Title LAB, California Lab. Code

No minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity in: (a) Adjusting any belt to any machinery. (b) Sewing or lacing machine belts in any workshop or factory. (c) Oiling, wiping, or cleaning machinery, or assisting therein. (Enacted by …

No minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, or permitted, to work in any capacity in operating or assisting in operating any of the following machines: (a) Circular or band saws; wood shapers; wood-jointers; planers; sandpaper or wood-polishing machinery; wood turn…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 1394, no minor under the age of 12 years may be employed or permitted to work, or accompany or be permitted to accompany an employed parent or guardian, in an agricultural zone of danger. As used in this section, “agricultural …

No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity: (a) Upon any railroad, whether steam, electric, or hydraulic. (b) Upon any vessel or boat engaged in navigation or commerce within the jurisdiction of this state. (c) In, about, or in conne…

(a) No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted to work in either of the following: (1) Any occupation declared particularly hazardous for the employment of minors below the age of 16 years in Section 570.71 of Subpart E-1 of Part 570 of Title 29 of the Code…

Minors 14 and 15 years of age may be employed in occupations not otherwise prohibited by this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following: (a) Office and clerical work, including the operation of office machines. (b) Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work in adve…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a minor engaged in the delivery of newspapers to consumers from making deliveries by foot, bicycle, public transportation, or by an automobile driven by a person 16 years of age or older. (Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 887, Sec…

(a) Minors 16 and 17 years of age may work in gas service stations in the following activities: (1) Dispensing gas or oil. (2) Courtesy service. (3) Car cleaning, washing, and polishing. (4) Activities specified in Section 1294.3. (b) No minor 16 or 17 years of age may perform wo…

(a) Sections 1292, 1293, 1294, and 1294.5 shall not apply to any of the following: (1) Courses of training in vocational or manual training schools or in state institutions. (2) Apprenticeship training provided in an apprenticeship training program established pursuant to Chapter…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 1391 of this code or Section 49116 of the Education Code, minors 14 years of age and older may be employed during the hours permitted by subdivision (b) to perform sports-attending services in professional baseball as enumerated in subsection (b) of Se…

The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may, after a hearing, determine whether any particular trade, process of manufacture, or occupation, in which the employment of minors is not already forbidden by law, or whether any particular method of carrying on the trade, process o…

No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted to work as a messenger for any telegraph, telephone, or messenger company, or for the United States government or any of its departments while operating a telegraph, telephone, or messenger service, in the distribu…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 1308.1, no minor under 12 years of age shall be employed or permitted to work at any time in or in connection with the occupation of selling or distributing newspapers, magazines, periodicals, or circulars. (b) This section shall not apply to a minor w…

Every person, or agent or officer thereof, employing minors, either directly or indirectly through third persons, shall keep on file all permits and certificates, either to work or to employ, issued under this chapter or Part 27 (commencing with Section 48000) of the Education Co…

All certificates and permits to work or to employ shall be subject to cancellation at any time by the Labor Commissioner or by the issuing authority, whenever the commissioner or the issuing authority finds that the conditions for the legal issuance of such certificate or permit …

(a) The provisions of this chapter concerning the employment of minors, and the civil penalties for violations of those provisions, are fully applicable to every person who owns or controls the real property upon which a minor is employed, whether or not that person is the minor’…

The attendance supervisor, who is a full-time attendance supervisor performing no other duties, of any county, city and county, or school district in which any place of employment is situated, or the probation officer of the county, may at any time, enter the place of employment …

Any person, or agent or officer of that person, employing either directly or indirectly through third persons, or any parent or guardian of a minor affected by this chapter who violates any provision of this chapter, or who employs, or permits any minor to be employed in violatio…

Failure to produce any permit or certificate either to work or to employ is prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any minor whose permit or certificate is not produced. Proof that any person was the manager or superintendent of any place of employment subject to this …

(a) All fines and penalties collected under this chapter, other than as the result of a judicial proceeding to enforce collection, shall be paid to the department in the form of remittances payable to the Department of Industrial Relations. The department shall transmit the payme…

All minors coming within the provisions of Division 9 (commencing with Section 10501) of the Education Code shall be placed or delivered into the custody of the school district authorities of the county or city in which they are found illegally at work. (Amended by Stats. 1965, C…

(a) Any person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), imprisonment for not exceeding six months, or both, who, as parent, relative, guardian, employer, or otherwise ha…

(a) No minor under the age of 6 years shall be permitted to engage in the door-to-door sales or street sales of candy, cookies, flowers, or any other merchandise or commodities. (b) No minor under 16 years of age, permitted by law to engage in door-to-door sales of newspaper or m…

(a) Prior to the employment of a minor under the age of 16 years in any of the circumstances listed in subdivision (a) of Section 1308.5, the Labor Commissioner may issue a temporary permit authorizing employment of the minor to enable a parent or guardian of the minor to meet th…

(a) All registrations, fees, and permit fees collected under this chapter shall be deposited in the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund. (b) On June 27, 2016, any moneys in the Entertainment Work Permit Fund and any assets, liabilities, revenues, expenditures, and encumbrances …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), any person 18 years of age or older who transports, or provides direction or supervision during transportation of, a minor under 16 years of age to any location more than 10 miles from the minor’s residence, or directs or supervises a mi…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (g), any individual, association, corporation, or other entity that employs or uses, either directly or indirectly through third persons, minors under 16 years of age in door-to-door sales at any location more than 10 miles from the minor’s r…

The Labor Commissioner may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any registration under Section 1308.2 or 1308.3 when any of the following have occurred: (a) The registrant or any agent of the registrant has violated or failed to comply with Section 1308.2 or 1308.3. (b) The regist…

(a) This section, with the exception of paragraph (4) of this subdivision, shall apply to all minors under the age of 16 years. The written consent of the Labor Commissioner in the form of a permit to employ a minor in the entertainment industry is required for any minor, not oth…

No consent shall be given at any time unless the officer giving it is satisfied that all of the following conditions are met: (a) The environment in which the performance, concert, or entertainment is to be produced is proper for the minor. (b) The conditions of employment are no…

(a) No minor shall be employed in the entertainment industry more than eight hours in one day of 24 hours, or more than 48 hours in one week, or before 5 a.m., or after 10 p.m. on any day preceding a schoolday. However, a minor may work the hours authorized by this section during…

(a) No infant under the age of one month may be employed in the entertainment industry unless a licensed physician and surgeon who is board certified in either pediatrics or family medicine provides written certification that the infant is at least 15 days old and, in their medic…

(a) If the Labor Commissioner provides written consent pursuant to Section 1308.5 for the employment of a minor under a contract described in Section 6750 of the Family Code, that consent shall be void after the expiration of 10 business days from the date written consent was gra…

Every person who takes, receives, hires, employs, uses, exhibits, or has in custody, for any of the purposes mentioned in Section 1308, any minor under the age of 16, or under the age of 18, as specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1308, is guilty of a misdemea…

(a) Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor under 18 years of age, or who, while in possession of these facts that he or she should reasonably know that the person is a minor under 18 years of age, knowingly sells or distributes for resale films, photographs, sl…

(a) Any person who violates any provision of Section 1309.5 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) for each violation, which shall be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of…

This chapter and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1390) do not prohibit or prevent any of the following: (a) The appearance of any minor in any church, public or religious school, or community entertainment. (b) The appearance of any minor in any school entertainment or in any …

The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall enforce this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 561, Sec. 161. (AB 1516) Effective January 1, 2018.)

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Child Labor Protection Act of 2014. (b) The statute of limitations for claims arising under this code shall be tolled until an individual allegedly aggrieved by an unlawful practice attains the age of majority. This subdivis…

This chapter does not limit the authority of the Attorney General or the district attorney of any county, either upon their own complaint or the complaint of any person acting for himself or the general public, to prosecute actions, either civil or criminal, for violations of thi…

A domestic work employee who is a personal attendant shall not be employed more than nine hours in any workday or more than 45 hours in any workweek unless the employee receives one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over nine hours in any …

(a) (1) The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, upon appropriation of funds to the division for purposes of this section, shall establish and maintain an outreach and education program. The purpose of the program shall be to promote awareness of, and compliance with, labor p…

Every employer shall register with the commissioner annually. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 825, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2004.)

The commissioner shall not permit any employer to register, or to renew registration, until all of the following conditions are satisfied: (a) The employer has applied for registration to the commissioner by presenting proof of compliance with the local government’s business lice…

When a certificate of registration is originally issued or renewed under this chapter, the commissioner shall provide related and supplemental information to the registrant regarding business administration and applicable labor laws. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 825, Sec. 2. Effect…

Proof of registration shall be by an official Division of Labor Standards Enforcement registration form. Each employer shall post the registration form where it may be read by the employees during the workday. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 825, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2004.)