Where any statute or contract requires an employer to maintain the designated wage scale, it shall be unlawful to secretly pay a lower wage while purporting to pay the wage designated by statute or by contract.
Cal. Lab. Code § 223
General Occupations
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Leyva v. Certified Grocers of California, Ltd. (1979)
Most recently applied in 9 Cal. 5th 762 - Oman v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (June 2020)
Added by Stats. 1937, Ch. 357.
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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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