• Learn about your legal responsibilities before your employee begins work Read the employers' bill of rights (.pdf file) Learn about employee's rights (.pdf file)
• Find out about Right to Work laws and union requirements
• Report hiring of new employees
• Report hiring of new contractors

Wage & Hour Rules

• Look up average wages by location and industry
• Current state minimum wage
• Look up prevailing wage rates for public works contracts
• Learn about rules for overtime pay
• Rest periods for adult workers
• Employment laws for child workers
• Find out about child support withholding

Health and Safety

• Worker's compensation
• Workplace health and safety

• State anti-discrimination laws
• Los Angeles
• Fresno
• San Diego
• San Francisco

• Get the required state employment posters for your workplace

• Learn about "final pay" (.pdf file)
• Find out about severance pay and termination wages (.pdf file)