Section 1391.2 Of Chapter 3. Working Hours From California Labor Code >> Division 2. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 3.
1391.2
. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1391 and 1391.1, any minor
under 18 years of age who has been graduated from a high school
maintaining a four-year course above the eighth grade of the
elementary schools, or who has had an equal amount of education in a
private school or by private tuition, or who has been awarded a
certificate of proficiency pursuant to Section 48412 of the Education
Code, may be employed for the same hours as an adult may be employed
in performing the same work.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of the orders of the Industrial
Welfare Commission, no employer shall pay any minor described in
this section in his employ at wage rates less than the rates paid to
adult employees in the same establishment for the same quantity and
quality of the same classification of work; provided, however, that
nothing herein shall prohibit a variation of rates of pay for such
minors and adult employees engaged in the same classification of work
based upon a difference in seniority, length of service, ability,
skill, difference in duties or services performed, whether regularly
or occasionally, difference in the shift or time of day worked, hours
of work, or other reasonable differentiation, when exercised in good
faith.