“Labor Commissioner” means Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
Cal. Lab. Code § 21
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Known as the Labor Code
The act spans §§ 1–29 (34 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 22 Cal. 4th 575 - Morillion v. Royal Packing Co. (2000)
Most recently applied in 4 Cal. 5th 542 - Alvarado v. Dart Container Corp. of California (March 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 746.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.