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2025 California Code
Labor Code - LAB
DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION
PART 2 - WORKING HOURS
CHAPTER 1 - General
Section 500.
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CA Labor Code § 500 (2025)
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500. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) “Workday” and “day” mean any consecutive 24-hour period commencing at the same time each calendar day.
(b) “Workweek” and “week” mean any seven consecutive days, starting with the same calendar day each week. “Workweek” is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours, seven consecutive 24-hour periods.
(c) “Alternative workweek schedule” means any regularly scheduled workweek requiring an employee to work more than eight hours in a 24-hour period.
(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 134, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2000.)
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