“Manufacturing Industry” means any industry, business, or establishment operated for the purpose of preparing, producing, making, altering, repairing, finishing, processing, inspecting, handling, assembling, wrapping, bottling, or packaging goods, articles, or commodities, in whole or in part; EXCEPT when such activities are covered by Order in the : Canning, Preserving, and Freezing Industry; Industries Handling Products After Harvest; Industries Preparing Agricultural Products for Market, on the Farm; or Motion Picture Industry.
Examples:
- Aircraft and aircraft parts, manufacturing
- Apparel products, manufacturing
- Assembly (any manufacturing)
- Automobile manufacturing
- Auto-wrecking (non-retail)
- Blueprinting
- Book and magazine publishers
- Cement
- Ceramics
- Coating lumber products
- Communications equipment, manufacturing
- Concrete
- Copy making services
- Dental laboratories
- Developing, printing or editing of film
- Electronic products, manufacturing
- Film processing (except in motion picture industry, see Order 12)
- Food manufacture (secondary processing)
- Food processing
The Industrial Welfare Commission was established to regulate wages, hours and working conditions in California. IWC wage orders must be posted by all employers in an area frequented by employees, where they may be easily read during the workday.