California Labor Code CHAPTER 1 - General Powers and Duties

• Section 50.
  There is in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency the Department of Industrial Relations.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 859, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2003.)
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 occupational...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 56.
  The work of the department shall be divided into at least five divisions known as the Division of Workers’ Compensation, the Division of Occupational Safety...
• 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...
• 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) of...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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.(Amended...
• 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 Safety...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 62.5.
  (a) (1) The Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury. Money in the fund may be expended by...
• 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 Fraud...
• Section 62.8.
  Five million dollars ($5,000,000) is hereby appropriated for transfer by the State Controller upon order of the Director of Finance from the Cal-OSHA Targeted Inspection...
• 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...
• 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,...
• Section 64.5.
  When requested by the State Board of Equalization, the department may permit any duly authorized representative of that agency to transmit to the State Board...

Last modified: October 22, 2018