Terms Used In California Codes > Labor Code > Division 2 > Part 3 > Chapter 3.1 - Unfair Immigration-Related Practices

• Agency: means the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. See California Labor Code 18.5
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission created by §. See California Public Utilities Code 20
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means Department of Industrial Relations. See California Labor Code 19
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Labor Commissioner: means Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. See California Labor Code 21
• License: means any agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, or charter that is required by law and that is issued by any agency for the purposes of operating a business in this state and that is specific to the business location or locations where the unfair immigration-related practice occurred. See California Labor Code 1019
• Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Labor Code 18
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Public Utilities Code 17
• unfair immigration-related practice: means any of the following practices, when undertaken for the retaliatory purposes prohibited by subdivision (a):

  California Labor Code 1019

• Violation: means each incident when an unfair immigration-related practice was committed, without reference to the number of employees involved in the incident. See California Labor Code 1019