Lab. Code, § 2786 · Article 1.5. Worker Status: Employees
Lab. Code, § 2786
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
In addition to any other remedies available, an action for injunctive relief to prevent the continued misclassification of employees as independent contractors may be prosecuted against the putative employer in a court of competent jurisdiction by the Attorney General, by a district attorney, or by a city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, or by a city attorney in a city and county or, with the consent of the district attorney, by a city prosecutor in a city having a full-time city prosecutor in the name of the people of the State of California upon their own complaint or upon the complaint of a board, officer, person, corporation, or association.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 38, Sec. 2. (AB 2257) Effective September 4, 2020.
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