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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  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...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 six 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) The Workers' Compensation Administration Revolving Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury. Money in the fund may be expended...
• 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 65
  The department may investigate and mediate labor disputes providing any bona fide party to this type of dispute requests intervention by the department and the...
• 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 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 shall have the authority to investigate employee complaints. The Labor Commissioner may provide for a hearing in any action to recover...
• 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 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
  (a) The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, consisting of seven members, shall exercise all judicial powers vested in it under this code. In all other respects,...
• 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 and supervised by the court administrator pursuant to this chapter shall be taken from...
• California Labor Code Section 123.6
  (a) All workers' compensation administrative law judges employed by the administrative director and supervised by the court administrator shall subscribe to the Code of Judicial...
• 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 and court administrator may: (a) Charge and collect fees for copies of papers and records, for certified copies of official documents and...
• California Labor Code Section 127.5
  In the exercise of his or her functions, the court administrator shall further the interests of uniformity and expedition of proceedings before workers' compensation administrative...
• 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, the court administrator, and the appeals board, shall have power and jurisdiction to do all things...
• 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 and the court administrator may each appoint a deputy to act during that time as he or she may be absent from...
• California Labor Code Section 138.1
  (a) The administrative director shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall hold office at the pleasure...
• 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 and the...
• 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 provision of law, to the extent those services are paid pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200), it is unlawful...
• 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 139.4
  (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
  (a) (1) The administrative director shall establish the Return-to-Work Program in order to promote the early and sustained return to work of the employee following...
• California Labor Code Section 139.49
  (a) The administrative director shall contract with an independent research organization to conduct a study and issue a report on the Return-to-Work Program established in...
• California Labor Code Section 139.5
  (a) The administrative director shall establish a vocational rehabilitation unit, which shall include appropriate professional staff, and which shall have all of the following duties:...
• 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
  The Division of Labor Statistics and Research, hereafter in this chapter referred to as the division, shall collect, compile and present facts and statistics relating...
• California Labor Code Section 151
  The division shall conduct an annual survey of the ethnic derivation of the individuals who are parties to apprentice agreements described in Section 3077 of...
• California Labor Code Section 152
  The Chief of the Division of Labor Statistics and Research and employees of the division authorized by him may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance...
• California Labor Code Section 153
  Except as provided in Section 151 no use shall be made in the reports of the division of the names of persons supplying the information...
• 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 Division...
• 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 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 201.5
  (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
  If an employer willfully fails to pay, without abatement or reduction, in accordance with Sections 201, 201.5, 202, and 205.5, any wages of an employee...
• California Labor Code Section 203.1
  If an employer pays an employee in the regular course of employment or in accordance with Section 201, 201.5, 201.7, or 202 any wages or...
• 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, 202, 204.1, or 204.2, earned by any person in any employment are due and payable...
• 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
  No employer shall require the execution of any release of any claim or right on account of wages due, or to become due, or made...
• 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
  In addition to, and entirely independent and apart from, any other penalty provided in this article, every person who fails to pay the wages of...
• 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 Sections 204, 204b, 205, 207, 208, 209, or 212 is...
• 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 201.5, 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 directly...
• 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 226.3
  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 226.2, or any officer, agent, employee, fiduciary, or other person who has...
• 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 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 such...
• 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 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 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 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 1137
  The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms used in this chapter: (a) "Local agency" means any...
• California Labor Code Section 1137.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following provisions shall govern disputes between exclusive bargaining representatives of public transit employees and local agencies: (a) Such...
• California Labor Code Section 1137.2
  (a) Whenever in the opinion of the Governor, a threatened or actual strike or lockout will, if permitted to occur or continue, significantly disrupt public...
• California Labor Code Section 1137.3
  The board of investigation shall be composed of no more than five members, one of whom shall be designated by the Governor as chairperson. Members...
• California Labor Code Section 1137.4
  Upon receiving a report from a board of investigation, the Governor may request the Attorney General to, and he or she shall, petition any court...
• California Labor Code Section 1137.5
  If the charter or establishing legislation of the local agency establishes a time period for the negotiating or meeting and conferring process which is shorter...
• California Labor Code Section 1137.6
  Except as expressly provided by subdivision (b) of Section 1137.2 and Section 1137.4, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to grant or deprive employees...
• 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,...