One who, for a good consideration, agrees to serve another, shall perform the service, and shall use ordinary care and diligence therein, so long as he is thus employed.
Cal. Lab. Code § 2854
Obligations of Employee
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. (1988)
Most recently applied in 387 F. Supp. 3d 1046 - Erhart v. Bofi Holding, Inc. (April 2019)
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.