Legal Opinion
Livadas v. Bradshaw
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 13, 1994No. 92-1920PublishedCited by 1,115 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
California law requires employers to pay all wages due immediately upon an employee’s discharge, imposes a penalty for refusal to pay promptly, precludes any private contractual waiver of these minimum labor standards, and places responsibility for enforcing these provisions on the State Commissioner of Labor (Commissioner or Labor Commissioner), ostensibly for the benefit of all employees. Respondent, the Labor Commissioner, 1 has construed a further provision of state law as barring enforcement of these wage and penalty claims on behalf of individuals like petitioner, whose terms and…
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