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 for employees. The employment of any employee for longer hours than those fixed by the order or under conditions of labor prohibited by the order is unlawful.
Cal. Lab. Code § 1198
Wages, Hours and Working Conditions
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 765 F. Supp. 2d 1222 - McKenzie v. Federal Express Corp. (2011)
Most recently applied in Liliana Canela v. Costco (July 2020)
Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1007.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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