No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein shall conform to the provisions of this code so far as possible.
Cal. Lab. Code § 4
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Known as the Labor Code
The act spans §§ 1–29 (34 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 44 Cal. 3d 1188 - Evangelatos v. Superior Court (1988)
Most recently applied in 244 Cal. App. 4th 197 - USS-POSCO Industries v. Floyd Case (January 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.