California Labor Code

§ 2695.4

LAB § 2695.4 Effective Sep 13, 2023Div. 2 · Part 12

Statute text

(a)(1) For a goat herder employed on a regularly scheduled 24-hour shift on a seven-day-a-week “on-call” basis, an employer may, as an alternative to paying the minimum wage for all hours worked, instead pay no less than the monthly minimum wage specified in Section 4(E) of Wage Order No. 14-2001 of the Industrial Welfare Commission. Any goat herder who performs non-goat-herding work on any workday shall be fully covered for that workweek by the provisions of any applicable laws or regulations relating to that work.

(2)The amount of the monthly minimum wage permitted under paragraph (1) shall be increased each time that the state minimum wage is increased and shall become effective on the same date as any increase in the state minimum wage. The amount of the increase shall be determined by calculating the percentage increase of the new rate over the previous rate, and then by applying the same percentage increase to the minimum monthly wage rate.

(3)An employer shall not credit meals or lodging against the minimum wage owed to goat herders under this subdivision. Every employer shall provide to each goat herder not less than the minimum monthly meal and lodging benefits required to be provided by employers of goat herders under the provisions of the H-2A visa program of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101) or any successor provisions.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 196, Sec. 20. (SB 143) Effective September 13, 2023. Repealed as of July 1, 2026, by its own provisions.