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CA Labor Code § 2855 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2855.

2855.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a contract to render personal service, other than a contract of apprenticeship as provided in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 3070), may not be enforced against the employee beyond seven years from the commencement of service under it. Any contract, otherwise valid, to perform or render service of a special, unique, unusual, extraordinary, or intellectual character, which gives it peculiar value and the loss of which cannot be reasonably or adequately compensated in damages in an action at law, may nevertheless be enforced against the person contracting to render the service, for a term not to exceed seven years from the commencement of service under it. If the employee voluntarily continues to serve under it beyond that time, the contract may be referred to as affording a presumptive measure of the compensation.(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a):(1) Any employee who is a party to a contract to render personal service in the production of phonorecords in which sounds are first fixed, as defined in Section 101 of Title 17 of the United States Code, may not invoke the provisions of subdivision (a) without first giving written notice to the employer in accordance with Section 1020 of the Code of Civil Procedure, specifying that the employee from and after a future date certain specified in the notice will no longer render service under the contract by reason of subdivision (a).(2) Any party to a contract described in paragraph (1) shall have the right to recover damages for a breach of the contract occurring during its term in an action commenced during or after its term, but within the applicable period prescribed by law.(3) If a party to a contract described in paragraph (1) is, or could contractually be, required to render personal service in the production of a specified quantity of the phonorecords and fails to render all of the required service prior to the date specified in the notice provided in paragraph (1), the party damaged by the failure shall have the right to recover damages for each phonorecord as to which that party has failed to render service in an action that, notwithstanding paragraph (2), shall be commenced within 45 days after the date specified in the notice.(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 487. Effective January 1, 2007.)
CA Labor Code § 2856 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2856.

2856.  An employee shall substantially comply with all the directions of his employer concerning the service on which he is engaged, except where such obedience is impossible or unlawful, or would impose new and unreasonable burdens upon the employee.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2857 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2857.

2857.  An employee shall perform his service in conformity to the usage of the place of performance, unless otherwise directed by his employer, or unless it is impracticable or manifestly injurious to his employer to do so.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2858 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2858.

2858.  An employee is bound to exercise a reasonable degree of skill, unless his employer has notice, before employing him, of his want of skill.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2859 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2859.

2859.  An employee is always bound to use such skill as he possesses, so far as the same is required, for the service specified.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2860 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2860.

2860.  Everything which an employee acquires by virtue of his employment, except the compensation which is due to him from his employer, belongs to the employer, whether acquired lawfully or unlawfully, or during or after the expiration of the term of his employment.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2861 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2861.

2861.  An employee shall, on demand, render to his employer just accounts of all his transactions in the course of his service, as often as is reasonable, and shall, without demand, give prompt notice to his employer of everything which he receives for the account of the employer.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2862 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2862.

2862.  An employee who receives anything on account of his employer, in any capacity other than that of a mere servant, is not bound to deliver it to the employer until demanded, and is not at liberty to send it to the employer from a distance, without demand, in any mode involving greater risk than its retention by the employee himself.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2863 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2863.

2863.  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.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2864 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2864.

2864.  An employee who is expressly authorized to employ a substitute is liable to his principal only for want of ordinary care in his selection. The substitute is directly responsible to the principal.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2865 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2865.

2865.  An employee who is guilty of a culpable degree of negligence is liable to his employer for the damage thereby caused to the employer. The employer is liable to the employee if the service is not gratuitous, for the value of the services only as are properly rendered.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2866 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3 - Obligations of Employee|Section 2866.

2866.  Where service is to be rendered by two or more persons jointly, and one of them dies, the survivor shall act alone, if the service to be rendered is such as he can rightly perform without the aid of the deceased person, but not otherwise.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2870 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3.5 - Inventions Made by an Employee|Section 2870.

2870.  (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either: (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or (2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer. (b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 647, Sec. 5.)
CA Labor Code § 2871 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3.5 - Inventions Made by an Employee|Section 2871.

2871.  No employer shall require a provision made void and unenforceable by Section 2870 as a condition of employment or continued employment. Nothing in this article shall be construed to forbid or restrict the right of an employer to provide in contracts of employment for disclosure, provided that any such disclosures be received in confidence, of all of the employee’s inventions made solely or jointly with others during the term of his or her employment, a review process by the employer to determine such issues as may arise, and for full title to certain patents and inventions to be in the United States, as required by contracts between the employer and the United States or any of its agencies.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1001.)
CA Labor Code § 2872 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 3.5 - Inventions Made by an Employee|Section 2872.

2872.  If an employment agreement entered into after January 1, 1980, contains a provision requiring the employee to assign or offer to assign any of his or her rights in any invention to his or her employer, the employer must also, at the time the agreement is made, provide a written notification to the employee that the agreement does not apply to an invention which qualifies fully under the provisions of Section 2870. In any suit or action arising thereunder, the burden of proof shall be on the employee claiming the benefits of its provisions.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1001.)
CA Labor Code § 2920 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2920.

2920.  Every employment is terminated by any of the following:(a) Expiration of its appointed term.(b) Extinction of its subject.(c) Death of the employee.(d) The employee’s legal incapacity to act as such.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2921 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2921.

2921.  Every employment in which the power of the employee is not coupled with an interest in its subject is terminated by notice to the employee of either of the following:(a) The death of the employer.(b) The legal incapacity of the employer to contract.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2922 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2922.

2922.  An employment, having no specified term, may be terminated at the will of either party on notice to the other. Employment for a specified term means an employment for a period greater than one month.(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1607.)
CA Labor Code § 2923 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2923.

2923.  An employee, unless the term of his service has expired or unless he has a right to discontinue it at any time without notice, shall continue his service after notice of the death or incapacity of his employer, so far as is necessary to protect from serious injury the interests of the employer’s successor in interest, until a reasonable time after notice of the facts has been communicated to such successor. The successor shall compensate the employee for such service according to the terms of the contract of employment.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2924 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2924.

2924.  An employment for a specified term may be terminated at any time by the employer in case of any willful breach of duty by the employee in the course of his employment, or in case of his habitual neglect of his duty or continued incapacity to perform it.(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1607.)
CA Labor Code § 2925 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2925.

2925.  An employment for a specified term may be terminated by the employee at any time in case of any wilful or permanent breach of the obligations of his employer to him as an employee.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2926 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2926.

2926.  An employee who is not employed for a specified term and who is dismissed by his employer is entitled to compensation for services rendered up to the time of such dismissal.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2927 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2927.

2927.  An employee who is not employed for a specified term and who quits the service of his employer is entitled to compensation for services rendered up to the time of such quitting.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2928 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2928.

2928.  No deduction from the wages of an employee on account of his coming late to work shall be made in excess of the proportionate wage which would have been earned during the time actually lost, but for a loss of time less than thirty minutes, a half hour’s wage may be deducted.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
CA Labor Code § 2929 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 4 - Termination of Employment|Section 2929.

2929.  (a) As used in this section:(1) “Garnishment” means any judicial procedure through which the wages of an employee are required to be withheld for the payment of any debt.(2) “Wages” has the same meaning as that term has under Section 200.(b) No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that the garnishment of his wages has been threatened. No employer may discharge any employee by reason of the fact that his wages have been subjected to garnishment for the payment of one judgment. A provision of a contract of employment that provides an employee with less protection than is provided by this subdivision is against public policy and void.(c) Unless the employee has greater rights under the contract of employment, the wages of an employee who is discharged in violation of this section shall continue until reinstatement notwithstanding such discharge, but such wages shall not continue for more than 30 days and shall not exceed the amount of wages earned during the 30 calendar days immediately preceding the date of the levy of execution upon the employee’s wages which resulted in his discharge. The employee shall give notice to his employer of his intention to make a wage claim under this subdivision within 30 days after being discharged; and, if he desires to have the Labor Commissioner take an assignment of his wage claim, the employee shall file a wage claim with the Labor Commissioner within 60 days after being discharged. The Labor Commissioner may, in his discretion, take assignment of wage claims under this subdivision as provided for in Section 96. A discharged employee shall not be permitted to recover wages under this subdivision if a criminal prosecution based on the same discharge has been commenced for violation of Section 304 of the Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968 (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1674).(d) Nothing in this section affects any other rights the employee may have against his employer.(e) This section is intended to aid in the enforcement of the prohibition against discharge for garnishment of earnings provided in the Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968 (15 U.S.C. Secs. 1671–1677) and shall be interpreted and applied in a manner which is consistent with the corresponding provisions of such act. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1607.)
CA Labor Code § 2930 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 2 - Employer and Employee|ARTICLE 5 - Investigations of Employees|Section 2930.

2930.  (a) Any employer who disciplines or discharges an employee on the basis of a shopping investigator’s report of the employee’s conduct, performance, or honesty performed by a person licensed pursuant to Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 7500) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code shall provide the employee with a copy of the investigation report prior to discharging or disciplining the employee. Where an interview occurs which might result in the termination of an employee for dishonesty, the employee shall be handed a copy of the latest investigation report on which the interview was based during the course of the interview prior to its conclusion. This section shall not be applicable if the licensee conducting the investigation is employed exclusively and regularly by one employer in connection with the affairs of only that employer and where there exists an employer-employee relationship and the entire investigation is conducted solely for such employer by such licensee.(b) For purposes of this section, a “shopping investigator” is a person who: shops in commercial, retail, and service establishments to test integrity of sales, warehouse, stockroom, and service personnel, and evaluates sales techniques and services rendered customers; reviews an establishment’s policies and standards to ascertain employee performance requirements; buys merchandise, orders food, or utilizes services to evaluate sales technique and courtesy of employees, carries merchandise to check stand or sales counter and observes employees during sales transaction to detect irregularities in listing or calling prices, itemizing merchandise, or handling cash; or delivers purchases to an agency conducting shopping investigation service; and, following any one or more of the above activities, writes a report of investigations for each establishment visited.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 370.)
CA Labor Code § 3070 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 4 - Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship|ARTICLE 1 - Administration|Section 3070.

3070.  There is in the Division of Apprenticeship Standards the California Apprenticeship Council, which shall be appointed by the Governor, composed of six representatives each from employers or employer organizations and employee organizations, that sponsor apprenticeship programs under Section 3071, respectively, geographically selected, and of two representatives of the general public. The Director of Industrial Relations, or his or her permanent and best qualified designee, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or his or her permanent and best qualified designee, and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, or his or her permanent and best qualified designee, and the Chairperson of the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee (Cal-JAC), or his or her permanent and best qualified designee, shall also be members of the California Apprenticeship Council. The chairperson shall be elected by vote of the California Apprenticeship Council. Beginning with appointments in 1985, three representatives each of employers and employees, and one public representative shall serve until January 15, 1989. In 1987, three representatives each of the employers and employees, and one public representative shall serve until January 15, 1991. Any member whose term expires on January 15, 1986, shall continue to serve until January 15, 1987. Thereafter each member shall serve for a term of four years. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term of his or her predecessor shall be appointed for the remainder of that term. Each member of the council shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day of actual attendance at meetings of the council, for each day of actual attendance at hearings by the council or a committee thereof pursuant to Section 3082, and for each day of actual attendance at meetings of other committees established by the council and approved by the Director of Industrial Relations, together with his or her actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in connection therewith.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 704, Sec. 21. (AB 235) Effective September 22, 2018.)
CA Labor Code § 3071 (2021)
2021 California Code|Labor Code - LAB|DIVISION 3 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS|CHAPTER 4 - Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship|ARTICLE 1 - Administration|Section 3071.

3071.  (a) The California Apprenticeship Council shall meet quarterly at a designated date and special meetings may be held at the call of the chair. The council shall issue rules and regulations which establish standards for minimum wages, maximum hours, and working conditions for apprentice agreements in the building and construction trades and for firefighter occupations, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as apprenticeship standards, which in no case shall be lower than those prescribed by this chapter; and shall issue rules and regulations governing equal opportunities in apprenticeship, affirmative action programs which include women and minorities in apprenticeship, and other on-the-job training, and criteria for selection procedures with a view particularly toward eliminating criteria not relevant to qualification for training employment or more stringent than is reasonably necessary.(b) For purposes of this section, “firefighter occupations” means those occupations submitted by the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee and approved by the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.(c) Notwithstanding the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a), if the minimum wages, maximum hours, and working conditions for apprentices in the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program are in conflict with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement with a public employer, the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement shall prevail.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 704, Sec. 22. (AB 235) Effective September 22, 2018.)