Labor Code 2802- Employer Reimbursement

A California employer has a legal obligation to reimburse a California employee for all " necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee". Unfortunately, many California employer fail to adhere to this labor code section or don't know that the law exists and have not complied with law. I have included the entire statute section of Labor Code section 2802 to reference below;

(a) An employer shall indemnify his or her employee for all
necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct
consequence of the discharge of his or her duties, or of his or her
obedience to the directions of the employer, even though unlawful,
unless the employee, at the time of obeying the directions, believed
them to be unlawful.
   (b) All awards made by a court or by the Division of Labor
Standards Enforcement for reimbursement of necessary expenditures
under this section shall carry interest at the same rate as judgments
in civil actions. Interest shall accrue from the date on which the
employee incurred the necessary expenditure or loss.
   (c) For purposes of this section, the term "necessary expenditures
or losses" shall include all reasonable costs, including, but not
limited to, attorney's fees incurred by the employee enforcing the
rights granted by this section.