policeman, continues for a period beyond...
  • California Labor Code Section 4804
    No disability indemnity shall be paid to said member of the California Highway Patrol or harbor policeman as temporary disability concurrently with wages or salary
  • California Labor Code Section 4804.1
    Whenever any member of a University of California fire department specified in Section 3212.4 falling within the active "firefighting and prevention service" class is disabled...
  • California Labor Code Section 4804.2
    It shall be the duty of the appeals board to determine in the case of members of a University of California fire department specified in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4804.3
    Any such member of a University of California fire department specified in Section 4804.1, so disabled is entitled from the date of injury and regardless...
  • California Labor Code Section 4804.4
    Whenever such disability of such member of a University of California fire department, specified in Section 4804.1, continues for a period beyond one year, such...
  • California Labor Code Section 4804.5
    No disability indemnity shall be paid to said member of a University of California fire department, specified in Section 4804.1, as temporary disability concurrently with...
  • California Labor Code Section 4806
    Whenever any member of the University of California Police Department falling within the "law enforcement" class is disabled by injury arising out of and in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4807
    It shall be the duty of the appeals board to determine, in the case of members of the University of California Police Department, upon the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4808
    Any such member of the University of California Police Department so disabled is entitled from the date of injury, and regardless of retirement under either...
  • California Labor Code Section 4809
    Whenever such disability of such member of the University of California Police Department continues for a period beyond one year, such member shall thereafter be...
  • California Labor Code Section 4810
    No disability indemnity shall be paid to such member of the University of California Police Department as temporary disability concurrently with wages or salary payments.
  • California Labor Code Section 4816
    Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement applicable to members of the California State University Police Department, whenever any member of that police department falling within...
  • California Labor Code Section 4817
    It shall be the duty of the appeals board to determine, in the case of members of the California State University Police Department, upon the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4819
    Whenever the disability of a member of the California State University Police Department continues for a period beyond one year, that member shall thereafter be...
  • California Labor Code Section 4820
    No disability indemnity shall be paid to a member of the California State University Police Department as temporary disability concurrently with wages or salary payments.
  • California Labor Code Section 4850
    (a) Whenever any person listed in subdivision (b), who is employed on a regular, full-time basis, and is disabled, whether temporarily or permanently, by injury...
  • California Labor Code Section 4850.3
    A city, county, special district, or harbor district that is a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System, is subject to the County Employees Retirement...
  • California Labor Code Section 4850.4
    (a) A city, county, special district, or harbor district that is a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System, is subject to the County Employees...
  • California Labor Code Section 4850.5
    Any firefighter employed by the County of San Luis Obispo, and the sheriff or any officer or employee of the sheriff's office of the County...
  • California Labor Code Section 4850.7
    (a) Any firefighter employed by a dependent or independent fire district may be entitled to the benefits of this article, if otherwise entitled to these...
  • California Labor Code Section 4851
    The governing body of any city, county, or city and county, in addition to anyone else properly entitled, including the Public Employees' Retirement System, may...
  • California Labor Code Section 4852
    The provisions of this article do not diminish or affect the right of any such officer or employee to the medical, surgical, and hospital benefits...
  • California Labor Code Section 4853
    Whenever such disability of any such officer or employee continues for a period beyond one year, such member shall thereafter be subject as to disability...
  • California Labor Code Section 4854
    No disability indemnity shall be paid to any such officer or employee concurrently with wages or salary payments.
  • California Labor Code Section 4855
    This article shall not be applicable to individuals who are appointed as reserve public safety employees and are deemed to be employees of a county,...
  • California Labor Code Section 4856
    (a) Whenever any local employee who is a firefighter, or peace officer as described in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of...
  • California Labor Code Section 4900
    No claim for compensation, except as provided in Section 96, is assignable before payment, but this provision does not affect the survival thereof.
  • California Labor Code Section 4901
    No claim for compensation nor compensation awarded, adjudged, or paid, is subject to be taken for the debts of the party entitled to such compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 4902
    No compensation, whether awarded or voluntarily paid, shall be paid to any attorney at law or in fact or other agent, but shall be paid...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903
    The appeals board may determine, and allow as liens against any sum to be paid as compensation, any amount determined as hereinafter set forth in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.05
    (a) Every lien claimant shall file its lien with the appeals board in writing upon a form approved by the appeals board. The lien shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.06
    (a) Any lien filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 4903 prior to January 1, 2013, and any cost that was filed as a lien...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.07
    (a) A lien claimant shall be entitled to an order or award for reimbursement of a lien filing fee or lien activation fee, together with...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.1
    (a) The appeals board or arbitrator, before issuing an award or approval of any compromise of claim, shall determine, on the basis of liens filed...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.2
    Where a lien claimant is reimbursed pursuant to subdivision (f) or (g) of Section 4903 or Section 4903.1, for benefits paid or services provided, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.3
    The director, as administrator of the Uninsured Employers Fund, may, in his discretion, provide compensation, including medical treatment, from the Uninsured Employers Fund in cases...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.4
    (a) If a dispute arises concerning a lien for expenses incurred by or on behalf of the injured employee as provided by Article 2 (commencing...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.5
    (a) A lien claim for expenses as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 4903 shall not be filed after three years from the date the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.6
    (a) Except as necessary to meet the requirements of Section 4903.5, a lien claim or application for adjudication shall not be filed or served under...
  • California Labor Code Section 4903.8
    (a) Any order or award for payment of a lien filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 4903 shall be made for payment only to...
  • California Labor Code Section 4904
    (a) If notice is given in writing to the insurer, or to the employer if uninsured, setting forth the nature and extent of any claim...
  • California Labor Code Section 4904.1
    The payment of liens as provided in Section 4904, shall in no way affect the commencement of immediate payments on any balance of the award...
  • California Labor Code Section 4905
    Except with regard to liens as permitted by subdivision (b) of Section 4903, if it appears in any proceeding pending before the appeals board that...
  • California Labor Code Section 4906
    (a) No charge, claim, or agreement for the legal services or disbursements mentioned in subdivision (a) of Section 4903, or for the expense mentioned in...
  • California Labor Code Section 4907
    (a) The privilege of any person, except attorneys admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the state, to appear in any proceeding as a...
  • California Labor Code Section 4908
    A claim for compensation for the injury or death of any employee, or any award or judgment entered thereon, has the same preference over the...
  • California Labor Code Section 4909
    Any payment, allowance, or benefit received by the injured employee during the period of his incapacity, or by his dependents in the event of his...
  • California Labor Code Section 4909.1
    Authorized representatives of the Department of Corrections, and the Department of the Youth Authority may request the State Compensation Insurance Fund to provide any payment,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5000
    No contract, rule, or regulation shall exempt the employer from liability for the compensation fixed by this division, but nothing in this division shall: (a)...
  • California Labor Code Section 5001
    Compensation is the measure of the responsibility which the employer has assumed for injuries or deaths which occur to employees in his employment when subject...
  • California Labor Code Section 5002
    A copy of the release or compromise agreement signed by both parties shall forthwith be filed with the appeals board. Upon filing with and approval...
  • California Labor Code Section 5003
    Every release or compromise agreement shall be in writing and duly executed, and the signature of the employee or other beneficiary shall be attested by...
  • California Labor Code Section 5004
    In case of death there shall also be stated in the release or compromise agreement: (a) The date of death. (b) The name of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5005
    In any case involving a claim of occupational disease or cumulative injury, as set forth in Section 5500.5, the employee and any employer, or any...
  • California Labor Code Section 5006
    A determination of facts by the appeals board under this chapter has no collateral estoppel effect on a subsequent criminal prosecution and does not preclude...
  • California Labor Code Section 5100
    At the time of making its award, or at any time thereafter, the appeals board, on its own motion either upon notice, or upon application...
  • California Labor Code Section 5100.5
    Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5100, the appeals board shall not commute the compensation payable under this division to a lump sum when such compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 5100.6
    Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5100, the appeals board shall not permit the commutation or settlement of prospective compensation or indemnity payments or other benefits...
  • California Labor Code Section 5101
    The amount of the lump sum shall be determined as follows: (a) If the injury causes temporary disability, the appeals board shall estimate the probable...
  • California Labor Code Section 5102
    The appeals board may order the lump sum paid directly to the injured employee or his dependents, or deposited with any savings bank or trust...
  • California Labor Code Section 5103
    Payments from the lump sum so deposited shall be made by the trustee only in the amounts and at the time fixed by order of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5104
    In the appointment of the trustee, preference may be given to the choice of the injured employee or his dependents.
  • California Labor Code Section 5105
    Upon the payment of a lump sum, the employer shall present to the appeals board a proper receipt evidencing the same, executed either by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5106
    The appeals board shall, upon the request of the Director of Industrial Relations, where the employer is uninsured and the installments of compensation awarded are...
  • California Labor Code Section 5270
    This part shall not apply in cases where an injured employee or dependent is involved unless the employee or dependent is represented by an attorney.
  • California Labor Code Section 5270.5
    (a) The presiding workers' compensation judge at each district office shall prepare a list of all eligible attorneys who apply to be placed on the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5271
    (a) The parties to a dispute submitted for arbitration may select any eligible attorney from the list prepared by the presiding workers' compensation judge to...
  • California Labor Code Section 5272
    Arbitrators shall have all of the statutory and regulatory duties and responsibilities of a workers' compensation judge, as set forth in Chapter 1 (commencing with...
  • California Labor Code Section 5273
    (a) In disputes between an employee and an employer, the employer shall pay all costs related to the arbitration proceeding, including use of facilities, hearing...
  • California Labor Code Section 5275
    (a) Disputes involving the following issues shall be submitted for arbitration: (1) Insurance coverage. (2) Right of contribution in accordance with Section 5500.5. (b) By...
  • California Labor Code Section 5276
    (a) Arbitration proceedings may commence at any place and time agreed upon by all parties. (b) If the parties cannot agree on a time or...
  • California Labor Code Section 5277
    (a) The arbitrator's findings and award shall be served on all parties within 30 days of submission of the case for decision. (b) The arbitrator's...
  • California Labor Code Section 5278
    (a) No disclosure of any offers of settlement made by any party shall be made to the arbitrator prior to the filing of the award....
  • California Labor Code Section 5300
    All the following proceedings shall be instituted before the appeals board and not elsewhere, except as otherwise provided in Division 4: (a) For the recovery...
  • California Labor Code Section 5301
    The appeals board is vested with full power, authority and jurisdiction to try and determine finally all the matters specified in Section 5300 subject only...
  • California Labor Code Section 5302
    All orders, rules, findings, decisions, and awards of the appeals board shall be prima facie lawful and conclusively presumed to be reasonable and lawful, until...
  • California Labor Code Section 5303
    There is but one cause of action for each injury coming within the provisions of this division. All claims brought for medical expense, disability payments,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5304
    The appeals board has jurisdiction over any controversy relating to or arising out of Sections 4600 to 4605 inclusive, unless an express agreement fixing the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5305
    The Division of Workers' Compensation, including the administrative director, and the appeals board have jurisdiction over all controversies arising out of injuries suffered outside the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5306
    The death of an employer subsequent to the sustaining of an injury by an employee shall not impair the right of the employee to proceed...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307
    (a) The appeals board may, by an order signed by four members, do all of the following: (1) Adopt reasonable and proper rules of practice...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.1
    (a) (1) The administrative director, after public hearings, shall adopt and revise periodically an official medical fee schedule that shall establish reasonable maximum fees paid...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.11
    A health care provider or health facility licensed pursuant to Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, and a contracting agent, employer, or carrier...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.2
    The administrative director shall contract with an independent consulting firm, to the extent permitted by state law, to perform an annual study of access to...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.27
    On or before December 1, 2004, the administrative director, in consultation with the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation, shall adopt, after public...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.3
    The administrative director may adopt, amend, or repeal any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to enforce this division, except where this power is...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.4
    (a) Public hearings required under Sections 5307 and 5307.3 shall be subject to the provisions of this section except to the extent that there is...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.5
    The appeals board or a workers' compensation judge may: (a) Appoint a trustee or guardian ad litem to appear for and represent any minor or...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.6
    (a) The administrative director shall adopt and revise a fee schedule for medical-legal expenses as defined by Section 4620, which shall be prima facie evidence...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.7
    (a) On or before January 1, 2013, the administrative director shall adopt, after public hearings, a fee schedule that shall establish reasonable fees paid for...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.8
    Notwithstanding Section 5307.1, on or before July 1, 2013, the administrative director shall adopt, after public hearings, a schedule for payment of home health care...
  • California Labor Code Section 5307.9
    On or before December 31, 2013, the administrative director, in consultation with the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation, shall adopt, after public...
  • California Labor Code Section 5308
    The appeals board has jurisdiction to determine controversies arising out of insurance policies issued to self-employing persons, conferring benefits identical with those prescribed by this...
  • California Labor Code Section 5309
    The appeals board may, in accordance with rules of practice and procedure which it shall adopt and upon the agreement of the parties, on the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5310
    The appeals board may appoint one or more workers' compensation administrative law judges in any proceeding, as it may deem necessary or advisable, and may...
  • California Labor Code Section 5311
    Any party to the proceeding may object to the reference of the proceeding to a particular workers' compensation judge upon any one or more of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5311.5
    The administrative director shall require all workers' compensation administrative law judges to participate in continuing education to further their abilities as workers' compensation administrative law...
  • California Labor Code Section 5312
    Before entering upon his or her duties, the workers' compensation judge shall be sworn, before an officer authorized to administer oaths, faithfully and fairly to...
  • California Labor Code Section 5313
    The appeals board or the workers' compensation judge shall, within 30 days after the case is submitted, make and file findings upon all facts involved...
  • California Labor Code Section 5315
    Within 60 days after the filing of the findings, decision, order or award, the appeals board may confirm, adopt, modify or set aside the findings,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5316
    Any notice, order, or decision required by this division to be served upon any person either before, during, or after the institution of any proceeding...
  • California Labor Code Section 5317
    Any such notice, order or decision affecting the State or any county, city, school district, or public corporation therein, shall be served upon the person...
  • California Labor Code Section 5400
    Except as provided by sections 5402 and 5403, no claim to recover compensation under this division shall be maintained unless within thirty days after the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5401
    (a) Within one working day of receiving notice or knowledge of injury under Section 5400 or 5402, which injury results in lost time beyond the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5401.7
    The claim form shall contain, prominently stated, the following statement: "Any person who makes or causes to be made any knowingly false or fraudulent material...
  • California Labor Code Section 5402
    (a) Knowledge of an injury, obtained from any source, on the part of an employer, his or her managing agent, superintendent, foreman, or other person...
  • California Labor Code Section 5403
    The failure to give notice under section 5400, or any defect or inaccuracy in a notice is not a bar to recovery under this division...
  • California Labor Code Section 5404
    Unless compensation is paid within the time limited in this chapter for the institution of proceedings for its collection, the right to institute such proceedings...
  • California Labor Code Section 5404.5
    (a) Where a claim form has been filed prior to January 1, 1994, and where the claim is denied by the employer, the claim may...
  • California Labor Code Section 5405
    The period within which proceedings may be commenced for the collection of the benefits provided by Article 2 (commencing with Section 4600) or Article 3...
  • California Labor Code Section 5406
    Except as provided in Section 5406.5 or 5406.6, the period within which may be commenced proceedings for the collection of the benefits provided by Article...
  • California Labor Code Section 5406.5
    In the case of the death of an asbestos worker or firefighter from asbestosis, the period within which proceedings may be commenced for the collection...
  • California Labor Code Section 5406.6
    (a) In the case of the death of a health care worker, a worker described in Section 3212, or a worker described in Section 830.5...
  • California Labor Code Section 5407
    The period within which may be commenced proceedings for the collection of compensation on the ground of serious and willful misconduct of the employer, under...
  • California Labor Code Section 5407.5
    The period within which may be commenced proceedings for the reduction of compensation on the ground of serious and willful misconduct of the employee, under...
  • California Labor Code Section 5408
    If an injured employee or, in the case of the employee's death, any of the employee's dependents, is under 18 years of age or incompetent...
  • California Labor Code Section 5409
    The running of the period of limitations prescribed by this chapter is an affirmative defense and operates to bar the remedy and not to extinguish...
  • California Labor Code Section 5410
    Nothing in this chapter shall bar the right of any injured worker to institute proceedings for the collection of compensation, including vocational rehabilitation services, within...
  • California Labor Code Section 5410.1
    Should any party to a proceeding institute proceedings to reduce the amount of permanent disability awarded to an applicant by the appeals board and be...
  • California Labor Code Section 5411
    The date of injury, except in cases of occupational disease or cumulative injury, is that date during the employment on which occurred the alleged incident...
  • California Labor Code Section 5412
    The date of injury in cases of occupational diseases or cumulative injuries is that date upon which the employee first suffered disability therefrom and either...
  • California Labor Code Section 5413
    A determination of facts by the appeals board under this chapter has no collateral estoppel effect on a subsequent criminal prosecution and does not preclude...
  • California Labor Code Section 5430
    This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Workers' Compensation Truth in Advertising Act of 1992.
  • California Labor Code Section 5431
    The purpose of this chapter is to assure truthful and adequate disclosure of all material and relevant information in the advertising which solicits persons to...
  • California Labor Code Section 5432
    (a) Any advertisement which solicits persons to file workers' compensation claims or to engage or consult counsel or a medical care provider or clinic to...
  • California Labor Code Section 5433
    (a) Any advertisement or other device designed to produce leads based on a response from a person to file a workers' compensation claim or to...
  • California Labor Code Section 5434
    (a) Any advertiser who violates Section 5431 or 5432 is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) For the purposes of this chapter, "advertiser" means any person...
  • California Labor Code Section 5450
    The Division of Workers' Compensation shall make available to employees, employers and other interested parties information, assistance, and advice to assure the proper and timely...
  • California Labor Code Section 5451
    Any party may consult with, or seek the advice of, an information and assistance officer within the Division of Workers' Compensation as designated by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5453
    After consideration of the information submitted, including the reports of any bureau or unit within the Division of Workers' Compensation which have been received, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5454
    Submission of any matter to an information and assistance officer of the Division of Workers' Compensation shall toll any applicable statute of limitations for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5455
    Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any party from filing an application for benefits under this division. In any proceeding pursuant to such application, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5500
    No pleadings other than the application and answer shall be required. Both shall be in writing and shall conform to forms prescribed by the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 5500.3
    (a) The appeals board shall establish uniform district office procedures, uniform forms, and uniform time of court settings for all district offices of the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 5500.5
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 5500.6, liability for occupational disease or cumulative injury claims filed or asserted on or after January 1, 1978,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5500.6
    Liability for occupational disease or cumulative injury which results from exposure solely during employment as an employee, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 3351,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5501
    The application may be filed with the appeals board by any party in interest, his attorney, or other representative authorized in writing. A representative who...
  • California Labor Code Section 5501.5
    (a) The application for adjudication of claim shall be filed in any of the following locations: (1) In the county where the injured employee or...
  • California Labor Code Section 5501.6
    (a) An applicant or defendant may petition the appeals board for a change of venue and a change of venue shall be granted for good...
  • California Labor Code Section 5502
    (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (d), the hearing shall be held not less than 10 days, and not more than 60 days,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5502.5
    A continuance of any conference or hearing required by Section 5502 shall not be favored, but may be granted by a workers' compensation judge upon...
  • California Labor Code Section 5503
    The person so applying shall be known as the applicant and the adverse party shall be known as the defendant.
  • California Labor Code Section 5504
    A notice of the time and place of hearing shall be served upon the applicant and all adverse parties and may be served either in...
  • California Labor Code Section 5505
    If any defendant desires to disclaim any interest in the subject matter of the claim in controversy, or considers that the application is in any...
  • California Labor Code Section 5506
    If the defendant fails to appear or answer, no default shall be taken against him, but the appeals board shall proceed to the hearing of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5507
    If an application shows upon its face that the applicant is not entitled to compensation, the appeals board may, after opportunity to the applicant to...
  • California Labor Code Section 5600
    The appeals board may, upon the filing of an application by or on behalf of an injured employee, the employee's dependents, or any other party...
  • California Labor Code Section 5601
    The provisions of Title 6.5 (commencing with Section 481.010) of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as far as applicable, shall govern the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5602
    No writ of attachment shall be issued except upon the order of the appeals board. Such order shall not be made where it appears from...
  • California Labor Code Section 5603
    In levying attachments preference shall be given to the real property of the employer.
  • California Labor Code Section 5700
    The hearing on the application may be adjourned from time to time and from place to place in the discretion of the appeals board or...
  • California Labor Code Section 5701
    The appeals board may, with or without notice to either party, cause testimony to be taken, or inspection of the premises where the injury occurred...
  • California Labor Code Section 5702
    The parties to a controversy may stipulate the facts relative thereto in writing and file such stipulation with the appeals board. The appeals board may...
  • California Labor Code Section 5703
    The appeals board may receive as evidence either at or subsequent to a hearing, and use as proof of any fact in dispute, the following...
  • California Labor Code Section 5703.5
    (a) The appeals board, at any time after an application is filed and prior to the expiration of its jurisdiction may, upon the agreement of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5704
    Transcripts of all testimony taken without notice and copies of all reports and other matters added to the record, otherwise than during the course of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5705
    The burden of proof rests upon the party or lien claimant holding the affirmative of the issue. The following are affirmative defenses, and the burden...
  • California Labor Code Section 5706
    Where it is represented to the appeals board, either before or after the filing of an application, that an employee has died as a result...
  • California Labor Code Section 5707
    If the body of a deceased employee is not in the custody of the coroner, the appeals board may authorize the performance of such autopsy...
  • California Labor Code Section 5708
    All hearings and investigations before the appeals board or a workers' compensation judge are governed by this division and by the rules of practice and...
  • California Labor Code Section 5709
    No informality in any proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony shall invalidate any order, decision, award, or rule made and filed as specified...
  • California Labor Code Section 5710
    (a) The appeals board, a workers' compensation judge, or any party to the action or proceeding, may, in any investigation or hearing before the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 5800
    All awards of the appeals board either for the payment of compensation or for the payment of death benefits, shall carry interest at the same...
  • California Labor Code Section 5800.5
    The 30-day period specified in Section 5313, shall run from the date of the submission of the application for decision and the provisions requiring the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5801
    The appeals board in its award may fix and determine the total amount of compensation to be paid and specify the manner of payment, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 5802
    If, in any proceeding under this division, it is proved that an injury has been suffered for which the employer would be liable to pay...
  • California Labor Code Section 5803
    The appeals board has continuing jurisdiction over all its orders, decisions, and awards made and entered under the provisions of this division, and the decisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 5803.5
    Any conviction pursuant to Section 1871.4 of the Insurance Code that materially affects the basis of any order, decision, or award of the appeals board...
  • California Labor Code Section 5804
    No award of compensation shall be rescinded, altered, or amended after five years from the date of the injury except upon a petition by a...
  • California Labor Code Section 5805
    Any order, decision, or award rescinding, altering or amending a prior order, decision, or award shall have the effect herein provided for original orders, decisions,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5806
    Any party affected thereby may file a certified copy of the findings and order, decision, or award of the appeals board with the clerk of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5807
    The certified copy of the findings and order, decision, or award of the appeals board and a copy of the judgment constitute the judgment-roll. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 5808
    The appeals board or a member thereof may stay the execution of any judgment entered upon an order, decision, or award of the appeals board,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5809
    When a judgment is satisfied in fact, otherwise than upon an execution, the appeals board may, upon motion of either party or of its own...
  • California Labor Code Section 5810
    The orders, findings, decisions, or awards of the appeals board made and entered under this division may be reviewed by the courts specified in Sections...
  • California Labor Code Section 5811
    (a) No fees shall be charged by the clerk of any court for the performance of any official service required by this division, except for...
  • California Labor Code Section 5813
    (a) The workers' compensation referee or appeals board may order a party, the party's attorney, or both, to pay any reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees...
  • California Labor Code Section 5814
    (a) When payment of compensation has been unreasonably delayed or refused, either prior to or subsequent to the issuance of an award, the amount of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5814.1
    When the payment of compensation has been unreasonably delayed or refused prior to the issuance of an award, and the director has provided discretionary compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 5814.5
    When the payment of compensation has been unreasonably delayed or refused subsequent to the issuance of an award by an employer that has secured the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5814.6
    (a) Any employer or insurer that knowingly violates Section 5814 with a frequency that indicates a general business practice is liable for administrative penalties of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5815
    Every order, decision or award, other than an order merely appointing a trustee or guardian, shall contain a determination of all issues presented for determination...
  • California Labor Code Section 5816
    A determination of facts by the appeals board under this chapter has no collateral estoppel effect on a subsequent criminal prosecution and does not preclude...
  • California Labor Code Section 5900
    (a) Any person aggrieved directly or indirectly by any final order, decision, or award made and filed by the appeals board or a workers' compensation...
  • California Labor Code Section 5901
    No cause of action arising out of any final order, decision or award made and filed by the appeals board or a workers' compensation judge...
  • California Labor Code Section 5902
    The petition for reconsideration shall set forth specifically and in full detail the grounds upon which the petitioner considers the final order, decision or award...
  • California Labor Code Section 5903
    At any time within 20 days after the service of any final order, decision, or award made and filed by the appeals board or a...
  • California Labor Code Section 5904
    The petitioner for reconsideration shall be deemed to have finally waived all objections, irregularities, and illegalities concerning the matter upon which the reconsideration is sought...
  • California Labor Code Section 5905
    A copy of the petition for reconsideration shall be served forthwith upon all adverse parties by the person petitioning for reconsideration. Any adverse party may...
  • California Labor Code Section 5906
    Upon the filing of a petition for reconsideration, or having granted reconsideration upon its own motion, the appeals board may, with or without further proceedings...
  • California Labor Code Section 5907
    If, at the time of granting reconsideration, it appears to the satisfaction of the appeals board that no sufficient reason exists for taking further testimony,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5908
    (a) After the taking of additional evidence and a consideration of all of the facts the appeals board may affirm, rescind, alter, or amend the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5908.5
    Any decision of the appeals board granting or denying a petition for reconsideration or affirming, rescinding, altering, or amending the original findings, order, decision, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 5909
    A petition for reconsideration is deemed to have been denied by the appeals board unless it is acted upon within 60 days from the date...
  • California Labor Code Section 5910
    The filing of a petition for reconsideration shall suspend for a period of 10 days the order, decision, or award affected, insofar as it applies...
  • California Labor Code Section 5911
    Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prevent the appeals board, on petition of an aggrieved party or on its own motion, from...
  • California Labor Code Section 5950
    Any person affected by an order, decision, or award of the appeals board may, within the time limit specified in this section, apply to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 5951
    The writ of review shall be made returnable at a time and place then or thereafter specified by court order and shall direct the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 5952
    The review by the court shall not be extended further than to determine, based upon the entire record which shall be certified by the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 5953
    The findings and conclusions of the appeals board on questions of fact are conclusive and final and are not subject to review. Such questions of...
  • California Labor Code Section 5954
    The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to writs of review shall, so far as applicable, apply to proceedings in the courts under...
  • California Labor Code Section 5955
    No court of this state, except the Supreme Court and the courts of appeal to the extent herein specified, has jurisdiction to review, reverse, correct,...
  • California Labor Code Section 5956
    The filing of a petition for, or the pendency of, a writ of review shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of any...
  • California Labor Code Section 6000
    The operation of any order, decision, or award of the appeals board under the provisions of this division or any judgment entered thereon, shall not...
  • California Labor Code Section 6001
    The undertaking shall provide that: (a) The petitioner and sureties are bound in double the amount named in such order, decision, or award. (b) If...
  • California Labor Code Section 6002
    The undertaking shall be filed with the appeals board. The certificate of the appeals board, or any proper officer thereof, of the filing and approval...
  • California Labor Code Section 6100
    The purpose of this division is to effect economy, efficiency, and continuity in the public service by providing means for increasing the willingness of competent...
  • California Labor Code Section 6101
    Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this division: (a) "State agency" means any agency, department, division, commission, board, bureau, officer, or other authority...
  • California Labor Code Section 6110
    Any State agency may, by appropriate action, undertake to provide hospitalization, medical treatment and indemnity, including death benefits, to its employees and to their dependents...
  • California Labor Code Section 6111
    The State Compensation Insurance Fund may enter into a master agreement with the State Department of Finance to render services in accordance with the agreement...
  • California Labor Code Section 6112
    The master agreement shall provide for the rendition of services at a uniform rate to all State agencies.
  • California Labor Code Section 6113
    The fund may make all expenditures, including payments to claimants for medical care or for adjustment or settlement of claims.
  • California Labor Code Section 6114
    The agreement shall provide that the State agency whose officer or employee is a claimant shall reimburse the fund for the expenditures and for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6115
    The fund may in its own name, or in the name of the State agency for which services are performed, do any and all things...
  • California Labor Code Section 6130
    In lieu of direct payments pursuant to Chapter 2 of this division, any State agency may obtain by insurance from the State Compensation Insurance Fund,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6131
    The premium for such insurance shall be a proper charge against any moneys appropriated for the support of or expenditure by such State agency. In...
  • California Labor Code Section 6140
    The hospitalization, medical treatment, and indemnity, including death benefits, provided pursuant to this division shall be the same as provided by Division 4 of this...
  • California Labor Code Section 6141
    Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of Division 4 of this code, relating to benefits, procedure, and limitations, and all other provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 6142
    The provisions of Sections 3212, 3212.5, 3361, 4458, and 4800 to 4855, inclusive, of this code, as well as of other sections of Division 4...
  • California Labor Code Section 6143
    The appeals board is vested with all power not inconsistent with Article VI of the Constitution of the State of California to hear and determine...
  • California Labor Code Section 6144
    The appeals board may try and determine controversies under this division referred to it by the parties under the provisions of Title 9 (commencing with...
  • California Labor Code Section 6145
    The state, acting by or through any state agency, or when the consent of the opposing party is obtained, shall submit to the appeals board...
  • California Labor Code Section 6146
    In acting as arbitrator, the appeals board has all the powers which it has in compensation cases, and its findings and award upon an arbitration...
  • California Labor Code Section 6147
    No state agency, either directly or through its adjusting agency, the State Compensation Insurance Fund, shall pay or provide any benefit authorized by this division...
  • California Labor Code Section 6148
    The insurer, when insurance exists, shall not pay or provide any benefit authorized by this division unless and until the claimant makes and delivers to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6149
    Nothing shall preclude an employee from negotiating the agreement mentioned in Sections 6147 and 6148 prior to the occurrence of injury.
  • California Labor Code Section 6200
    Every public agency, its insurance carrier, and the State Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of injured full-time...
  • California Labor Code Section 6201
    The employer or insurance carrier shall notify the injured employee of the availability of rehabilitation services in those cases where there is continuing disability of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6202
    The initiation of a rehabilitation plan shall be the joint responsibility of the injured employee, and the employer or the insurance carrier.
  • California Labor Code Section 6203
    If a rehabilitation plan requires an injured employee to attend an educational or medical facility away from his home, the injured employee shall be paid...
  • California Labor Code Section 6204
    An injured employee agreeing to a rehabilitation plan shall cooperate in carrying it out. On his unreasonable refusal to comply with the provisions of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6205
    The injured employee may agree with his employer or insurance carrier upon a rehabilitation plan without submission of such plan for approval to the State...
  • California Labor Code Section 6206
    The injured employee shall receive such medical and vocational rehabilitative services as may be reasonably necessary to restore him to suitable employment.
  • California Labor Code Section 6207
    The injured employee's rehabilitation benefit is an additional benefit and shall not be converted to or replace any workmen's compensation benefit available to him.
  • California Labor Code Section 6208
    The initiation and acceptance of a rehabilitation program shall be voluntary and not compulsory upon the employer, the insurance carrier, or the injured employee.
  • California Labor Code Section 6300
    The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 is hereby enacted for the purpose of assuring safe and healthful working conditions for all California...
  • California Labor Code Section 6301
    The definitions set forth in this chapter shall govern the construction and interpretation of this part.
  • California Labor Code Section 6302
    As used in this division: (a) "Director" means the Director of Industrial Relations. (b) "Department" means the Department of Industrial Relations. (c) "Insurer" includes the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6303
    (a) "Place of employment" means any place, and the premises appurtenant thereto, where employment is carried on, except a place where the health and safety...
  • California Labor Code Section 6303.5
    Nothing in this division shall be construed to limit the jurisdiction of the state over any employmment or place of employment by reason of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6304
    "Employer" shall have the same meaning as in Section 3300.
  • California Labor Code Section 6304.1
    (a) "Employee" means every person who is required or directed by any employer to engage in any employment or to go to work or be...
  • California Labor Code Section 6304.2
    Notwithstanding Section 6413, and except as provided in Sections 6304. 3 and 6304.4, any state prisoner engaged in correctional industry, as defined by the Department...
  • California Labor Code Section 6304.3
    (a) A Correctional Industry Safety Committee shall be established in accordance with Department of Corrections administrative procedures at each facility maintaining a correctional industry, as...
  • California Labor Code Section 6304.4
    A prisoner engaged in correctional industry, as defined by the Department of Corrections, shall not be considered an employee for purposes of the provisions relating...
  • California Labor Code Section 6304.5
    It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this division, and the occupational safety and health standards and orders promulgated under this...
  • California Labor Code Section 6305
    (a) "Occupational safety and health standards and orders" means standards and orders adopted by the standards board pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 140)...
  • California Labor Code Section 6306
    (a) "Safe," "safety," and "health" as applied to an employment or a place of employment mean such freedom from danger to the life, safety, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 6307
    The division has the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over every employment and place of employment in this state, which is necessary adequately to enforce and...
  • California Labor Code Section 6307.1
    The State Department of Health Services shall assist the division in the enforcement of Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code in the manner...
  • California Labor Code Section 6308
    The division, in enforcing occupational safety and health standards and orders and special orders may do any of the following: (a) Declare and prescribe what...
  • California Labor Code Section 6308.5
    Hearings conducted by the division pursuant to this part shall give any affected employer or other affected person the opportunity to submit facts or arguments,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6309
    If the division learns or has reason to believe that an employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare...
  • California Labor Code Section 6310
    (a) No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has done any of the following: (1) Made any...
  • California Labor Code Section 6311
    No employee shall be laid off or discharged for refusing to perform work in the performance of which this code, including Section 6400, any occupational...
  • California Labor Code Section 6312
    Any employee who believes that he or she has been discharged or otherwise discriminated against by any person in violation of Section 6310 or 6311...
  • California Labor Code Section 6313
    (a) The division shall investigate the causes of any employment accident that is fatal to one or more employees or that results in a serious...
  • California Labor Code Section 6313.5
    The division shall transmit to the Registrar of Contractors copies of any reports made in any investigation conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 6313,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6314
    (a) To make an investigation or inspection, the chief of the division and all qualified divisional inspectors and investigators authorized by him or her shall,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6314.1
    (a) The division shall establish a program for targeting employers in high hazardous industries with the highest incidence of preventable occupational injuries and illnesses and...
  • California Labor Code Section 6314.5
    (a) Every inspection conducted by the division shall include an evaluation of the employer's injury prevention program established pursuant to Section 6401.7. The division shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 6315
    (a) There is within the division a Bureau of Investigations. The bureau is responsible for directing accident investigations involving violations of standards, orders, special orders,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6315.3
    The bureau shall, not later than February 15, annually submit to the division for submission to the director a report on the activities of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6315.5
    All occupational safety and health standards and orders, rules, regulations, findings, and decisions of the division made and entered pursuant to this part are admissible...
  • California Labor Code Section 6316
    Except as limited by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 140) of Division 1, nothing in this part shall deprive the governing body of any county,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6317
    If, upon inspection or investigation, the division believes that an employer has violated Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code or any standard, rule,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6317.5
    (a) If, upon inspection or investigation, the division finds that an employer has falsified any materials posted in the workplace or distributed to employees related...
  • California Labor Code Section 6317.7
    If, upon inspection or investigation, the division finds no violations pursuant to this chapter, the division with reasonable promptness shall issue a written notice to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6318
    (a) Each citation issued under Section 6317, and each special order or action ordered pursuant to Section 6308, or a copy or copies thereof, shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 6319
    (a) If, after an inspection or investigation, the division issues a citation pursuant to Section 6317 or an order pursuant to Section 6308, it shall,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6319.3
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section and subdivision (j) of Section 6401.7, no civil penalty shall be assessed against any new...
  • California Labor Code Section 6319.5
    Upon a showing by an employer of a good-faith effort to comply with the abatement requirement of a citation, and that abatement has not been...
  • California Labor Code Section 6320
    (a) If, after inspection or investigation, the division issues a special order, order to take special action, or a citation for a serious violation, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 6321
    No person or employer shall be given advance warning of an inspection or investigation by any authorized representative of the division unless authorized under provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 6322
    All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the chief or his representatives in connection with any inspection or proceeding of the division which contains...
  • California Labor Code Section 6323
    If the condition of any employment or place of employment or the operation of any machine, device, apparatus, or equipment constitutes a serious menace to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6324
    The application to the superior court accompanied by affidavit showing that such place of employment, machine, device, apparatus, or equipment is being operated in violation...
  • California Labor Code Section 6325
    When, in the opinion of the division, a place of employment, machine, device, apparatus, or equipment or any part thereof is in a dangerous condition,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6325.5
    If the division has reasonable cause to believe that any workplace contains friable asbestos, and if there appears to be inadequate protection for employees at...
  • California Labor Code Section 6326
    Every person who, after such notice is attached as provided in Section 6325, enters any such place of employment, or uses or operates any such...
  • California Labor Code Section 6327
    Once an authorized representative of the division has prohibited entry in or use of a place of employment, machine, device, apparatus, or equipment, as specified...
  • California Labor Code Section 6327.5
    If the division arbitrarily or capriciously fails to take action to prevent or prohibit any conditions or practices in any employment or place of employment...
  • California Labor Code Section 6328
    The division shall prepare a notice containing pertinent information regarding safety rules and regulations. The notice shall contain the address and telephone number of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6329
    All money collected for violation of standards, orders, or special orders of, or for fees paid pursuant to this division shall be paid into the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6330
    The director shall prepare and submit to the Legislature, not later than March 1, an annual report on the division activities. The report shall include,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6331
    The division shall enter into a contract for the development and execution of tests to define safety standards for the use of positive pressure, closed...
  • California Labor Code Section 6332
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Community health care worker" means an individual who provides health care...
  • California Labor Code Section 6350
    The division shall maintain an education and research program for the purpose of providing in-service training of division personnel, safety education for employees and employers,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6351
    The division shall be responsible for preparation and distribution of information concerning occupational safety and health programs, methods, techniques or devices. Such information may include...
  • California Labor Code Section 6352
    The division shall provide safety training programs, upon request, for employees and employers. Priority for the development of safety training programs shall be in those...
  • California Labor Code Section 6353
    The division shall conduct continuing research into methods, means, operations, techniques, processes and practices necessary for improvement of occupational safety and health of employees.
  • California Labor Code Section 6354
    The division shall, upon request, provide a full range of occupational safety and health consulting services to any employer or employee group. These consulting services...
  • California Labor Code Section 6354.5
    (a) Any insurer desiring to write workers' compensation insurance shall maintain or provide occupational safety and health loss control consultation services. The insurer may employ...
  • California Labor Code Section 6354.7
    (a) The Workers' Occupational Safety and Health Education Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury. Proceeds of the fund may...
  • California Labor Code Section 6355
    If the employer requests or accepts consulting services offered pursuant to Section 6354, the division in providing such services at the employer's employment or place...
  • California Labor Code Section 6356
    (a) There is hereby created, in the General Fund, the Worker Safety Bilingual Investigative Support, Enforcement, and Training Account. The moneys in the account may...
  • California Labor Code Section 6357
    On or before January 1, 1995, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall adopt standards for ergonomics in the workplace designed to minimize the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6359
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Every year 70 adolescents die from work injuries in the United States and 200,000 are injured,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6360
    This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Hazardous Substances Information and Training Act.
  • California Labor Code Section 6361
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Hazardous substances in the workplace in some forms and concentrations pose potential acute and chronic health...
  • California Labor Code Section 6362
    The rights and duties set forth in this chapter apply to all employers who use hazardous substances in this state, to any person who sells...
  • California Labor Code Section 6363
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require a manufacturer or employer to conduct studies to develop new information.
  • California Labor Code Section 6365
    Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article and the provisions of Article 1 shall govern the construction of provisions of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 6366
    "CAS number" means the unique identification number assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service to specific chemical substances.
  • California Labor Code Section 6367
    "Chemical name" is the scientific designation of a substance in accordance with the nomenclature system developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry...
  • California Labor Code Section 6368
    "Common name" means any designation or identification such as code name, code number, trade name, or brand name used to identify a substance other than...
  • California Labor Code Section 6370
    "Expose" or "exposure" means any situation arising from work operation where an employee may ingest, inhale, absorb through the skin or eyes, or otherwise come...
  • California Labor Code Section 6371
    "Impurity" means a hazardous substance which is unintentionally present with another substance or mixture.
  • California Labor Code Section 6372
    "Manufacturer" means a person who produces, synthesizes, extracts, or otherwise makes a hazardous substance.
  • California Labor Code Section 6373
    "Mixture" means any solution or intimate admixture of two or more substances, at least one of which is present as a hazardous substance, as designated...
  • California Labor Code Section 6374
    "MSDS" means a material safety data sheet prepared pursuant to Section 6390. A label in 8-point or larger type, prepared pursuant to Section 6390, shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 6380
    For the purposes of this chapter, the director, pursuant to Section 6382, shall establish a list of hazardous substances and shall make the list available...
  • California Labor Code Section 6380.5
    (a) Prior to the director's adoption of the list of hazardous substances, the director shall submit the list to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards...
  • California Labor Code Section 6381
    Substances not present on the list of hazardous substances adopted pursuant to Section 6380 shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter. However,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6382
    The director shall prepare and amend the list of hazardous substances according to the following procedure: (a) Any substance designated in any of the following...
  • California Labor Code Section 6383
    (a) For the purposes of this chapter, a hazardous substance is present in any mixture or product if it is present in any of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6384
    This chapter does not apply to impurities which develop as intermediate materials during chemical processing but are not present in the final product, and to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6385
    The provisions of this chapter do not apply to hazardous substances contained in either of the following: (a) Products intended for personal consumption by employees...
  • California Labor Code Section 6386
    (a) A laboratory in which a hazardous substance is used by or under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual is not an employer...
  • California Labor Code Section 6390
    The manufacturer of any hazardous substance listed pursuant to the provisions of Section 6380 shall prepare and provide its direct purchasers of the hazardous substance...
  • California Labor Code Section 6390.5
    The manufacturer, importer, and distributor of any hazardous substance, and the employer, shall label each container of a hazardous substance in a manner consistent with...
  • California Labor Code Section 6391
    The information which manufacturers shall provide to their purchasers pursuant to the provisions of Section 6390 shall include the following, if pertinent: (a) The chemical...
  • California Labor Code Section 6392
    Provision of a federal Material Safety Data Sheet or equivalent shall constitute prima facie proof of compliance with Section 6390.
  • California Labor Code Section 6393
    The manufacturer shall be relieved of the obligation to provide a specific purchaser of a hazardous substance with an MSDS pursuant to Section 6390 if...
  • California Labor Code Section 6394
    The preparer of an MSDS shall provide the department with a copy of the MSDS on each hazardous substance it manufactures. The preparer may transmit...
  • California Labor Code Section 6395
    (a) The manufacturer may provide the information required by Section 6390 on an entire product mixture, instead of on each hazardous substance in it, when...
  • California Labor Code Section 6396
    (a) The Director of Industrial Relations shall protect from disclosure any and all trade secrets coming into his or her possession, as defined in subdivision...
  • California Labor Code Section 6397
    (a) Any person other than a manufacturer who sells a mixture or any hazardous substance shall provide its direct purchasers of the mixture or hazardous...
  • California Labor Code Section 6398
    The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall adopt a standard setting forth an employer's duties toward its employees under this chapter, on or before...
  • California Labor Code Section 6399
    Upon request, the manufacturer of a hazardous substance or the producer of a mixture who has produced a mixture MSDS pursuant to the provisions of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6399.1
    Compliance with regulations of the Director of Food and Agriculture issued pursuant to Section 12981 of the Food and Agricultural Code shall be deemed compliance...
  • California Labor Code Section 6399.2
    This article shall become operative 180 days after adoption of the initial list of hazardous substances pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 6380).
  • California Labor Code Section 6399.5
    The provisions of this chapter regarding manufacturers, employers, and persons subject to the provisions of Section 6397, shall be enforced pursuant to the provisions of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6399.6
    The provision of information to an employee pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not in any way affect any other liability of an...
  • California Labor Code Section 6399.7
    No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against, any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or has instituted, or caused to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6400
    (a) Every employer shall furnish employment and a place of employment that is safe and healthful for the employees therein. (b) On multiemployer worksites, both...
  • California Labor Code Section 6401
    Every employer shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use practices, means, methods, operations, and processes which are reasonably adequate...
  • California Labor Code Section 6401.5
    No salvage of materials shall be permitted while demolition is in progress on any building, structure, falsework, or scaffold more than three stories high or...
  • California Labor Code Section 6401.7
    (a) Every employer shall establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program. The program shall be written, except as provided in subdivision (e), and...
  • California Labor Code Section 6402
    No employer shall require, or permit any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe and healthful.
  • California Labor Code Section 6403
    No employer shall fail or neglect to do any of the following: (a) To provide and use safety devices and safeguards reasonably adequate to render...
  • California Labor Code Section 6403.5
    (a) As part of the injury and illness prevention programs required by Section 3203 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, or any...
  • California Labor Code Section 6404
    No employer shall occupy or maintain any place of employment that is not safe and healthful.
  • California Labor Code Section 6404.5
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that regulation of smoking in the workplace is a matter of statewide interest and concern. It is the intent...
  • California Labor Code Section 6405
    No employer, owner, or lessee of any real property shall construct or cause to be constructed any place of employment that is not safe and
  • California Labor Code Section 6406
    No person shall do any of the following: (a) Remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device, safeguard, notice, or warning, furnished for...
  • California Labor Code Section 6407
    Every employer and every employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards, with Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, and with all...
  • California Labor Code Section 6408
    All employers shall provide information to employees in the following ways, as prescribed by authorized regulations: (a) Posting of information regarding protections and obligations of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6409
    (a) Every physician as defined in Section 3209.3 who attends any injured employee shall file a complete report of every occupational injury or occupational illness...
  • California Labor Code Section 6409.1
    (a) Every employer shall file a complete report of every occupational injury or occupational illness, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 6409, to each...
  • California Labor Code Section 6409.2
    Whenever a state, county, or local fire or police agency is called to an accident involving an employee covered by this part in which a...
  • California Labor Code Section 6409.3
    In no case shall the treatment administered for pesticide poisoning or a condition suspected as pesticide poisoning be deemed to be first aid treatment.
  • California Labor Code Section 6409.5
    (a) Whenever any local public fire agency has knowledge that a place of employment where garment manufacturing operations take place contains fire or safety hazards...
  • California Labor Code Section 6410
    (a) The reports required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409 and Section 6413 shall be made in the form and detail and within the time...
  • California Labor Code Section 6410.5
    The reports required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409, subdivision (a) of Section 6409.1, and Section 6413 shall contain, prominently stated, the statement set forth...
  • California Labor Code Section 6411
    Every employer or insurer receiving forms with directions from the Department of Industrial Relations to complete them shall cause them to be properly filled out...
  • California Labor Code Section 6412
    No report of injury or illness required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409.1 shall be open to public inspection or made public, nor shall those...
  • California Labor Code Section 6413
    (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and every physician or surgeon who attends any injured state prisoner, shall file with the Division of Occupational...
  • California Labor Code Section 6413.2
    (a) With regard to any report required by Section 6413, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health may make recommendations to the Department of Corrections...
  • California Labor Code Section 6413.5
    Any employer or physician who fails to comply with any provision of subdivision (a) of Section 6409, or Section 6409.1, 6409.2, 6409.3, or 6410 may...
  • California Labor Code Section 6423
    (a) Except where another penalty is specifically provided, every employer and every officer, management official, or supervisor having direction, management, control, or custody of any...
  • California Labor Code Section 6425
    (a) Any employer and any employee having direction, management, control, or custody of any employment, place of employment, or of any other employee, who willfully...
  • California Labor Code Section 6426
    Whoever knowingly makes any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document filed or required to be maintained pursuant...
  • California Labor Code Section 6427
    Any employer who violates any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, and the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6428
    Any employer who violates any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, if that...
  • California Labor Code Section 6428.5
    An employer's injury prevention program shall be deemed to be operative for the purposes of Sections 6427 and 6428 if it meets the criteria for...
  • California Labor Code Section 6429
    (a) Any employer who willfully or repeatedly violates any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the Health and...
  • California Labor Code Section 6430
    (a) Any employer who fails to correct a violation of any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6431
    Any employer who violates any of the posting or recordkeeping requirements as prescribed by regulations adopted pursuant to Sections 6408 and 6410, or who fails...
  • California Labor Code Section 6432
    (a) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a "serious violation" exists in a place of employment if the division demonstrates that there is a...
  • California Labor Code Section 6433
    The civil penalties set forth in Sections 6427 to 6431, inclusive, shall not be considered as other penalties specifically provided within the meaning of Section
  • California Labor Code Section 6434
    (a) Any civil or administrative penalty assessed pursuant to this chapter against a school district, county board of education, county superintendent of schools, charter school,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6434.5
    (a) Any civil or administrative penalty assessed pursuant to this chapter against a public police or city, county, or special district fire department or the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6435
    (a) Any employer who violates any of the requirements of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 6500) of this part shall be assessed a civil penalty...
  • California Labor Code Section 6436
    The criminal complaint regarding a violation of Section 6505.5 may be brought by the Attorney General or by the district attorney or prosecuting attorney of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6450
    (a) Any employer may apply to the division for a temporary order granting a variance from an occupational safety or health standard. Such temporary order...
  • California Labor Code Section 6451
    An application for a temporary order under Section 6450 shall contain all of the following: (a) A specification of the standard or portion thereof from...
  • California Labor Code Section 6452
    The division is authorized to grant a temporary variance from any standard or portion thereof whenever it determines such variance is necessary to permit an...
  • California Labor Code Section 6454
    The division may, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6455
    Any employer or other person adversely affected by the granting or denial of a temporary variance may appeal to the standards board within 15 working...
  • California Labor Code Section 6456
    A decision of the standards board on a variance appeal is binding on the director and the division with respect to the parties involved in...
  • California Labor Code Section 6457
    The standards board shall conduct hearings and render decisions on appeals of decisions of the division relating to allowance or denial of temporary variances. All...
  • California Labor Code Section 6500
    (a) For those employments or places of employment that by their nature involve a substantial risk of injury, the division shall require the issuance of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6501
    Any employer subject to Section 6500 shall apply to the division for a permit pursuant to Section 6500. Such application for a permit shall contain...
  • California Labor Code Section 6501.5
    Effective January 1, 1987, any employer or contractor who engages in asbestos-related work, as defined in Section 6501.8, and which involves 100 square feet or...
  • California Labor Code Section 6501.7
    "Asbestos" means fibrous forms of various hydrated minerals, including chrysotile (fibrous serpentine), crocidolite (fibrous riebecktite), amosite (fibrous cummingtonite--grunerite), fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and fibrous anthophyllite.
  • California Labor Code Section 6501.8
    (a) For purposes of this chapter, "asbestos-related work" means any activity which by disturbing asbestos-containing construction materials may release asbestos fibers into the air and...
  • California Labor Code Section 6501.9
    The owner of a commercial or industrial building or structure, employer, or contractor who engages in, or contracts for, asbestos-related work shall make a good...
  • California Labor Code Section 6502
    The division may issue a permit based on a determination the employer has demonstrated evidence that the conditions, practices, means, methods, operations or processes used...
  • California Labor Code Section 6503
    A safety conference shall include representatives of the owner or contracting agency, the contractor, the employer, employees and employee representatives. The safety conference shall include...
  • California Labor Code Section 6503.5
    A safety conference shall be held for all asbestos handling jobs prior to the start of actual work. It shall include representatives of the owner...
  • California Labor Code Section 6504
    Any employer issued a permit pursuant to this chapter shall post a copy or copies of the permit pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 6408.
  • California Labor Code Section 6505
    The division may at any time, upon good cause being shown therefor, and after notice and an opportunity to be heard revoke any permit issued...
  • California Labor Code Section 6505.5
    (a) The division may, upon good cause shown, and after notice to the employer or contractor by the division and an opportunity to be heard,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6506
    (a) Any employer denied a permit upon application, or whose permit is revoked, may appeal such denial or revocation to the director. (b) The filing...
  • California Labor Code Section 6507
    The division shall set a fee to be charged for such permits in an amount reasonably necessary to cover the costs involved in investigating and...
  • California Labor Code Section 6508
    No permit shall be required of the State of California, a city, city and county, county, district, or public utility subject to the jurisdiction of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6508.5
    No entity shall be exempt from registration. The State of California, a city, city and county, county, district, or public utility subject to the jurisdiction...
  • California Labor Code Section 6509
    Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 6509.5
    (a) If an asbestos consultant has made an inspection for the purpose of determining the presence of asbestos or the need for related remedial action...
  • California Labor Code Section 6510
    (a) If, after inspection or investigation, the division finds that an employer, without a valid permit, is engaging in activity for which a permit is...
  • California Labor Code Section 6600
    Any employer served with a citation or notice pursuant to Section 6317, or a notice of proposed penalty under this part, or any other person...
  • California Labor Code Section 6600.5
    Any employer served with a special order or any action order by the division pursuant to Section 6308, or any other person obligated to the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6601
    If within 15 working days from receipt of the citation or notice of civil penalty issued by the division, the employer fails to notify the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6601.5
    If, within 15 working days from receipt of a special order, or action order by the division, the employer fails to notify the appeals board...
  • California Labor Code Section 6602
    If an employer notifies the appeals board that he or she intends to contest a citation issued under Section 6317, or notice of proposed penalty...
  • California Labor Code Section 6603
    (a) The rules of practice and procedure adopted by the appeals board shall be consistent with Article 8 (commencing with Section 11435.05) of Chapter 4.5...
  • California Labor Code Section 6604
    The appeals board may, in accordance with rules of practice and procedure which it shall adopt, direct and order a hearing officer: (a) To try...
  • California Labor Code Section 6605
    The appeals board may appoint one or more hearing officers in any proceeding, as it may deem necessary or advisable, and may defer, remove to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6606
    Any party to the proceeding may object to the reference of the proceeding to a particular hearing officer upon any one or more of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6607
    Before entering upon his duties, the hearing officer shall be sworn, before an officer authorized to administer oaths, faithfully and fairly to hear and determine...
  • California Labor Code Section 6608
    The appeals board or a hearing officer shall, within 30 days after the case is submitted, make and file findings upon all facts involved in...
  • California Labor Code Section 6609
    Within 30 days after the filing of the findings, decision, or order, the appeals board may confirm, adopt, modify or set aside the findings, order,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6610
    Any notice, order, or decision required by this part to be served upon any person either before, during, or after the institution of any proceeding...
  • California Labor Code Section 6611
    (a) If the employer fails to appear, the appeals board may dismiss the appeal or may take action upon the employer's express admissions or upon...
  • California Labor Code Section 6612
    No informality in any proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony shall invalidate any order, decision, or finding made and filed as specified in...
  • California Labor Code Section 6613
    The appeals board, a hearing officer, or any party to the action or proceeding, may, in any investigation or hearing before the appeals board, cause...
  • California Labor Code Section 6614
    (a) At any time within 30 days after the service of any final order or decision made and filed by the appeals board or a...
  • California Labor Code Section 6615
    No cause of action arising out of any final order or decision made and filed by the appeals board or a hearing officer shall accrue...
  • California Labor Code Section 6616
    The petition for reconsideration shall set forth specifically and in full detail the grounds upon which the petitioner considers the final order or decision made...
  • California Labor Code Section 6617
    The petition for reconsideration may be based upon one or more of the following grounds and no other: (a) That by such order or decision...
  • California Labor Code Section 6618
    The petitioner for reconsideration shall be deemed to have finally waived all objections, irregularities, and illegalities concerning the matter upon which the reconsideration is sought...
  • California Labor Code Section 6619
    A copy of the petition for reconsideration shall be served forthwith upon all parties by the person petitioning for reconsideration. Any party may file an...
  • California Labor Code Section 6620
    Upon the filing of a petition for reconsideration, or having granted reconsideration upon its own motion, the appeals board may, with or without further proceedings...
  • California Labor Code Section 6621
    If at the time of granting reconsideration, it appears to the satisfaction of the appeals board that no sufficient reason exists for taking further testimony,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6622
    After the taking of additional evidence and a consideration of all of the facts the appeals board may affirm, rescind, alter, or amend the original...
  • California Labor Code Section 6623
    Any decision of the appeals board granting or denying a petition for reconsideration or affirming, rescinding, altering, or amending the original findings, order, or decision...
  • California Labor Code Section 6624
    A petition for reconsideration is deemed to have been denied by the appeals board unless it is acted upon within 45 days from the date...
  • California Labor Code Section 6625
    The filing of a petition for reconsideration shall suspend for a period of 10 days the order or decision affected, insofar as it applies to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6626
    Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the appeals board, on petition of an aggrieved party or on its own motion, from...
  • California Labor Code Section 6627
    Any person affected by an order or decision of the appeals board may, within the time limit specified in this section, apply to the superior...
  • California Labor Code Section 6628
    The writ of mandate shall be made returnable at a time and place then or thereafter specified by court order and shall direct the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 6629
    The review by the court shall not be extended further than to determine, based upon the entire record which shall be certified by the appeals...
  • California Labor Code Section 6630
    The findings and conclusions of the appeals board on questions of fact are conclusive and final and are not subject to review. Such questions of...
  • California Labor Code Section 6631
    The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to writs of mandate shall, so far as applicable, apply to proceedings in the courts under...
  • California Labor Code Section 6632
    No court of this state, except the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, and the superior court to the extent herein specified, has jurisdiction to...
  • California Labor Code Section 6633
    The filing of a petition for, or the pendency of, a writ of mandate shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of any...
  • California Labor Code Section 6650
    (a) After the expiration of the period during which a penalty may be appealed, no appeal having been filed, the department may file with the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6651
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 340 of the Code of Civil Procedure, an action to collect any civil penalty, fee, or penalty fee under this division shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 6652
    The division shall provide the Contractors' State License Board with a certified copy of every notice of civil penalty deemed to be a final order...
  • California Labor Code Section 6700
    (a) Any employer who causes or allows the use of any flammable or combustible material for the installation acceptance pressure test of any gas houseline...
  • California Labor Code Section 6701
    It shall be the duty of the standards board to determine by the maximum allowable standards of emissions of contaminants from portable and from mobile...
  • California Labor Code Section 6702
    All portable and all mobile internal combustion engines that are used inside factories, manufacturing plants, warehouses, buildings and other enclosed structures shall be equipped with...
  • California Labor Code Section 6703
    Sections 6701 and 6702 shall apply to all portable and all mobile internal combustion engines used inside factories, manufacturing plants, warehouses, buildings and other enclosed...
  • California Labor Code Section 6704
    All crawler and wheel cranes with cable-controlled booms and with rated lifting capacity of more than 10 tons sold or operated in this state shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 6705
    No contract for public works involving an estimated expenditure in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), for the excavation of any trench or trenches five...
  • California Labor Code Section 6705.5
    Regulations of the department requiring the shoring, bracing, or sloping of excavations, or which contain similar requirements for excavations, shall only apply to the excavation...
  • California Labor Code Section 6706
    For the purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 6500, only one permit shall be required for a project involving several trenches or excavations. The provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 6707
    Whenever the state, a county, city and county, or city issues a call for bids for the construction of a pipeline, sewer, sewage disposal system,...
  • California Labor Code Section 6708
    Every contractor on a construction project, including but not limited to any public works, shall maintain adequate emergency first aid treatment for his employees. As...
  • California Labor Code Section 6710
    (a) At every place of employment where explosives are used in the course of employment, there shall be a person licensed pursuant to the provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 6711
    (a) The division shall develop and administer an oral and written examination for persons using explosives, as defined in Section 6710, while engaged in snow...
  • California Labor Code Section 6712
    (a) The standards board shall, no later than December 1, 1991, adopt an occupational safety and health standard for field sanitation. The standard shall comply...
  • California Labor Code Section 6716
    For the purposes of this division, "lead-related construction work" means any of the following: (a) Any construction, alteration, painting, demolition, salvage, renovation, repair, or maintenance...
  • California Labor Code Section 6717
    (a) On or before February 1, 1994, the division shall propose to the standards board for its review and adoption, a standard that protects the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6718
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any test procedures adopted by a state agency to determine compliance with vapor emission standards, by vapor recovery systems...
  • California Labor Code Section 6719
    The Legislature reaffirms its concern over the prevalence of repetitive motion injuries in the workplace and reaffirms the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board's continuing...
  • California Labor Code Section 6800
    The division has jurisdiction over: (a) The safety and health of railroad employees employed in offices and in shops devoted to the construction, maintenance or...
  • California Labor Code Section 6801
    The jurisdiction vested in the division shall in no instance, except those affecting exclusively the safety of employees, impair, diminish, or in any way affect...
  • California Labor Code Section 6802
    If the division makes or issues any order, decision, ruling or direction under this chapter which, in the judgment of the Public Utilities Commission, unduly...
  • California Labor Code Section 6900
    Notwithstanding Section 6800, the Public Utilities Commission shall enforce the provisions of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 6900.1
    This Act shall be known and cited as the Railroad Anti-Featherbedding Law of 1964.
  • California Labor Code Section 6900.5
    It is the policy of the people of the State of California that featherbedding practices in the railroad industry should be eliminated and that national...
  • California Labor Code Section 6901
    (a) No common carrier operating more than four trains each way per day of 24 hours on any main track or branch line of railroad...
  • California Labor Code Section 6902
    (a) For purposes of this section, "revenue service" means passenger train service during which passengers are carried or are scheduled to be carried. (b) For...
  • California Labor Code Section 6904
    Nothing in this chapter shall apply to a locomotive or locomotives without cars, except that each locomotive shall have one engineer and one fireman when...
  • California Labor Code Section 6905
    This chapter shall not apply to any relief or wrecking train in any case where a number of employees sufficient to comply with this chapter...
  • California Labor Code Section 6906
    No common carrier shall employ any person as: (a) A locomotive engineer who has not had at least three years' actual service as a locomotive...
  • California Labor Code Section 6907
    Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the running or operating of locomotives or motor power cars to and from trains at terminals by hostlers...
  • California Labor Code Section 6908
    Any violation of this chapter is a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 6909
    Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the operation of any train by a common carrier during times of strikes or walkouts, participated in by...
  • California Labor Code Section 6910
    Nothing in this chapter shall apply to gasoline motor cars operated exclusively on branch lines or to trains of less than three cars propelled by
  • California Labor Code Section 6950
    On any railroad train where the engine is accompanied by a tender of the Vanderbilt or similar type of construction and where the clearance between...
  • California Labor Code Section 6951
    Any railroad company operating a line in whole or in part within this state, or any receiver of any railroad, that fails to comply with...
  • California Labor Code Section 6952
    Every railroad company operating engines within any part of this state shall provide each engine cab with a substantial and safe handrail along the top...
  • California Labor Code Section 6953
    Any electric car operated in interurban service and any electric locomotive shall be equipped exclusively with laminated safety glass in the compartment of the motorman...
  • California Labor Code Section 6954
    On and after the first day of September, 1946, it shall be unlawful to operate any electric car in interurban service or any electric locomotive...
  • California Labor Code Section 6955
    Laminated safety glass is glass so treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 6956
    Any common carrier violating Sections 6953 or 6954 is guilty of a misdemeanor for each violation, punishable by a fine of not less than two...
  • California Labor Code Section 7000
    As used in this section "caboose" means a caboose forming a part of a train and occupied by employees or caretakers, or both. If conditions...
  • California Labor Code Section 7100
    As used in this article, "building" means any multifloor building, other than structural steel framed building, more than two stories high in the course of
  • California Labor Code Section 7101
    Every building shall have the joists, beams, or girders of floors below the floor or level where any work is being done, or about to...
  • California Labor Code Section 7102
    Every building which is of reinforced concrete construction, with reinforced concrete floors, shall have the floor filled in, either with forms or concrete, on each...
  • California Labor Code Section 7103
    Every building having wooden floors other than a steel frame building shall have the underflooring, if double flooring is to be used, laid on each...
  • California Labor Code Section 7104
    If a span of a floor on a building exceeds 13 feet, an intermediate beam shall be used to support the temporary flooring, but spans...
  • California Labor Code Section 7105
    If building operations are suspended and the temporary flooring required by this article is removed, the building shall be replanked upon the resumption of work...
  • California Labor Code Section 7106
    Where a building is being constructed in sections each section constitutes a building for the purpose of this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 7107
    Planked floors on buildings shall be tightly laid together of proper thickness, grade and span to carry the working load; such working load to be...
  • California Labor Code Section 7108
    Safety belts and nets shall be required in accordance with Article 24 (commencing with Section 1669) of subchapter 4 of Chapter 4 of Part 1...
  • California Labor Code Section 7109
    No person shall proceed with any work assigned to or undertaken by him, or require or permit any other person to proceed with work assigned...
  • California Labor Code Section 7110
    The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall enforce this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 7150
    As used in this article, "scaffolding" includes scaffolding and staging.
  • California Labor Code Section 7151
    If the working platform of any scaffolding swung or suspended from an overhead support is more than 10 feet above the ground, floor or area...
  • California Labor Code Section 7152
    In addition to the duties imposed by any law regulating or relating to scaffolding, an employer who uses or permits the use of scaffolding described...
  • California Labor Code Section 7153
    Platforms or floors of such scaffolding shall be not less than 14 inches in width and shall be free from knots or fractures impairing their
  • California Labor Code Section 7154.1
    The use of lean-to scaffolds, sometimes known as jack scaffolds, as support for scaffolds is hereby prohibited.
  • California Labor Code Section 7155
    Violation of any provision of section 7151 to 7154 inclusive is a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 7156
    Any person employing or directing another to do or perform any labor in the construction, alteration, repairing, painting, or cleaning of any house, building, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7157
    The division may make and enforce safety orders in the manner prescribed by law, to supplement and carry into effect the purposes and provisions of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7158
    The division shall enforce the provisions of this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 7200
    As used in this article: (a) "Construction elevator" includes any means used to hoist persons or material of any kind on a building under course...
  • California Labor Code Section 7201
    Every construction elevator used in buildings shall have a system of signals for the purpose of signaling the person operating or controlling the machinery which...
  • California Labor Code Section 7202
    The person in charge of a building shall appoint one or more persons to give such signals. Such person shall be selected from those most...
  • California Labor Code Section 7203
    The board shall make, and may from time to time amend, general safety orders in the manner prescribed by law. Such orders shall specify and...
  • California Labor Code Section 7204
    The division shall inspect all construction elevators. If any part of the construction or system of signals used on a construction elevator is defective or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7205
    Any person, or the agent or officer thereof, who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7250
    As used in this article "building" means any multifloor structural steel framed building more than two stories high in the course of construction.
  • California Labor Code Section 7251
    As defined above, these provisions shall apply to buildings erected in tiers or stories and shall not apply to steel framed buildings having large open...
  • California Labor Code Section 7252
    The derrick or working floor of every building shall be solidly decked over its entire surface except for access openings.
  • California Labor Code Section 7253
    There shall be a tight and substantial temporary floor within two floors below and directly under that portion of each tier of beams on which...
  • California Labor Code Section 7254
    Temporary floors shall be wood planking of proper thickness, grade and span to carry the working load, but shall not be less than two inches...
  • California Labor Code Section 7255
    Provision shall be made to secure temporary flooring against displacement by strong winds or other forces.
  • California Labor Code Section 7256
    Planks shall extend a minimum of 12 inches beyond centerline of their supports at each end.
  • California Labor Code Section 7257
    Wire mesh or plywood (exterior grade) shall be used to cover openings adjacent to columns where planks do not fit tightly.
  • California Labor Code Section 7258
    Metal decking where used in lieu of wood planking shall be of equivalent strength and shall be laid tightly and secured to prevent movement.
  • California Labor Code Section 7259
    Floor planks that are temporarily removed for any reason whatsoever shall be replaced as soon as work requiring their removal is completed or the open...
  • California Labor Code Section 7260
    Prior to removal of temporary floor plank, employees shall be instructed by assigned supervision the steps to be taken to perform the work safely and...
  • California Labor Code Section 7261
    When gathering and stacking temporary floor plank on a lower floor, in preparation for transferring such plank for use on an upper working floor, the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7262
    When gathering and stacking temporary floor planks from the last panel, the steel erector's personnel assigned to such work shall be protected by safety belts...
  • California Labor Code Section 7263
    The sequence of erection, bolting, temporary guying, riveting and welding shall be such as to maintain the stability of the structural frame at all times...
  • California Labor Code Section 7264
    Where a building is being constructed in sections, each section constitutes a building as defined in Section 7250.
  • California Labor Code Section 7265
    Safety belts and nets shall be required in accordance with Article 24 (commencing with Section 1669) of subchapter 4 of Chapter 4 of Part 1...
  • California Labor Code Section 7266
    No person shall proceed with any work assigned to or undertaken by him, or require or permit any other person to proceed with work assigned...
  • California Labor Code Section 7267
    The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall enforce this article.
  • California Labor Code Section 7300
    The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to promote public safety awareness and to assure,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7300.1
    As used in this chapter: (a) "ASCE 21" means the Automated People Mover Standards, as adopted by the American Society of Civil Engineers. (b) "ASME...
  • California Labor Code Section 7300.2
    Except as provided in Section 7300.3, this chapter covers the design, erection, construction, installation, material alteration, inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, service, and operation of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7300.3
    Equipment not covered by this chapter includes the following: (a) Material hoists within the scope of standard A10.5 as adopted by the American National Standards...
  • California Labor Code Section 7300.4
    This chapter does not apply to work that is not related to standards for conveyances that are (a) incorporated in codes promulgated by the American...
  • California Labor Code Section 7301
    No conveyance shall be operated in this state unless a permit for its operation is issued by or in behalf of the division, and unless...
  • California Labor Code Section 7301.1
    (a) On and after June 30, 2003, no conveyance may be erected, constructed, installed, or materially altered, as defined by regulation of the division, unless...
  • California Labor Code Section 7301.5
    (a) The standards board shall adopt regulations pertaining to conveyances, including, but not limited to, conveyance emergency and signal devices, and the operation of conveyances...
  • California Labor Code Section 7302
    The operation of a conveyance without a permit by any person owning or having the custody, management, or control of the operation of the conveyance,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7302.1
    (a) Any person who contracts for or authorizes the erection, construction, installation, or material alteration of a conveyance without a permit in violation of Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 7302.2
    The division may assess a civil penalty of not more than seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) against any person, and against any employer or contractor, who...
  • California Labor Code Section 7303
    (a) Whenever any conveyance is operated without a current valid permit issued pursuant to Section 7304, and is in a condition that its use is...
  • California Labor Code Section 7304
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the division shall cause all conveyances to be inspected at least once each year. If a conveyance is...
  • California Labor Code Section 7305
    If inspection shows that a conveyance is in an unsafe condition, the division may issue a preliminary order requiring repairs or alterations to be made...
  • California Labor Code Section 7306
    Unless the preliminary order is complied with, a hearing before the division shall be allowed, upon request, at which the owner, operator, or other person...
  • California Labor Code Section 7307
    (a) If it thereafter appears to the division that the conveyance is unsafe and that the requirements contained in the preliminary order should be complied...
  • California Labor Code Section 7308
    If the operation of a conveyance during the making of repairs or alterations is not immediately dangerous to the safety of persons, the division may...
  • California Labor Code Section 7309
    The division may cause the inspection herein provided for to be made either by its safety inspectors or by any qualified elevator inspector employed by...
  • California Labor Code Section 7309.1
    (a) On and after June 30, 2003, no conveyance subject to this chapter shall be reinspected by any person unless the person is a conveyance...
  • California Labor Code Section 7310
    The division may also issue its permit or a permit may be issued on its behalf based upon a certificate of inspection issued by a...
  • California Labor Code Section 7311
    All persons inspecting conveyances shall first secure from the division a certificate of competency to make those inspections. The division may determine the competency of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7311.1
    (a) On and after June 30, 2003, no conveyance subject to this chapter shall be erected, constructed, installed, materially altered, tested, maintained, repaired, or serviced...
  • California Labor Code Section 7311.2
    (a) On and after June 30, 2003, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 7301.5, any person who, without supervision, erects, constructs,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7311.25
    (a) The following meanings apply for purposes of this section: (1) "Agricultural production, processing, and handling facilities" includes grain elevators, feed mills, flour mills, rice...
  • California Labor Code Section 7311.3
    (a) A certificate issued by the division to the certified qualified conveyance inspector, certified qualified conveyance company, or certified competent conveyance mechanic as set forth...
  • California Labor Code Section 7311.4
    (a) The division shall establish fees for initial and renewal applications for certification under this chapter as a certified qualified conveyance inspector, certified qualified conveyance...
  • California Labor Code Section 7311.5
    (a) A person, firm, or corporation that maintains and repairs solely special purpose personnel elevators on cranes that utilize a rack and pinion system in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7312
    The division may at any time, upon good cause being shown therefor, and after notice and an opportunity to be heard, revoke any permit to...
  • California Labor Code Section 7313
    Each conveyance inspector shall, within 21 days after he or she makes an inspection, forward to the division on forms provided by it, a report...
  • California Labor Code Section 7314
    (a) The division may fix and collect fees for the inspection of conveyances as it deems necessary to cover the actual costs of having the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7315
    Fees shall be paid before the issuance of any permit to operate a conveyance, but a temporary permit may be issued pending receipt of fee...
  • California Labor Code Section 7316
    All fees collected by the division under this chapter shall be paid into the Elevator Safety Account which is hereby created for the administration of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7317
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the following conveyances are exempt from this chapter: (1) Conveyances under the jurisdiction of the United States government....
  • California Labor Code Section 7318
    Nothing in this chapter limits the authority of the division to prescribe or enforce general or special safety orders.
  • California Labor Code Section 7319
    All elevators used for the carriage of passengers shall be provided with a suitable seat for the operator in charge. Failure to comply with this...
  • California Labor Code Section 7320
    The division may assess a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) against any person owning or having custody, management, or control of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7321
    (a) The division may assess a civil penalty not to exceed seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) against any person owning or having custody, management, or control...
  • California Labor Code Section 7321.5
    The division shall enforce Sections 7320 and 7321 by issuance of a citation and notice of civil penalty in a manner consistent with Sections 6317...
  • California Labor Code Section 7322
    (a) Once an authorized representative of the division has issued an order prohibiting the use of a conveyance as specified in Sections 7301, 7305, 7314,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7323
    The division shall propose to the standards board for review, and the standards board shall adopt, regulations for the equipment covered by this chapter. Not...
  • California Labor Code Section 7324
    Individuals, firms, or companies certified as described in this chapter shall ensure that installation, service, and maintenance of conveyances are performed in compliance with the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7324.1
    This chapter shall not be construed to relieve or lessen the responsibility or liability of any person, firm, or corporation owning, operating, controlling, maintaining, erecting,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7324.2
    The provisions of this chapter added or amended by the act enacting this section shall not be applied retroactively. Equipment subject to this chapter shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 7325
    "Building," as used in this chapter, means any building three stories or more in height, and whether heretofore constructed or hereafter to be constructed, including...
  • California Labor Code Section 7326
    There shall be securely attached to the outside window sills or frames of the window of any building, rings, bolts, lugs, fittings, or other devices...
  • California Labor Code Section 7327
    In lieu of the safety devices enumerated in Section 7326, the division may approve the installation or use of any other devices or means which...
  • California Labor Code Section 7328
    Any person employing, directing or permitting another to do or perform any labor upon any windows which have not the safety devices as provided for...
  • California Labor Code Section 7329
    Every person owning or entitled to possession, under any lease, sublease, or agreement for a longer period than one year, or under any renewal lease,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7330
    Every person who fails to provide the safety devices as set forth in this chapter upon any building hereafter to be constructed, and who thereafter...
  • California Labor Code Section 7331
    The division may make and enforce such safety orders and rules as it considers necessary and proper to carry into effect the purposes and provisions...
  • California Labor Code Section 7332
    The division shall enforce the provisions of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 7340
    As used in this chapter: (a) "Aerial passenger tramway" includes any method or device used primarily for the purpose of transporting persons by means of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7341
    No aerial passenger tramway shall be operated in any place in this state unless a permit for the operation thereof is issued by the division,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7342
    The operation of an aerial passenger tramway by any person owning or having the custody, management, or operation thereof without a permit is a misdemeanor,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7343
    Whenever an aerial passenger tramway in any place is being operated without the permit herein required, and is in such condition that its use is...
  • California Labor Code Section 7344
    (a) The division shall cause all aerial passenger tramways to be inspected at least two times each year. (b) At least one of the inspections...
  • California Labor Code Section 7345
    If inspection shows an aerial passenger tramway to be in an unsafe condition, the division may issue a preliminary order requiring repairs or alterations to...
  • California Labor Code Section 7346
    Unless the preliminary order is complied with, a hearing before the division shall be allowed, upon request, at which the owner, operator, or other person...
  • California Labor Code Section 7347
    If it thereafter appears to the division that the aerial passenger tramway is unsafe and that the requirements contained in the preliminary order should be...
  • California Labor Code Section 7348
    If the operation of an aerial passenger tramway during the making of repairs or alterations is not immediately dangerous to the safety of employees or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7349
    The inspection herein provided for shall be made by a division safety engineer or, on ski lifts, by a certified tramway inspector qualified under Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 7350
    (a) The division may fix and collect fees for the inspection of aerial passenger tramways as it deems necessary to cover the actual cost of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7351
    Fees shall be paid before issuance of a permit to operate an aerial passenger tramway, except that the division, at its own discretion, may issue...
  • California Labor Code Section 7352
    All fees collected by the division under this chapter shall be deposited into the Elevator Safety Account to support the division' s aerial passenger tramway...
  • California Labor Code Section 7353
    No aerial passenger tramway shall be constructed or altered until the plans and design information have been properly certified to the division by an engineer...
  • California Labor Code Section 7354
    The division shall not issue an operating permit to operate an aerial passenger tramway until it receives certification in writing by an engineer qualified under...
  • California Labor Code Section 7354.5
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any case in which an insurer admitted to transact insurance in this state has inspected or caused...
  • California Labor Code Section 7355
    Nothing in the foregoing sections of this chapter shall limit the authority of the division to prescribe or enforce general or special safety orders.
  • California Labor Code Section 7356
    The division shall, under the authority of Section 7355, promulgate and cause to be published safety orders directing each owner or operator of an aerial...
  • California Labor Code Section 7357
    The division shall establish standards for the qualification of persons engaged in the operation of aerial passenger tramways, whether as employees or otherwise. The standards...
  • California Labor Code Section 7370
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that recent statewide spot inspections of cranes have uncovered a pattern of numerous safety violations so serious and pervasive...
  • California Labor Code Section 7371
    As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Crane" means a machine for lifting or lowering a load and moving it horizontally,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7372
    (a) The division shall employ safety engineers trained to inspect tower cranes. (b) The division shall establish a safety inspection program for all tower cranes...
  • California Labor Code Section 7373
    (a) No tower crane shall be operated at any worksite unless an employer obtains a permit from the division. The division shall conduct an investigation...
  • California Labor Code Section 7374
    (a) The division may suspend or revoke the permit of a crane where the employer engages in gross negligence, gross incompetence, or willful or repeated...
  • California Labor Code Section 7375
    (a) The division shall adopt regulations for the certification of all cranes and derricks used in lifting service, exceeding three tons rated capacity. Tower cranes...
  • California Labor Code Section 7376
    (a) The division shall suspend or revoke a license to certify for the following reasons: (1) Gross negligence, gross incompetency, a pattern of incompetence, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7377
    Revocation of a license to certify may be appealed to the Director of Industrial Relations.
  • California Labor Code Section 7378
    A licensed certifier who fraudulently certifies that a crane is in compliance with the criteria established by the division under subdivision (a) of Section 7375...
  • California Labor Code Section 7379
    It shall be a misdemeanor for an individual to engage in the certification of a crane as specified in this chapter if that individual is...
  • California Labor Code Section 7380
    The division may collect fees for the examination and licensing of crane certifiers as necessary to cover the actual costs, including administrative costs. All fees...
  • California Labor Code Section 7381
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 6319 and 6425, if serious injury or death is caused by any serious or willful repeated violation of a crane standard, order,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7382
    No person shall install or dismantle a tower crane, or increase the height of a crane, known in the construction trade as "jumping or climbing...
  • California Labor Code Section 7383
    (a) The division shall require all crane employers to disclose all of their previous business identities within the previous 10 years. The disclosure shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 7384
    The division shall prepare an annual report concerning revenues obtained from all funding sources and expenditures. The division shall file the report with the Legislative...
  • California Labor Code Section 7500
    In all mines operated in the State where a depth of more than five hundred feet underground has been reached, a telephone system shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 7501
    The failure or refusal of any owner or lessee to install or maintain such telephone system is a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 7600
    Every person who is engaged in the business of loading or unloading ships or vessels, or who is authorized or contracts to load or unload...
  • California Labor Code Section 7601
    Handtrucks shall be maintained in a safe condition by the employer. Handles shall be maintained free of hazardous burrs, splinters, cracks or splits.
  • California Labor Code Section 7602
    Handtools shall be kept in good condition and be safely stored by the employer. Unsafe handtools shall not be used.
  • California Labor Code Section 7603
    The maximum weight of materials stored on building floors or load-carrying platforms, except those built directly on the ground, shall not exceed their safe carrying...
  • California Labor Code Section 7604
    Adequate and substantial bull rails, stringer rails or curbs shall be installed at the waterside of all flush aprons on such wharves, docks or piers...
  • California Labor Code Section 7605
    The employer shall require that tools, machinery, gear and other equipment subject to wear be inspected at adequate intervals and unsafe conditions corrected. If tools,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7606
    Every dock plate shall be constructed and maintained with strength sufficient to support the load carried thereon. Dock plates shall be secured in position when...
  • California Labor Code Section 7607
    Internal combustion engine-driven equipment shall be operated inside of buildings or enclosed structures only when such operation does not result in harmful exposure to concentration...
  • California Labor Code Section 7608
    Any person who violates any provisions of this part is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  • California Labor Code Section 7609
    The provisions of Sections 7601 to 7607, inclusive, shall be applicable to longshore and stevedore operations.
  • California Labor Code Section 7611
    Nothing in the foregoing sections of this part shall limit the authority of the division to prescribe or enforce general or special safety orders.
  • California Labor Code Section 7620
    "Division," as used in this part, means the Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
  • California Labor Code Section 7621
    "Boiler" as used in this part means any fired or unfired pressure vessel used to generate steam pressure by the application of heat subject to...
  • California Labor Code Section 7622
    "Tank" as used in this part, means any unfired pressure vessel, subject to this part, used for the storage of air pressure or liquefied petroleum...
  • California Labor Code Section 7623
    This part applies to all boilers and tanks which are not specifically exempted in this chapter, or by the general safety orders of the division...
  • California Labor Code Section 7624
    The following tanks are not subject to this part: (a) Tanks under the jurisdiction or inspection of the United States government. (b) Air pressure tanks...
  • California Labor Code Section 7625
    The following steam boilers are not subject to this part: (a) Boilers under the jurisdiction or inspection of the United States Government, and all other...
  • California Labor Code Section 7626
    This part does not limit the authority of the division to prescribe or enforce general or special safety orders.
  • California Labor Code Section 7650
    Inspections required by this part shall be made either by qualified safety engineers employed by the division or by certified inspectors; provided, however, that shop...
  • California Labor Code Section 7651
    A certificate of competency may be obtained by application made to the division.
  • California Labor Code Section 7652
    The division may determine by examination the competency of an applicant for a certificate of competency.
  • California Labor Code Section 7652.5
    Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, a certified inspector employed by an insurer or by an employer for the purpose of inspecting only tanks...
  • California Labor Code Section 7653
    Upon good cause being shown therefor, the division may revoke a certificate of competency.
  • California Labor Code Section 7654
    Where serious conditions are found by certified inspectors that would jeopardize the life, limb, or safety of employees, the reports of inspection shall be made...
  • California Labor Code Section 7655
    The division shall prepare and adopt regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act provided for in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part...
  • California Labor Code Section 7680
    No tank or boiler shall be operated unless a permit for its operation has been issued by or in behalf of the division.
  • California Labor Code Section 7681
    (a) The division shall inspect or cause to be inspected each installed tank at least every five years, except for any tank specified in subdivision...
  • California Labor Code Section 7682
    The division shall inspect or cause to be inspected each installed fired boiler internally and externally at least every year, except that the division may...
  • California Labor Code Section 7683
    (a) If a tank or boiler is found to be in a safe condition for operation, a permit shall be issued by or on behalf...
  • California Labor Code Section 7684
    Each permit or a clear reproduced copy thereof shall be posted in a protective container in a conspicuous place on or near the tank or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7685
    The division may issue and renew temporary permits for not to exceed 30 days each, pending the making of replacements or repairs.
  • California Labor Code Section 7686
    Upon good cause being shown therefor, and after notice and an opportunity to be heard, the division may revoke any permit.
  • California Labor Code Section 7687
    If the inspection shows a tank or boiler to be in an unsafe or dangerous condition, the division may issue a preliminary order requiring such...
  • California Labor Code Section 7688
    Unless the preliminary order is complied with, a hearing before the division shall be allowed, upon request, at which the owner, operator, or other person...
  • California Labor Code Section 7689
    If it thereafter appears to the division that the tank or boiler is unsafe and that the requirements contained in the preliminary order should be...
  • California Labor Code Section 7690
    The order may be reheard by the division, or reviewed by the courts, in the manner specified by this code for safety orders, and not
  • California Labor Code Section 7691
    If the operation of a tank or boiler constitutes a serious menace to the life or safety of any person employed about it, the division...
  • California Labor Code Section 7692
    The certification of the division that no valid permit exists for the operation of a tank or boiler, and the affidavit of any safety engineer...
  • California Labor Code Section 7720
    No fee shall be charged by the division where an inspection is made by a certified inspector; provided, the inspection has been made and reports...
  • California Labor Code Section 7721
    (a) The division may fix and collect fees for the shop, field, and resale inspection of tanks and boilers and for consultations, surveys, audits, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 7722
    The inspection fees collected under this chapter shall be paid into the Pressure Vessel Account, which is hereby created, to be used for the administration...
  • California Labor Code Section 7725
    As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning therein given them. (a) "Small tank" shall mean any tank 1,200 gallons water...
  • California Labor Code Section 7726
    All inspection fees shall be paid before the issuance of a permit.
  • California Labor Code Section 7728
    Whenever an owner or user of any apparatus or equipment fails to pay the fees required under this chapter within 60 days after notification, said...
  • California Labor Code Section 7750
    Except during the time that a request for a permit remains unacted upon, every person owning or having the custody, management, or operation of a...
  • California Labor Code Section 7770
    Every engineer or other person having charge of any steam-boiler, steam-engine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, used in any manufactory, railway, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7771
    Every person having charge of any steam boiler, steam engine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, used in any manufactory, railroad, vessel, or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7800
    "Volatile flammable liquids" as used in this part means any petroleum or liquid product of petroleum or natural gas having a flash point below 100...
  • California Labor Code Section 7801
    "Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board" as used in this part means the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board of the Division of Occupational Safety...
  • California Labor Code Section 7802
    The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall adopt general orders pursuant to Section 6500, to make effective the provisions of this part.
  • California Labor Code Section 7803
    Every employer who engages in any business requiring any employee to handle or use any volatile flammable liquid or to work in the close proximity...
  • California Labor Code Section 7850
    This part shall be known and cited as the California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990.
  • California Labor Code Section 7851
    The Legislature finds and declares that because of the potentially hazardous nature of handling large quantities of chemicals and recent disasters involving chemical handling in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7852
    (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this part, that the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board and the Division of Occupational...
  • California Labor Code Section 7853
    For the purposes of this part, "process safety management" means the application of management programs, which are not limited to engineering guidelines, when dealing with...
  • California Labor Code Section 7855
    The purpose of this chapter is to prevent or minimize the consequences of catastrophic releases of toxic, flammable, or explosive chemicals. The establishment of process...
  • California Labor Code Section 7856
    No later than July 1, 1992, the board shall adopt process safety management standards for refineries, chemical plants, and other manufacturing facilities, as specified in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7857
    The process safety management standards shall include provisions dealing with the items prescribed by Sections 7858 to 7868, inclusive, of this chapter.
  • California Labor Code Section 7858
    The employer shall develop and maintain a compilation of written safety information to enable the employer and the employees operating the process to identify and...
  • California Labor Code Section 7859
    The employer shall perform a hazard analysis for identifying, evaluating, and controlling hazards involved in the process. The employer shall provide for the participation of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7860
    (a) The employer shall develop and implement written operating procedures that provide clear instructions for safely conducting activities involved in each process consistent with the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7861
    (a) Each employee whose primary duties include the operating or maintenance of a process, and each employee prior to assuming operations and maintenance duties in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7862
    (a) The employer shall inform contractors performing work on, or near, a process of the known potential fire, explosion, or toxic release hazards related to...
  • California Labor Code Section 7863
    The employer shall perform a prestartup safety review for new facilities and for modified facilities for which the modification necessitates a change in the process...
  • California Labor Code Section 7864
    The employer shall establish and implement written procedures and inspection and testing programs to maintain the ongoing integrity of process equipment. These programs shall include...
  • California Labor Code Section 7865
    The employer shall develop and implement a written procedure governing the issuance of "hot work" permits. "Hot work" includes electric or gas welding, cutting, brazing,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7866
    The employer shall establish and implement written procedures to manage changes, except for replacements in kind, to process chemicals, technology, and equipment, and to make...
  • California Labor Code Section 7867
    The employer shall establish a written procedure for investigating every incident which results in, or, as determined by board criteria, could reasonably have resulted in,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7868
    The employer shall establish and implement an emergency action plan. The employer may use the business plan for emergency response submitted pursuant to subdivision (a)...
  • California Labor Code Section 7870
    Notwithstanding the availability of federal funds to carry out the purposes of this part, the division may fix and collect reasonable fees for consultation, inspection,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7900
    This part shall be known and may be cited as the Amusement Rides Safety Law.
  • California Labor Code Section 7901
    As used in this part: (a) "Amusement ride" means a mechanical device which carries or conveys passengers along, around, or over a fixed or restricted...
  • California Labor Code Section 7902
    The division shall promulgate and formulate rules and regulations for adoption by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for the safe installation, repair, maintenance,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7903
    The division or a public entity shall not issue the original certificate of inspection for an amusement ride until it receives certification in writing by...
  • California Labor Code Section 7904
    (a) The division may fix and collect fees for the inspection of amusement rides that it deems necessary to cover the actual cost of having...
  • California Labor Code Section 7905
    The division may hire inspectors to inspect amusement rides. The division shall cause the inspection provided by this part to be made by its safety...
  • California Labor Code Section 7906
    No person shall operate an amusement ride without a permit issued by the division or a public entity. On or before March 1 of each...
  • California Labor Code Section 7907
    If, after inspection, an amusement ride is found to comply with the rules and regulations of the division, the division or a public entity shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 7908
    Before a new amusement ride is erected, or whenever any additions or alterations are made which change the structure, mechanism, classification, or capacity of any...
  • California Labor Code Section 7909
    The division may order cessation of operation of an amusement ride and permit revocation if it has been determined after inspection to be hazardous or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7910
    This part shall not be construed to prevent the use of any existing installation which upon inspection is found to be in a safe condition...
  • California Labor Code Section 7911
    If there are practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships for an operator to comply with the rules and regulations under this part, the division may modify...
  • California Labor Code Section 7912
    No person shall operate an amusement ride unless there is in existence and on file with the division a policy of insurance, issued by a...
  • California Labor Code Section 7913
    Nothing contained in this part shall prevent cities, counties, and cities and counties from regulating carnivals or amusement rides, nor prevent them from enacting legislation...
  • California Labor Code Section 7914
    (a) An operator of an amusement ride shall report or cause to be reported to the division immediately by telephone each known incident where the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7915
    (a) Any owner or operator of any amusement ride who fails to comply with any provision of this part or any rule, regulation, or safety...
  • California Labor Code Section 7916
    (a) An owner of an amusement ride shall provide training for its employees in the safe operation and maintenance of amusement rides, as required by...
  • California Labor Code Section 7917
    If the division determines that an owner or operator of an amusement ride subject to this part has willfully or intentionally violated this part or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7918
    The division shall enforce this part by the issuance of a citation and notice of civil penalty in a manner consistent with that specified in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7919
    The division shall adopt rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this part, including, the reporting requirements established under Section 7914.
  • California Labor Code Section 7920
    It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this part to create a state system for the inspection of permanent amusement rides. This part...
  • California Labor Code Section 7921
    As used in this part: (a) "Permanent amusement ride" means a mechanical device, aquatic device, or combination of devices, of a permanent nature that carries...
  • California Labor Code Section 7922
    This part does not apply to any of the following: (a) Any playground operated by a school or local government if the playground is an...
  • California Labor Code Section 7923
    (a) The division shall formulate and propose rules and regulations for adoption by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for the safe installation, repair,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7924
    (a) On an annual basis, each owner of a permanent amusement ride shall submit to the division a certificate of compliance on a form prescribed...
  • California Labor Code Section 7925
    (a) Each operator of a permanent amusement ride shall report or cause to be reported to the division immediately by telephone each known accident where...
  • California Labor Code Section 7926
    (a) A person may operate a permanent amusement ride only if, at the time of operation, one of the following is in existence: (1) The...
  • California Labor Code Section 7927
    Each owner of a permanent amusement ride shall provide training for its employees in the safe operation and maintenance of amusement rides, as required by...
  • California Labor Code Section 7928
    The division shall adopt rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this part. The division may employ qualified safety inspectors as necessary for the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7929
    (a) The division may fix and collect all fees necessary to cover the cost of administering this part. Fees shall be charged to a person...
  • California Labor Code Section 7930
    If the division determines that any owner or operator of a permanent amusement ride subject to this part has willfully or intentionally violated this part...
  • California Labor Code Section 7931
    The division shall enforce this part by the issuance of a citation and notice of civil penalty in a manner consistent with Section 6317. Any...
  • California Labor Code Section 7932
    (a) The provisions of this part relating to annual division inspections shall not apply to any permanent amusement ride located within a county or other...
  • California Labor Code Section 7950
    This part shall be known and may be cited as "The Tom Carrell Memorial Tunnel and Mine Safety Act of 1972."
  • California Labor Code Section 7951
    As used in this part: (a) Tunnel shall include excavation, construction, alteration, repairing, renovating, or demolishing of any tunnel except tunnel work covered under the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7952
    There shall be within the division a separate unit of safety engineers trained to inspect all tunnel construction and mine operations.
  • California Labor Code Section 7953
    Sufficient manpower shall be maintained to provide for four annual inspections of underground mines, one inspection of surface mines or quarries annually, and six inspections...
  • California Labor Code Section 7954
    To assist the unit of safety engineers in determining the safety of tunnel construction and mine operation, the division shall make available at least one...
  • California Labor Code Section 7955
    The division and the owner of a mine, if he is not the operator of the mine, shall be notified before any initial mining operation...
  • California Labor Code Section 7956
    All personnel, including both employees working above ground and those in the tunnel or underground mine, shall be informed of the classification designated by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7957
    An emergency rescue plan shall be developed by the employer for every tunnel or underground mine. Such plan, including a current map of the tunnel...
  • California Labor Code Section 7958
    A trained rescue crew of at least five men shall be provided at underground mines with more than 25 men or tunnels with 10 or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7959
    Rescue crews shall be familiar with all emergency equipment necessary to effect a rescue or search for missing employees in case of an accident or...
  • California Labor Code Section 7960
    In any tunnel or underground mine classified as potentially gassy, tests for gas or vapors shall be made prior to start of work at each...
  • California Labor Code Section 7961
    The division shall investigate immediately any notification of a gas reading 10 percent of the lower explosive limit or higher by an employer in a...
  • California Labor Code Section 7962
    A safety representative qualified to recognize hazardous conditions and certified by the division shall be designated by the employer in any tunnel or underground mine....
  • California Labor Code Section 7963
    All underground mines and tunnels with more than five men underground at one time shall have telephone or other communication systems to the surface in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7964
    Whenever an access shaft is used as the normal means of entrance or exit to an underground mine or tunnel, it shall be constructed of...
  • California Labor Code Section 7964.5
    Nothing contained in this part shall restrict the division in contracting with the Secretary of the Interior for an approved state plan for mines under...
  • California Labor Code Section 7965
    Any tunnel or underground mine classified by the division as gassy shall operate under special procedures adopted by the board, as well as rules, regulations,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7966
    In any tunnel classified as gassy by the division, there shall be tests for gas or vapors taken prior to each shift and at least...
  • California Labor Code Section 7967
    Whenever gas levels in excess of 10 percent of the lower explosive limit are encountered initially in a tunnel or underground mine classified as gassy,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7968
    In any gassy tunnel or underground mine, the division may order work halted until adequate testing can be completed to determine the level of hazard...
  • California Labor Code Section 7969
    In any gassy tunnel or underground mine the division shall review plans for electrical lighting and power for equipment. When it is necessary for safety,...
  • California Labor Code Section 7970
    In any tunnel or underground mine classified gassy, smoking shall be prohibited and the employer shall be responsible for collecting all personal sources of ignition...
  • California Labor Code Section 7971
    Whenever there is any ignition of gas or vapor in a tunnel or underground mine, all work shall cease, employees shall be removed, and reentry...
  • California Labor Code Section 7972
    If the level of gas in any tunnel or underground mine reaches 20 percent of its lower explosive limit at any time all men shall...
  • California Labor Code Section 7973
    In any tunnel or underground mine classified as gassy, all employees shall be informed of any special orders made by the division following an inspection....
  • California Labor Code Section 7974
    In any tunnel classified as gassy by the division, ventilation shall include continuous exhausting of fumes and air, unless an alternative ventilation plan which is...
  • California Labor Code Section 7975
    A "kill" button capable of cutting off all electrical equipment shall be maintained in any gassy tunnel or underground mine. The safety representative or his...
  • California Labor Code Section 7976
    In any tunnel or underground mine classified as gassy, the division shall determine the number of fire extinguishers necessary and their locations.
  • California Labor Code Section 7977
    Any tunnel or underground mine classified as extrahazardous by the division shall comply with the provisions for gassy tunnels in this chapter, as well as...
  • California Labor Code Section 7978
    In any extrahazardous tunnel or underground mine smoking by employees or open flame shall be prohibited. Welding or cutting with arc or flame underground in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7979
    In tunnels or underground mines classified extrahazardous, sufficient air shall be supplied to maintain an atmosphere of all of the following conditions: (a) Not less...
  • California Labor Code Section 7980
    All electrical equipment and machines, including diesel engines, used in tunnels or underground mines classified extrahazardous shall be permissible equipment. The division may, however, permit...
  • California Labor Code Section 7981
    An escape chamber or alternate escape route shall be maintained within 5,000 feet of the tunnel face or areas being used to excavate material in...
  • California Labor Code Section 7982
    Records of air flow and air sample tests to assure compliance with required standards shall be maintained by the employer at the site of any...
  • California Labor Code Section 7983
    The main fan line used for ventilation in any tunnel or underground mine classified extrahazardous shall contain a cutoff switch capable of halting all machinery...
  • California Labor Code Section 7984
    In any tunnel or underground mine classified extrahazardous a device or devices which automatically and continuously test the atmosphere for gases or vapors shall be...
  • California Labor Code Section 7985
    All such testing device or devices shall be U.S. Bureau of Mines approved or acceptable to other authorities recognized by the division and shall automatically...
  • California Labor Code Section 7990
    In any tunnel or mine under jurisdiction of the division, the use of explosives shall be limited to persons licensed by the division.
  • California Labor Code Section 7991
    To obtain a license under Section 7990, and to renew such a license, a person shall pass an oral and written examination given by the...
  • California Labor Code Section 7992
    The board shall determine qualifications for persons seeking an "explosive blaster's license" and rules and regulations for use of explosives in tunnels or mines.
  • California Labor Code Section 7993
    Any person holding an "explosive blaster's license" who is convicted of violating any safety order involving the use or handling of explosives shall have his...
  • California Labor Code Section 7994
    Any person holding an "explosive blaster's license" who is convicted of violating safety orders involving use or handling of explosives in which the violation is...
  • California Labor Code Section 7995
    Any person who has had his "explosive blaster's license" revoked who is subsequently convicted of violations of a safety order involving the use or handling...
  • California Labor Code Section 7996
    All safety equipment required to provide safe employment in tunnels or underground mines shall be U.S. Bureau of Mines approved, or acceptable to other authorities...
  • California Labor Code Section 7997
    The board shall review and update general orders for tunnels and mines at least every two years. Representatives of the unit inspecting tunnels and mines...
  • California Labor Code Section 7998
    The division shall also develop tests, available in English, Spanish, or other languages where a sufficient portion of employees exists to show need, to qualify...
  • California Labor Code Section 7999
    No person shall be qualified to operate as a gas tester, or serve as a safety representative in a tunnel or underground mine unless he...
  • California Labor Code Section 8000
    Requirements established by the board shall preempt local government rules, regulations, and laws requiring certification or licensing as gas testers or safety representatives. However, local...
  • California Labor Code Section 8001
    A fee sufficient to cover costs of examination and certification of gas testers and safety representatives for tunnels and mines, but not more than fifteen...
  • California Labor Code Section 8002
    All fees from such applications shall be nonrefundable. Such fees shall be paid into the State Treasury by the division to the credit of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 8003
    Violation of regulations, rules, orders, or special orders adopted by the board or division as a condition of certification shall be punishable by suspension or...
  • California Labor Code Section 8004
    The provisions of this part shall not apply to the normal operation, maintenance, or repair of any completed tunnels owned or operated by a utility...
  • California Labor Code Section 9000
    This part shall be known and may be cited as the Occupational Carcinogens Control Act of 1976.
  • California Labor Code Section 9001
    The purpose of this part is to clarify and strengthen the provisions of state law applicable to the use of carcinogens in California. It is...
  • California Labor Code Section 9002
    The following definitions shall govern the construction of this part. Additionally, except where the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in Part 1 (commencing with...
  • California Labor Code Section 9003
    "Affected employee" means an employee who, as part of his or her employment, is involved in the use of a carcinogen, or an employee with...
  • California Labor Code Section 9004
    "Carcinogen" means and includes the following recognized cancer-causing substances for which standards have been adopted pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 9020): (a) Any...
  • California Labor Code Section 9005
    "Division" means the Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
  • California Labor Code Section 9006
    "Employer" means any of the following: (a) The state and every state agency. (b) Each county, city, district, and all public and quasi-public corporations and...
  • California Labor Code Section 9007
    "Standards" means standards and orders adopted by the standards board pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 140) of Division 1.
  • California Labor Code Section 9008
    "Standards board" means the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.
  • California Labor Code Section 9009
    "Use" means any use of a carcinogen by an employer, including, but not limited to, the following: (a) Manufacture of a carcinogen, industrial uses thereof,...
  • California Labor Code Section 9015
    Except where in conflict with Section 142.3, or other applicable provisions of law, the standards board may exempt from the provisions of this part and...
  • California Labor Code Section 9020
    (a) Pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 140) of Division 1, the standards board shall adopt standards for carcinogens at least as restrictive as...
  • California Labor Code Section 9021
    All standards relating to the use of carcinogens which are in effect on January 1, 1986, including standards set forth in Sections 5208, 5209, and...
  • California Labor Code Section 9021.5
    (a) Not later than January 1, 1987, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall propose a regulation concerning asbestos-related work, as defined in Section...
  • California Labor Code Section 9021.6
    The division may charge a fee to each asbestos consultant and site surveillance technician who applies for certification pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 9021.5...
  • California Labor Code Section 9021.7
    (a) There is hereby created the Asbestos Training and Consultant Certification Fund, which shall consist of the Asbestos Training Approval Account and the Asbestos Consultant...
  • California Labor Code Section 9021.8
    All asbestos consultant and site surveillance technician certifications shall be renewed annually. The division shall require asbestos consultants and site surveillance technicians to complete the...
  • California Labor Code Section 9021.9
    (a) The division shall establish an advisory committee to develop and recommend by September 30, 1994, for action by the standards board in accordance with...
  • California Labor Code Section 9022
    The division shall have primary responsibility for enforcement of standards relating to carcinogens. However, the State Department of Health Services shall assist the division in...
  • California Labor Code Section 9030
    The standards board shall adopt one or more standards requiring each employer which uses any carcinogen, including asbestos and vinyl chloride, to submit a written...
  • California Labor Code Section 9031
    The division shall transmit a copy of each report specified in Section 9030 to any bargaining representatives, and other representatives known to the division, of...
  • California Labor Code Section 9032
    The division shall make every effort to ascertain the identities of existing users of carcinogens and to notify, inform, and educate them about the requirements...
  • California Labor Code Section 9040
    Every employer using carcinogens shall provide for medical examinations of affected employees where required by standards adopted pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 142.3. The...
  • California Labor Code Section 9050
    The division shall establish priorities for the performance of inspections of premises for which uses have been reported pursuant to Section 9030 and shall perform...
  • California Labor Code Section 9051
    If an authorized representative of the division determines on the basis of an inspection that an employer is using a carcinogen in violation of the...
  • California Labor Code Section 9052
    Upon request of any employer or any employee, or upon its own initiative, the OSHA Consultation Unit of the department shall provide consultation services regarding...
  • California Labor Code Section 9060
    The civil penalties prescribed by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 6423) of Part 1 shall be applicable to violations of standards and special orders regulating...
  • California Labor Code Section 9061
    (a) For purposes of this part, "serious violation" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6432 and, except as provided in subdivision (b), shall additionally...
  • California Labor Code Section 9100
    For purposes of this chapter, "sales floor" means any area where the public is invited to shop, whether indoors or outdoors.
  • California Labor Code Section 9101
    For purposes of this chapter, "working warehouse" means a wholesale or retail establishment in which both of the following occur: (a) Heavy machinery, including, but...
  • California Labor Code Section 9102
    (a) The owner, manager, or operator of a working warehouse shall secure merchandise stored on shelves higher than 12 feet above the sales floor. Methods...
  • California Labor Code Section 9103
    (a) When heavy machinery is used to move merchandise from a shelf, there shall be a safety zone established to temporarily block customers from entering...
  • California Labor Code Section 9104
    An owner, manager, or operator of a working warehouse who employs more than 50 employees shall submit to the division, a report of all known...

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