CHAPTER 1. General
Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
§§ 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…