California Labor Code CHAPTER 1 - General

• 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 same time...
• 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 40...
• 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 employees...
• 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 meal...
• 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 agency...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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 for...
• 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 compensation...
• 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 pursuant...
• 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 enrolled...
• Section 516.
  (a) 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...
• 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 with...
• 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...
• Section 551.
  Every person employed in any occupation of labor is entitled to one day’s rest therefrom in seven.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
• Section 552.
  No employer of labor shall cause his employees to work more than six days in seven.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
• Section 553.
  Any person who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
• Section 554.
  (a) Sections 551 and 552 do not apply to cases of emergency or to work performed in the protection of life or property from loss or...
• 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.(Amended...
• 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...
• 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 any...
• Section 558.1.
  (a) Any employer or other person acting on behalf of an employer, who violates, or causes to be violated, any provision regulating minimum wages or hours...

Last modified: October 22, 2018