California Wage Order #4 – Professional, Technical, Clerical, Mechanical and Similar Occupations
The California Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) Wage Orders regulate wages, hours and working conditions. Employers must comply with the IWC Wage Order and California labor laws applicable to their business or industry.
“Professional, Technical, Clerical, Mechanical and Similar Occupations includes:
- Professional
- Semiprofessional
- Managerial
- Supervisory
- Laboratory
- Research
- Technical
- Clerical
- Office work
- Mechanical occupations
Covered Occupations:
- Accountants
- Agents
- Appraisers
- Artists
- Attendants
- Audio-visual technicians
- Bookkeepers
- Bundlers
- Billposters
- Canvassers
- Carriers
- Cashiers
- Checkers
- Clerks
- Collectors
- Communications and sound technicians
- Compilers
- Copy holders
- Copy readers
- Copy writers
- Computer programmers and operators
- Demonstrators and display representatives
- Dispatchers
- Distributors
- Door-keepers
- Drafters
- Elevator operators
- Estimators
- Editors
- Graphic arts technicians
- Guards
- Guides
- Hosts
- Inspectors
- Installers
- Instructors
- Interviewers
- Investigators
- Librarians
- Laboratory workers
- Machine operators
- Mechanics
- Mailers
- Messengers
- Medical/dental technicians
- Models
- Nurses
- Packagers
- Photographers
- Porters and cleaners
- Process servers
- Printers
- Proof readers
- Sales persons and agents
- Secretaries
- Sign erectors
- Sign painters
- Social workers
- Solicitors
- Statisticians
- Stenographers
- Teachers
- Telephone
- Radio-telephone
- Telegraph and call-out operators
- Tellers
- Ticket agents
- Tracers
- Typists
- Vehicle operators
- X-ray technicians
Posting Requirement:
California Labor Code section 1183(d) provides, “Every employer who is subject to an order of the commission shall post a copy of the order and keep it posted in a conspicuous location frequented by employees during the hours of the workday.”
Information Covered:
Each California Wage Order covers regulations on topics such as:
- Administrative, executive and professional exemptions;
- Overtime wages;
- Alternative workweeks;
- Minimum wages;
- Reporting time pay;
- Records retention;
- Cash shortage and breakage;
- Uniforms and equipment;
- Meals and lodging;
- Meal periods;
- Rest periods; and
- Required posting of the order.