General Occupations
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 99 Cal. App. 4th 1361 - Grant-Burton v. Covenant Care, Inc. (2002)
Most recently applied in 641 F. Supp. 2d 962 - McKinney v. American Airlines, Inc. (July 2009)
Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 934, Sec. 1
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.
No employer may do any of the following:
(a) Require, as a condition of employment, that an employee refrain from disclosing the amount of his or her wages.
(b) Require an employee to sign a waiver or other document that purports to deny the employee the right to disclose the amount of his or her wages.
(c) Discharge, formally discipline, or otherwise discriminate against an employee who discloses the amount of his or her wages.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.