Title LAB, California Lab. Code

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 and credited to the general fund. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 declares that this article is passed for a public reason and can not be contravened by a private agreement. As a part of the soci…

As used in this article, “applicant” means an applicant for employment. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

If a bond or photograph of an employee or applicant is required by any employer, the cost thereof shall be paid by the employer. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 of an equivalent value, or (b) The employer advances regularly to the employee goods, wares, or merchandise to be delivered or …

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as a bond it shall be deposited in a savings account in a bank authorized to do business in this State, and may be withdrawn only upon the joint signatures of the employer and the employee or applicant. Cash put up as a bond shall be accompanied by an agreemen…

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 an action between the employer and the employee or applicant, or their successors or assigns. (b) Shall be returned to the employee or applicant together wi…

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 employer and employee or for return to the employee or applicant and shall be held in trust for this purpose and not mingled with the property …

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 put up as a bond and is subject to the provisions of this article whether the property is put up on a note or as a loan or an investment and reg…

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 public policy of the State and shall not be advertised or held out in any way as a part of the consideration for any employment. (Enacted by Sta…

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, punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or imprisonment for not…

All fines imposed and collected under this article shall be paid into the State treasury and credited to the general fund. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

The Labor Commissioner shall enforce this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

As used in this article “applicant” means an applicant for employment. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 upon request. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 714.)

(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 detector or similar test or examination as a condition of employment or continued employment. The prohibition of this section does …

(a) An employer shall not rely on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer employment to an applicant or what salary to offer an applicant. (b) An employer shall not, orally or in writing, personally or through an a…

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 condition which is known by such employer, or agent, manager, superintendent, or officer thereof to be prohibited by law…

(a) A person shall not, as a condition of employment, continued employment, or the receipt of any employment-related benefit, require any applicant for employment or any employee to waive any right, forum, or procedure for a violation of any provision of the California Fair Emplo…

(a) (1) An employer, whether a public agency or private individual or corporation, shall not ask an applicant for employment to disclose, through any written form or verbally, information concerning an arrest or detention that did not result in conviction, or information concerni…

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 Section 11357 of the Health and Safety Code or a statutory predecessor thereof, or subdivision (c) of Section 11360 of the Health an…

Any person violating this article is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 as the Railway Labor Act. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

(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 an employer for changing clothes, unless authorized by court order. (b) No recording made in violation of this section may be used by an employer for …

(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 her employer, or any other person, in the purchase of any thing of value. (b) For purposes of this section, to compel or coerce the p…

Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 by his employees. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

(a) There is hereby established in state government a panel to conduct a study regarding the creation of an Association of Cooperative Labor Contractors for the purpose of facilitating the growth of democratically run high-road cooperative labor contractors. The panel shall be as…

As used in this chapter “label” includes label, imprint, trade-mark, tag, stamp, inscription, or other device. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 upon such article, or upon its container, misrepresent or falsely state any of the following as to the production of such article: (a)…

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 any acts or services of a private, public, or quasi-public nature for profit, who willfully misrepresents or falsely states that mem…

As used in this chapter “forge” means forge, reproduce, copy, imitate, or counterfeit. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 with the law of this State, has the exclusive right to the ownership, use, and control of such label or trademark. …

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 such label or trademark, with intent to sell or assist other persons to sell, any goods to which such forged lab…

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 any manner not authorized by such association or labor organization or not in conformity with the bylaws thereof, is guil…

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 rules and regulations of a labor union within this State is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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 union, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 20 days or by a fine of not more than f…

Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or pr…

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates: (a) “Horticultural” includes the curing and drying but not the canning of all varieties of fruit. (b) “Drama” or “play” includes the production of motion picture plays. (Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 561, Sec. 164. (A…

(a) Except as provided in Sections 1297, 1298, and 1308.7: (1) An employer shall not employ a minor 15 years of age or younger for more than eight hours in one day of 24 hours, or more than 40 hours in one week, or before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m., except that from June 1 through La…

Minors 16 years of age or older and under the age of 18 years enrolled in work experience or cooperative vocational education programs approved by the State Department of Education or in work experience education programs conducted by private schools may work after 10 p.m. but no…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 1391 and 1391.1, any minor under 18 years of age who has been graduated from a high school maintaining a four-year course above the eighth grade of the elementary schools, or who has had an equal amount of education in a private school or by private t…

Every person who has a minor under his or her control, as a ward or an apprentice, and who, except in household occupations, requires the minor to work more than eight hours in any one day, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1175, Sec. 25. Effective January …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and Article 2 (commencing with Section 49110) of Chapter 7 of Part 27 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, the Labor Commissioner may issue an exemption from laws regulating the employment of minors to employers o…

This chapter and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1285) do not prohibit or prevent either of the following: (a) The employment of any minor at agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, or domestic labor during the time the public schools are not in session, or during other tha…

The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 561, Sec. 169. (AB 1516) Effective January 1, 2018.)