Cal. Labor Code § 223 : California Labor Code — Employment Regulation And Supervision — Payment Of Wages — General Occupations — Payments below scale Date: 15 Sep 2016 TEXT PDF Current through the 2016 Legislative Session Where any statute or contract requires an employer to maintain the designated wage scale, it shall be unlawful to secretly pay a lower wage while purporting to pay the wage designated by statute or by contract. Ca. Lab. Code § 223