California Labor Code 558.1 – (a) Any employer or other person acting on behalf of an …
(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 days of work in any order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, or violates, or causes to be violated, Sections 203, 226, 226.7, 1193.6, 1194, or 2802, may be held liable as the employer for such violation.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term “other person acting on behalf of an employer” is limited to a natural person who is an owner, director, officer, or managing agent of the employer, and the term “managing agent” has the same meaning as in subdivision (b) of § 3294 of the Civil Code.
Terms Used In California Labor Code 558.1
- Director: means Director of Industrial Relations. See California Labor Code 20
- Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Labor Code 18
- Violation: includes a failure to comply with any requirement of the code. See California Labor Code 22
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the definition of employer under existing law.
(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 803, Sec. 10. (SB 588) Effective January 1, 2016.)