Section 558.1 of the California Labor Code provides that a “person acting on behalf of an employer” may be liable “as the employer” for violating, or causing to be violated, any provision regulating minimum wages or hours and days of work in any order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, or violating, or causing to be violated, Sections 203, 226, 226.7, 1193.6, 1194, or 2802 of the Labor Code. The statute defines a “person acting on behalf of the employer” as being limited to a natural person who is an owner, director, officer, or managing agent of the employer, and the term “managing agent” has the same meaning as in Section 3294(b) of the California Civil Code.
