California Labor Guidance
Free plain-English summaries of opinion letters, administrative policies, and interpretive notices from California's labor agency, with the current status and the official source on every page.
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Child labor rules apply to minors filmed in reality television
A production company asked whether California's entertainment-industry child labor laws apply to minors appearing in an unscripted "reality" television show, given there's no script and the goal is to…
Child labor: minors under 16 barred from construction work, no volunteer exception
A state assemblymember asked the Department of Industrial Relations to clarify its enforcement of child labor law on construction sites, including whether volunteers, family businesses, or non-profit …
Student interns still need a minor work permit even if not legal 'employees' under the wage orders
An employer's attorney asked DLSE to confirm that students in a proposed school-partnered internship program were not "employees" under the wage orders and that the company need not obtain work permit…
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These are official interpretive documents from California's labor agency: opinion letters answering questions from employers and workers, administrative policies, and interpretive notices. They show how the agency applies wage-and-hour and workplace law to real situations, but they are guidance, not statutes or court decisions, and the agency can supersede or withdraw them. Every page above shows the document's current status, when that status was last verified, and a link to the official source.