Wage Law

The Supreme Court will not review Small v. Superior Court, a published case we discussed in March, in which an Orange County Superior Court ruling declaring invalid a wage order promulgated by the California Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) was reversed by the Fourth District Court of Appeal.  The trial court had ruled that IWC Wage Order No. 16-2001 (wages, hours and working conditions for employees in the on-site construction industry and other occupations) was not accompanied by a sufficient statement of the basis, was not properly published, and contained an unworkable definition of “given craft,” which made the order "unreasonable, arbitrary, capricious and unfair."