Chapter 5. Industrial Welfare Commission
Group 3. Regulations Governing Wage Boards

Article 1. Regulations Governing Wage Boards

§11534. Evidence and Argument to Be Submitted to Wage Board.

(a) Each wage board shall consider such data as is submitted to it by the Commission. Additional information necessary to the deliberations of the wage board shall be furnished by the Commission upon request of the chairperson of the wage board, insofar as feasible. Any documentary material used by the wage board shall become a part of the record and shall be delivered to the Commission with the report of recommendations.

(b) Any interested person may file information or argument in writing with the commission for presentation to the wage board. Any person submitting written materials shall supply copies for each member of the pertinent wage board and ten (10) additional copies for the Commission and staff. Such written material must be received at the Commission office, P.O. Box 603, San Francisco, California, 94101, at least fifteen (15) days prior to the first meeting of the wage board as designated in the public notice.

(c) Immediately upon its receipt the Commission shall deliver to the wage board for its consideration all written materials received in accordance with section 11534(b).

(d) Oral presentations shall not be accepted from members of the public during wage board conferences. If any wage board, by unanimous vote, determines that oral testimony is necessary to its deliberations, the chairperson may ask the Commission to subpoena a witness, in accordance with Labor Code section 1176.

NOTE: Authority cited: Sections 1173 and 1179, Labor Code. Reference: Sections 1173, 1176, 1178, 1178.5 and 1179, Labor Code.

HISTORY

1. Editorial correction of printing errors (Register 91, No. 32).