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CA Labor Code § 203 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 203.

203.  (a) If an employer willfully fails to pay, without abatement or reduction, in accordance with Sections 201, 201.3, 201.5, 201.6, 201.8, 201.9, 202, and 205.5, any wages of an employee who is discharged or who quits, the wages of the employee shall continue as a penalty from the due date thereof at the same rate until paid or until an action therefor is commenced; but the wages shall not continue for more than 30 days. An employee who secretes or absents themselves to avoid payment to them, or who refuses to receive the payment when fully tendered to them, including any penalty then accrued under this section, is not entitled to any benefit under this section for the time during which the employee so avoids payment.(b) Suit may be filed for these penalties at any time before the expiration of the statute of limitations on an action for the wages from which the penalties arise.(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 700, Sec. 2.5. (SB 286) Effective January 1, 2020.)
CA Labor Code § 203.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 203.1.

203.1.  If an employer pays an employee in the regular course of employment or in accordance with Section 201, 201.3, 201.5, 201.6, 201.7, 201.8, or 202 any wages or fringe benefits, or both, by check, draft or voucher, which check, draft or voucher is subsequently refused payment because the employer or maker has no account with the bank, institution, or person on which the instrument is drawn, or has insufficient funds in the account upon which the instrument is drawn at the time of its presentation, so long as the same is presented within 30 days of receipt by the employee of the check, draft or voucher, those wages or fringe benefits, or both, shall continue as a penalty from the due date thereof at the same rate until paid or until an action therefor is commenced. However, those wages and fringe benefits shall not continue for more than 30 days and this penalty shall not apply if the employer can establish to the satisfaction of the Labor Commissioner or an appropriate court of law that the violation of this section was unintentional. This penalty also shall not apply in any case in which an employee recovers the service charge authorized by Section 1719 of the Civil Code in an action brought by the employee thereunder.(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 700, Sec. 3.5. (SB 286) Effective January 1, 2020.)
CA Labor Code § 203.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 203.5.

203.5.  (a) If a bonding company issuing a bond which secures the payment of wages for labor or the surety on a bond willfully fails to pay, without abatement or reduction, any verified claim made for wages found to be due and payable, the claim for wages shall continue as a penalty against the bonding company or surety from the date on which demand for payment was made at the same rate until paid as the wages upon which the claim is based, except that the claim shall not continue as a penalty for more than 30 days.(b) This section shall not apply to contractor’s bonds required pursuant to Section 7071.6 of the Business and Professions Code.(Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1281, Sec. 1.)
CA Labor Code § 204a (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 204a.

204a.  When workers are engaged in an employment that normally involves working for several employers in the same industry interchangeably, and the several employers, or some of them, cooperate to establish a plan for the payment of wages at a central place or places and in accordance with a unified schedule of pay days, all the provisions of this chapter except 201, 202, and 208 shall apply. All such workers, including those who have been discharged and those who quit, shall receive their wages at such central place or places.This section shall not apply to any such plan until 10 days after notice of their intention to set up such a plan shall have been given to the Labor Commissioner by the employers who cooperate to establish the plan. Having once been established, no such plan can be abandoned except after notice of their intention to abandon such plan has been given to the Labor Commissioner by the employers intending to abandon the plan.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 11.)
CA Labor Code § 204b (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 204b.

204b.  Section 204 shall be inapplicable to employees paid on a weekly basis on a regular day designated by the employer in advance of the rendition of services as the regular payday.Labor performed by a weekly-paid employee during any calendar week and prior to or on the regular payday shall be paid for not later than the regular payday of the employer for such weekly-paid employee falling during the following calendar week.Labor performed by a weekly-paid employee during any calendar week and subsequent to the regular payday shall be paid for not later than seven days after the regular payday of the employer for such weekly-paid employee falling during the following calendar week.(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1564.)
CA Labor Code § 204c (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 204c.

204c.  Section 204 shall be inapplicable to executive, administrative or professional employees who are not covered by any collective bargaining agreement, who are not subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act, whose monthly remuneration does not include overtime pay, and who are paid within seven days of the close of their monthly payroll period.(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 343.)
CA Labor Code § 204.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 204.1.

204.1.  Commission wages paid to any person employed by an employer licensed as a vehicle dealer by the Department of Motor Vehicles are due and payable once during each calendar month on a day designated in advance by the employer as the regular payday. Commission wages are compensation paid to any person for services rendered in the sale of such employer’s property or services and based proportionately upon the amount or value thereof.The provisions of this section shall not apply if there exists a collective bargaining agreement between the employer and his employees which provides for the date on which wages shall be paid.(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1170.)
CA Labor Code § 204.11 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 204.11.

204.11.  Commission wages paid to any employee who is licensed pursuant to the Barbering and Cosmetology Act (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 7301) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code) are due and payable at least twice during each calendar month on a day designated in advance by the employer as the regular payday. For any employee who is licensed pursuant to the Barbering and Cosmetology Act (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 7301) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code), wages that are paid to that employee for providing services for which such a license is required, when paid as a percentage or a flat sum portion of the sums paid to the employer by the client recipient of such service, and for selling goods, constitute commissions, provided that the employee is paid, in every pay period in which hours are worked, a regular base hourly rate of at least two times the state minimum wage rate for all hours worked in addition to commissions paid. The employee and employer may agree to a commission in addition to the base hourly rate. An employee may be compensated for rest and recovery periods at a rate of pay not less than the employee’s regular base hourly rate. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to limit any rights or remedies otherwise available under state or federal law, including the right to overtime compensation.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 831, Sec. 1. (SB 490) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Labor Code § 204.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 204.2.

204.2.  Salaries of executive, administrative, and professional employees of employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, as set forth pursuant to Section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended through March 1, 1969, (Title 29, Section 213(a)(1), United States Code) in Part 541 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as that part now reads, earned for labor performed in excess of 40 hours in a calendar week are due and payable on or before the 26th day of the calendar month immediately following the month in which such labor was performed. However, when such employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement that provides different pay arrangements, those arrangements will apply to the covered employees.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1237.)
CA Labor Code § 205 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 205.

205.  In agricultural, viticultural, and horticultural pursuits, in stock or poultry raising, and in household domestic service, when the employees in such employments are boarded and lodged by the employer, the wages due any employee remaining in such employment shall become due and payable once in each calendar month on a day designated in advance by the employer as the regular payday. No two successive paydays shall be more than 31 days apart, and the payment shall include all wages up to the regular payday. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, wages of workers employed by a farm labor contractor shall be paid on payroll periods at least once every week on a business day designated in advance by the farm labor contractor. Payment on such payday shall include all wages earned up to and including the fourth day before such payday.(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1041.)
CA Labor Code § 205.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 205.5.

205.5.  All wages, other than those mentioned in Sections 201 and 202, earned by any agricultural employee, as defined in Section 1140.4, are due and payable twice during each calendar month, on days designated in advance by the agricultural employer as the regular paydays. Labor performed between the 1st and the 15th days, inclusive, of any calendar month shall be paid between the 16th and the 22nd day of the month during which the labor was performed. Labor performed between the 16th and the last day, inclusive, of any calendar month shall be paid between the first and the seventh day of the following month. Agricultural employees, as used in this section, shall not include those employees who are covered by Section 205.(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 92, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Labor Code § 206 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 206.

206.  (a) In case of a dispute over wages, the employer shall pay, without condition and within the time set by this article, all wages, or parts thereof, conceded by him to be due, leaving to the employee all remedies he might otherwise be entitled to as to any balance claimed.(b) If, after an investigation and hearing, the Labor Commissioner has determined the validity of any employee’s claim for wages, the claim is due and payable within 10 days after receipt of notice by the employer that such wages are due. Any employer having the ability to pay who willfully fails to pay such wages within 10 days shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, pay treble the amount of any damages accruing to the employee as a direct and foreseeable consequence of such failure to pay.(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 312.)
CA Labor Code § 206.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 206.5.

206.5.  (a) An employer shall not require the execution of a release of a claim or right on account of wages due, or to become due, or made as an advance on wages to be earned, unless payment of those wages has been made. A release required or executed in violation of the provisions of this section shall be null and void as between the employer and the employee. Violation of this section by the employer is a misdemeanor.(b) For purposes of this section, “execution of a release” includes requiring an employee, as a condition of being paid, to execute a statement of the hours he or she worked during a pay period which the employer knows to be false.(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 224, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2009.)
CA Labor Code § 207 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 207.

207.  Every employer shall keep posted conspicuously at the place of work, if practicable, or otherwise where it can be seen as employees come or go to their places of work, or at the office or nearest agency for payment kept by the employer, a notice specifying the regular pay days and the time and place of payment, in accordance with this article.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 208 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 208.

208.  Every employee who is discharged shall be paid at the place of discharge, and every employee who quits shall be paid at the office or agency of the employer in the county where the employee has been performing labor. All payments shall be made in the manner provided by law.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 209 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 209.

209.  In the event of any strike, the unpaid wages earned by striking employees shall become due and payable on the next regular pay day, and the payment or settlement thereof shall include all amounts due the striking employees without abatement or reduction. The employer shall return to each striking employee any deposit, money, or other guaranty required by him from the employee for the faithful performance of the duties of the employment.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 210 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 210.

210.  (a) In addition to, and entirely independent and apart from, any other penalty provided in this article, every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee as provided in Sections 201.3, 204, 204b, 204.1, 204.2, 204.11, 205, 205.5, and 1197.5, shall be subject to a penalty as follows:(1) For any initial violation, one hundred dollars ($100) for each failure to pay each employee.(2) For each subsequent violation, or any willful or intentional violation, two hundred dollars ($200) for each failure to pay each employee, plus 25 percent of the amount unlawfully withheld.(b) The penalty shall either be recovered by the employee as a statutory penalty pursuant to Section 98 or by the Labor Commissioner as a civil penalty through the issuance of a citation or pursuant to Section 98.3. The procedures for issuing, contesting, and enforcing judgments for citations issued by the Labor Commissioner under this section shall be the same as those set forth in subdivisions (b) through (k), inclusive, of Section 1197.1.(c) An employee is only entitled to either recover the statutory penalty provided for in this section or to enforce a civil penalty as set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 2699, but not both, for the same violation.(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 716, Sec. 1. (AB 673) Effective January 1, 2020.)
CA Labor Code § 211 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 211.

211.  When action to recover such penalties is brought, no court costs shall be payable by the state or the division. Any sheriff or marshal who serves the summons in the action upon any defendant within his or her jurisdiction shall do so without cost to the division. The sheriff or marshal shall specify in the return what costs he or she would ordinarily have been entitled to for such service, and those costs and the other regular court costs that would have accrued were the action not on behalf of the state shall be made a part of any judgment recovered by the plaintiff and shall be paid out of the first money recovered on the judgment. Several causes of action for the penalties may be united in the same action without being separately stated. A demand is a prerequisite to the bringing of any action under this section or Section 210. The division on behalf of the state may accept and receipt for any penalties so paid, with or without suit.(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 872, Sec. 105. Effective January 1, 1997.)
CA Labor Code § 212 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 212.

212.  (a) No person, or agent or officer thereof, shall issue in payment of wages due, or to become due, or as an advance on wages to be earned:(1) Any order, check, draft, note, memorandum, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness, unless it is negotiable and payable in cash, on demand, without discount, at some established place of business in the state, the name and address of which must appear on the instrument, and at the time of its issuance and for a reasonable time thereafter, which must be at least 30 days, the maker or drawer has sufficient funds in, or credit, arrangement, or understanding with the drawee for its payment.(2) Any scrip, coupon, cards, or other thing redeemable, in merchandise or purporting to be payable or redeemable otherwise than in money.(b) Where an instrument mentioned in subdivision (a) is protested or dishonored, the notice or memorandum of protest or dishonor is admissible as proof of presentation, nonpayment and protest and is presumptive evidence of knowledge of insufficiency of funds or credit with the drawee.(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), if the drawee is a bank, the bank’s address need not appear on the instrument and, in that case, the instrument shall be negotiable and payable in cash, on demand, without discount, at any place of business of the drawee chosen by the person entitled to enforce the instrument.(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 352, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Labor Code § 213 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 213.

213.  Nothing contained in Section 212 shall:(a) Prohibit an employer from guaranteeing the payment of bills incurred by an employee for the necessaries of life or for the tools and implements used by the employee in the performance of his or her duties.(b) Apply to counties, municipal corporations, quasi-municipal corporations, or school districts.(c) Apply to students of nonprofit schools, colleges, universities, and other nonprofit educational institutions.(d) Prohibit an employer from depositing wages due or to become due or an advance on wages to be earned in an account in any bank, savings and loan association, or credit union of the employee’s choice with a place of business located in this state, provided that the employee has voluntarily authorized that deposit. If an employer discharges an employee or the employee quits, the employer may pay the wages earned and unpaid at the time the employee is discharged or quits by making a deposit authorized pursuant to this subdivision, provided that the employer complies with the provisions of this article relating to the payment of wages upon termination or quitting of employment.(Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 149, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.)
CA Labor Code § 214 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 214.

214.  Prosecution under section 212 may be brought either at the place where the alleged illegal order, check, draft, note, memorandum or other acknowledgment of wage indebtedness is issued or at the place where it is made payable.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 215 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 215.

215.  Any person, or the agent, manager, superintendent or officer thereof, who violates any provision of Section 201.3, 204, 204b, 205, 207, 208, 209, or 212 is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any failure to keep posted any notice required by Section 207 is prima facie evidence of a violation of these sections.(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 169, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2009.)
CA Labor Code § 216 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 216.

216.  In addition to any other penalty imposed by this article, any person, or an agent, manager, superintendent, or officer thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor, who:(a) Having the ability to pay, willfully refuses to pay wages due and payable after demand has been made.(b) Falsely denies the amount or validity thereof, or that the same is due, with intent to secure for himself, his employer or other person, any discount upon such indebtedness, or with intent to annoy, harass, oppress, hinder, delay, or defraud, the person to whom such indebtedness is due.(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1358.)
CA Labor Code § 217 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION|PART 1 - COMPENSATION|CHAPTER 1 - Payment of Wages|ARTICLE 1 - General Occupations|Section 217.

217.  The Division of Labor Law Enforcement shall inquire diligently for any violations of this article, and, in cases which it deems proper, shall institute the actions for the penalties provided for in this article and shall enforce this article.(Amended by Stats. 1945, Ch. 1431.)