Any contract or agreement, express or implied, made by any employee to waive the benefits of this article or any part thereof, is null and void, and this article shall not deprive any employee or his personal representative of any right or remedy to which he is entitled under the laws of this State.
Cal. Lab. Code § 2804
Obligations of Employer
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 44 Cal. 4th 937 - Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP (2008)
Most recently applied in 161 F. Supp. 3d 873 - Villalpando v. Exel Direct Inc. (May 2016)
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
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.