California’s Labor Code, in Division 1, Chapter 4, provides for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) and the Labor Commissioner (LC). Labor Code Section 79 established the DLSE within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). The DLSE is under an executive officer who is the Chief of the DLSE, appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
The DLSE’s headquarters is located in San Francisco. The DLSE’s employees are required to devote their full time to the work of the DLSE and receive their actual, necessary traveling expenses. The DLSE is also required to maintain offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, Oakland, Fresno, San Jose, and in other places as the Labor Commissioner may deem necessary.
Section 82 provides the DLSE succeeds to, and is vested with, all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Division of Labor Law Enforcement, which was abolished. Section 83 provides the DLSE succeeds to, and is vested with, all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Division of Industrial Welfare, which was abolished.
Section 89 requires the DLSE to have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property, real or personal, held for the benefit or use of the Division of Labor Law Enforcement and the Division of Industrial Welfare with respect to the functions transferred to...
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