General
Cal. LAB § 510
California Statutes
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a) Eight hours of labor constitutes a day’s work. Any work in excess of eight hours in one workday and any work in excess of hours in any one workweek and the first eight hours worked on the seventh day of work in any one workweek shall be compensated at the rate of no less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for an employee. Any work in excess of hours in one day shall be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay for an employee. In addition, any work in excess of eight hours on any seventh day of a workweek shall be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay of an employee. Nothing in this
section requires an employer to combine more than one rate of overtime compensation in order to calculate the amount to be paid to an employee for any hour of overtime work. The requirements of this
section do not apply to the payment of overtime compensation to an employee working pursuant to any of the following:
(1) An alternative workweek
schedule adopted pursuant to
Section 511.
(2) An alternative workweek
schedule adopted pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to
Section 514.
(3) An alternative workweek
schedule to which this
chapter is inapplicable pursuant to
Section 554. (
b) Time spent commuting to and from the first place at which an employee’s presence is required by the employer shall not be considered to be a part of a day’s work, when the employee commutes in a vehicle that is owned, leased, or subsidized by the employer and is used for the purpose of ridesharing, as defined in
Section of the Vehicle Code. (
c) This
section does not affect, change, or limit an employer’s liability under the workers’ compensation law.