A successor to any employer that is engaged in car washing and polishing that owed wages and penalties to the predecessor’s former employee or employees is liable for those wages and penalties if the successor meets any of the following criteria:

(a) Uses substantially the same facilities or workforce to offer substantially the same services as the predecessor employer.

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Terms Used In California Labor Code 2066

  • Car washing and polishing: means washing, cleaning, drying, polishing, detailing, servicing, or otherwise providing cosmetic care to vehicles. See California Labor Code 2051
  • Director: means Director of Industrial Relations. See California Labor Code 20
  • Employee: means any person, including a minor or a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States, who renders actual car washing and polishing services in any business for an employer, whether for tips or for wages, and whether wages are calculated by time, piece, task, commission, or other method of calculation, and whether the services are rendered on a commission, concessionaire, or other basis. See California Labor Code 2051
  • Employer: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, joint venture, or association engaged in the business of car washing and polishing that engages any other individual in providing those services. See California Labor Code 2051
  • Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Labor Code 18

(b) Shares in the ownership, management, control of the labor relations, or interrelations of business operations with the predecessor employer.

(c) Employs in a managerial capacity any person who directly or indirectly controlled the wages, hours, or working conditions of the affected employees of the predecessor employer.

(d) Is an immediate family member of any owner, partner, officer, or director of the predecessor employer of any person who had a financial interest in the predecessor employer.

(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 825, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2004.)