Bibliography
Primary and secondary sources, and further reading.
- Primary — wage order. Industrial Welfare Commission, Wage Order No. 7-2001 (Mercantile Industry), Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8, § 11070, and the IWC Statement as to the Basis.
- Primary — statutes. California Labor Code, division 2, part 1 (Wages), including §§ 200–204, 221–224, 226, 226.2, 226.7, 351, 400–410, 510, 512, 515, 558, 1182.12, 1194, 1197, 1198, 2698–2699.8, and 2802.
- Primary — federal baseline. Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201–219; 29 C.F.R. parts 531, 541, 778, 779, and 785; the Portal-to-Portal Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 251–262.
- Agency guidance. California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE), Enforcement Policies and Interpretations Manual; DLSE opinion letters on commissions, suitable seating, reporting time, and split shifts; California Department of Industrial Relations minimum-wage schedule.
- Treatise. Wilcox, California Employment Law (Matthew Bender) — the standard multi-volume California treatise.
- Practice guide. Chin et al., California Practice Guide: Employment Litigation (The Rutter Group).
- Practice guide. Advising California Employers and Employees (Continuing Education of the Bar — CEB).
- Local ordinances. San Francisco Formula Retail Employee Rights Ordinances (the 'Retail Workers' Bill of Rights'), S.F. Police Code arts. 33F–33G; Los Angeles Fair Work Week Ordinance, L.A. Mun. Code ch. XVIII; and parallel predictive-scheduling laws in Berkeley, Emeryville, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Oregon, and Seattle.
- Background. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (retail trade), for the workforce and scheduling context that makes these doctrines bite at scale.
- A note on sources. Citations in this resource link to the Table of Authorities, where each carries a grounding-status badge and the primary-source links used to verify it. Always confirm the current text and treatment of any authority before relying on it.