Rivera v. Division of Industrial Welfare

This is a mandate action to compel the State Department of Industrial Relations and the Division of Industrial Welfare to enforce orders regulating minimum wages, maximum hours and working conditions of women and minors employed in agricultural and allied pursuits, also to compel vacation of partial restraints against enforcement which have been issued by the Superior Courts of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Petitioners Rivera and Graham are female agricultural workers who sue for themselves and on behalf of the class of women and minors employed by growers and packers affected by the wage…