PART 2. WORKING HOURS [500. - 890.]
Part 2 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
§§ 500–890 · 70 sections
CHAPTER 1. General §§ 500–558.1 · 26 sections
- § 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…
- § 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 hours in any one workweek and…
- § 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…
- § 512 (a) An employer shall not employ an employee for a work period of more than five hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less…
- § 512.1 (a) An employee directly employed by an employer shall be entitled to one unpaid 30-minute meal period on shifts over 5 hours and a second unpaid 30-minute…
- § 512.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including applicable wage orders, the requirement to provide a meal or rest period pursuant to an applicable…
- § 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…
- § 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 a personal obligation of the employee,…
- § 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, hours of…
- § 514.5 (a) Sections 510, 511, and 512 do not apply to a person who is covered by a contract to play baseball at the minor league level with a labor organization that…
- § 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…
- § 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…
- § 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 to…
- § 515.7 (a) If an employee is employed to provide instruction for a course or laboratory at an independent institution of higher education, the employee shall be…
- § 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 in…
- § 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…
- § 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…
- § 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 the work performed…
- § 551 Every person employed in any occupation of labor is entitled to one day’s rest therefrom in seven.
- § 552 No employer of labor shall cause his employees to work more than six days in seven.
- § 553 Any person who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
- § 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 destruction, or to any…
- § 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.
- § 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 week or six hours in any one…
- § 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 provision regulating…
- § 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 and…
CHAPTER 2. Railroads §§ 600–607 · 8 sections
- § 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…
- § 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 longer…
- § 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 or perform any work for…
- § 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 go on duty without having…
- § 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…
- § 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 hundred dollars ($500)…
- § 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 a…
- § 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 cause not known to, and…
CHAPTER 3. Smelters and Underground Workings §§ 750–752.5 · 7 sections
- § 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 the hours of…
- § 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…
- § 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 emergency.
- § 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…
- § 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 of pay for…
- § 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…
- § 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…
CHAPTER 4. Lumber Industries §§ 800–801 · 2 sections
- § 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…
- § 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 less than one…
CHAPTER 5. Pharmacies §§ 850–856 · 8 sections
- § 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,…
- § 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…
- § 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 permitted per day by this…
- § 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 during each week.
- § 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) nor more than one…
- § 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 epidemic.
- § 855 The provisions of this chapter are enacted as a measure for the protection of the public health.
- § 856 The Labor Commissioner shall enforce this chapter.
CHAPTER 6. Agriculture §§ 857–864 · 8 sections
- § 857 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016.
- § 858 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Agricultural employees engage in back-breaking work every day. (b) Few occupations in today’s…
- § 859 For purposes of this chapter, “employed in an agricultural occupation” has the same meaning as in Order No.14-2001 of the Industrial Welfare Commission…
- § 860 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 500): (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2019, except as provided in…
- § 861 Except as set forth in Section 860 and subdivision (a) of Section 862, all other provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 500) regarding compensation…
- § 862 (a) Beginning January 1, 2022, except as provided in subdivision (c), and consistent with Section 510, any work performed by a person, employed in an…
- § 863 (a) Notwithstanding Section 860 or 862, the Governor may temporarily suspend scheduled phase in of the overtime requirements set forth in Section 860, or…
- § 864 The Department of Industrial Relations shall update Wage Order No. 14-2001 to be consistent with this chapter, except that any existing provision in Wage Order…
CHAPTER 7. Emergency Ambulance Services §§ 880–890 · 11 sections
ARTICLE 1. Title § 880 · 1 section
- § 880 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Emergency Ambulance Employee Safety and Preparedness Act.
ARTICLE 2. Findings and Declarations § 881 · 1 section
- § 881 The people of the State of California find and declare the following: (a) California has the nation’s largest population, third largest landmass, and is prone…
ARTICLE 3. Statement of Purpose § 882 · 1 section
- § 882 The purpose of the Emergency Ambulance Employee Safety and Preparedness Act is to enhance public health and safety by ensuring that emergency ambulance…
ARTICLE 4. Emergency Ambulance Employee Safety and Preparedness §§ 883–889 · 7 sections
- § 883 Training. (a) In addition to other minimum employment qualifications and certifications, every emergency ambulance employee shall annually receive…
- § 884 Mental Health. (a) Every emergency ambulance employee shall receive employer-paid mental health and wellness education within 30 days of being hired and shall…
- § 885 Meal and Rest Periods. (a) All emergency ambulance employees are hereby entitled to meal and rest periods as prescribed elsewhere by the Industrial Welfare…
- § 886 Staffing for Meal Periods. (a) (1) An emergency ambulance provider shall not require an emergency ambulance employee to take a meal period during the first or…
- § 887 Communication to Protect Public Health and Safety. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary: (a) In order to maximize protection of public health…
- § 888 Definitions. As used in this chapter, all of the following definitions apply: (a) “Emergency ambulance employee” means a person who meets both of the following…
- § 889 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, Sections 887 and 888 are declaratory of, and do not alter or amend, existing California law and…
ARTICLE 5. Amendment § 890 · 1 section
- § 890 The Legislature may amend this chapter by a statute passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the journal, four-fifths of the…