Been there before there is basically 0 enforcement of labor law in California I've been an engineer since 1998, its basically anything goes. I've been fired for doing 40 hours of unpaid overtime when they wanted another 60 for 140 hours a week for 40 hours pay. Its perfectly legal to fire you for "underperformance" for getting 6 hours of sleep instead of 3. I've had employers stop paying me and beg me to work for free but its usually temporary, happens a lot in the industry, its even worse for contractors but being "full time" is not much better, even though we have labor laws they just don't get enforced at all. In a couple of decades I've never seen labor laws followed or enforced in California.