CHAPTER 1. Wages, Hours and Working Conditions

Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.

§§ 1171–1207 · 66 sections

§ 1171 The provisions of this chapter shall apply to and include men, women and minors employed in any occupation, trade, or industry, whether compensation is…
§ 1171.5 The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) All protections, rights, and remedies available under state law, except any reinstatement remedy…
§ 1173 It is the continuing duty of the Industrial Welfare Commission, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the commission, to ascertain the wages paid to all…
§ 1174 Every person employing labor in this state shall: (a) Furnish to the commission, at its request, reports or information that the commission requires to carry…
§ 1174.1 (a) Any employer, or other person or entity, who may be liable for a violation of any provision of this code shall be precluded from introducing as evidence,…
§ 1174.5 Any person employing labor who willfully fails to maintain the records required by subdivision (c) of Section 1174 or accurate and complete records required by…
§ 1175 Any person, or officer or agent thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (a) Neglects or refuses to furnish the information requested under the provisions of…
§ 1176 The commission or any members thereof may subpena witnesses and administer oaths. All witnesses subpenaed by the commission shall be paid the fees and mileage…
§ 1176.1 Any interested party may petition the commission requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. The petition shall state clearly and concisely…
§ 1176.3 (a) Within 120 days of the receipt of a petition requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation, the commission shall notify the petitioner in…
§ 1177 (a) The commission may make and enforce rules of practice and procedure and shall not be bound by the rules of evidence. Each order of the commission shall be…
§ 1178 If after investigation the commission finds that in any occupation, trade, or industry, the wages paid to employees may be inadequate to supply the cost of…
§ 1178.5 (a) If the commission finds that wages paid to employees may be inadequate to supply the cost of proper living, it shall select one wage board composed of an…
§ 1179 The members of the wage board shall be allowed fifty dollars ($50) per diem and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in such conferences. The commission…
§ 1180 The proceedings and deliberations of the wage board shall be made a matter of record for the use of the commission, and shall be admissible as evidence in any…
§ 1181 Upon the fixing of the time and place for the holding of a hearing for the purpose of considering and acting upon the proposed regulations or any matters…
§ 1182 (a) After receipt of the wage board report and the public hearings on the proposed regulations, the commission may, upon its own motion, amend or rescind an…
§ 1182.1 Any action taken by the commission pursuant to Sections 517 and 1182 shall be published in at least one newspaper in each of the Cities of Los Angeles,…
§ 1182.4 (a) No student employee, camp counselor, or program counselor of an organized camp shall be subject to a minimum wage or maximum hour order of the commission…
§ 1182.5 (a) The Legislature finds that the time permitted the Industrial Welfare Commission to consider daily overtime compensation petitions that are to be given…
§ 1182.6 (a) No employer who continuously operates a manufacturing facility 24 hours a day for seven days a week, and who has had in operation an established…
§ 1182.7 (a) The Legislature finds that the time permitted the Industrial Welfare Commission to consider petitions, including, but not limited to, daily overtime…
§ 1182.8 No employer shall be in violation of any provision of any applicable order of the Industrial Welfare Commission relating to credit or charges for lodging for…
§ 1182.11 Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, on and after March 1, 1997, the minimum wage for all industries shall not be less than five dollars ($5.00)…
§ 1182.12 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, on and after July 1, 2014, the minimum wage for all industries shall be not less than nine dollars ($9)…
§ 1182.13 (a) The Department of Industrial Relations shall adjust upwards the permissible meals and lodging credits by the same percentage as the increase in the minimum…
§ 1182.14 (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Workers in the health care industry, including workers at general acute care hospitals, acute…
§ 1182.15 (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Workers in the health care industry, including workers at general acute care hospitals, acute…
§ 1182.16 Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 1182.14 and subdivision (c) of Section 1182.15, the effective dates of the minimum wage increases required by…
§ 1183 (a) So far as practicable, the commission, by mail, shall send a copy of the order authorized by Section 1182 to each employer in the occupation or industry in…
§ 1184 Any action taken by the commission pursuant to Section 1182 shall be effective on the first day of the succeeding January or July and not less than 60 days…
§ 1185 The orders of the commission fixing minimum wages, maximum hours, and standard conditions of labor for all employees, when promulgated in accordance with the…
§ 1186 A person employed in the practice of pharmacy is not exempt from coverage under any provision of the orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission unless he or…
§ 1186.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, pharmacists engaged in the practice of pharmacy who are employed in the mercantile industry, as defined by Wage…
§ 1187 The findings of fact made by the commission are, in the absence of fraud, conclusive.
§ 1188 Any person aggrieved directly or indirectly by any final rule or regulation of the commission made under this chapter may apply to the commission for a…
§ 1190 Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a review or other action permitted by the Constitution and laws of this State by a court of competent jurisdiction with…
§ 1191 (a) For any occupation in which a minimum wage has been established, the commission may issue to an employee who is mentally or physically disabled, or both, a…
§ 1192 For any occupation in which a minimum wage has been established, the commission may issue to an apprentice or learner a special license authorizing the…
§ 1193 The commission may fix the maximum number of employees to be employed under the licenses provided for in Sections 1191 and 1192 in any occupation, trade,…
§ 1193.5 The provisions of this chapter shall be administered and enforced by the division. Any authorized representative of the division shall have authority to: (a)…
§ 1193.6 (a) The department or division may, with or without the consent of the employee or employees affected, commence and prosecute a civil action to recover unpaid…
§ 1194 (a) Notwithstanding any agreement to work for a lesser wage, any employee receiving less than the legal minimum wage or the legal overtime compensation…
§ 1194.2 (a) In any action under Section 98, 1193.6, 1194, or 1197.1 to recover wages because of the payment of a wage less than the minimum wage fixed by an order of…
§ 1194.3 An employee may recover attorney’s fees and costs incurred to enforce a court judgment for unpaid wages due pursuant to this code.
§ 1194.5 In any case in which a person employing an employee has willfully violated any of the laws, regulations, or orders governing the wages, hours of work, or…
§ 1195 Any person may register with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement a complaint that the wage paid to an employee for whom a minimum wage has been fixed…
§ 1195.5 The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall determine, upon request, whether the wages of employees, which exceed the minimum wages fixed by the…
§ 1197 The minimum wage for employees fixed by the commission or by any applicable state or local law, is the minimum wage to be paid to employees, and the payment of…
§ 1197.1 (a) Any employer or other person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person, who pays or causes to be paid to any…
§ 1197.2 (a) In addition to any other penalty imposed by law, an employer who willfully fails to pay and has the ability to pay a final court judgment or final order…
§ 1197.5 (a) An employer shall not pay any of its employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of another sex for substantially similar work, when…
§ 1198 The maximum hours of work and the standard conditions of labor fixed by the commission shall be the maximum hours of work and the standard conditions of labor…
§ 1198.3 (a) The Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may, when in his or her judgment hardship will result, exempt any employer or employees from any…
§ 1198.4 Upon request, the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall make available to the public any enforcement policy statements or interpretations…
§ 1198.5 (a) (1) Every current and former employee, or their representative, has the right to inspect and receive a copy of the personnel records that the employer…
§ 1199 Every employer or other person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable…
§ 1199.5 Every employer or other person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable…
§ 1200 In every prosecution for violation of any provision of this chapter, the minimum wage, the maximum hours of work, and the standard conditions of labor fixed by…
§ 1201 The commission shall not act as a board of arbitration during a strike or lockout.
§ 1202 Upon the request of the commission, the department shall cause such statistics and other data and information to be gathered, and investigations made, as the…
§ 1203 The commission may publish and distribute from time to time reports and bulletins covering its operations and proceedings under this chapter and such other…
§ 1204 No order made by the commission under the provisions of Sections 1182 or 1184 of this chapter shall be effective unless and until compliance is had with the…
§ 1205 (a) As used in this section and in Section 1206: (1) “Local jurisdiction” means any city, county, district, or agency, or any subdivision or combination…
§ 1206 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this code establishes minimum penalties for failure to comply with wage-related statutes and regulations.
§ 1207 In any instance in which an employer is required to physically post information, an employer may also distribute that information to employees by email with…