An employee who has any business to transact on his own account, similar to that intrusted to him by his employer, shall always give the preference to the business of the employer.
Cal. Lab. Code § 2863
Obligations of Employee
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 150 Cal. App. 4th 400 - HUONG QUE, INC. v. Luu (2007)
Most recently applied in 782 F. Supp. 2d 911 - Mattel, Inc. v. MGA ENTERTAINMENT, INC. (January 2011)
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.