State of California v. Industrial Accident Commission

Despite petitioner’s assertion that Aid Retarded Children, Ine. merely simulated an employment relationship with the present participant in its program to train him to act as a future employee, there were enough elements of the real relation here to sustain the Industrial Accident Commission’s finding that such employment existed. Nor does Labor Code section 3352, subdivision (c), preclude applicant’s recovery on the ground that he performed services in return for aid from a charitable organization ■ applicant occupied the status of an employee rather than that of a mere donee of charity.…