Welcome to the Department of Industrial Relations
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE)

Assistance for employees and employers:  Answering your questions

Labor Commissioner adds new phone lines to answer frequent public questions

Deductions

Holidays

Independent Contractors

Lactation Accommodation

Meal Periods

Minimum Wage

Overtime

Paydays, Pay Periods, and Final Wages

Personnel Files and Records

Reporting Time Pay

Rest Periods

Retaliation/Discrimination

Tips and Gratuities

Vacation

Waiting Time Penalty

In order to offer you as much information as possible, the DLSE website contains several sources for assistance.  We recommend that you access basic information provided in our general information lines.  Please also check other links to information provided on this site, such as Publications and Forms which contain information sheets and brochures on many subject matters that are often the topic of questions, and the How To File a Claim sections.  In most cases, you will find an answer to your question.  If, after reviewing all the information offered at these links, you still can't find the answer to your question regarding wage, hour and labor law, please email us at dlse2@dir.ca.gov.