Under Lab. Code 558.1, an owner, officer, director, or managing agent of the employer may be held liable for the employer’s violation, if the owner, officer, director or managing agent “violates or causes to be violated” an IWC wage order or certain wage and hour sections of the Labor Code. This decision holds that to be liable under section 558.1, the person must either have been personally involved in the purported violation of one or more of the enumerated provisions; or, absent such personal involvement, had sufficient participation in the activities of the employer, including, for example, over those responsible for the alleged wage and hour violations, such that the “owner” may be deemed to have contributed to, and thus for purposes of this statute, “cause[d]” a violation. Here, White was an absentee owner who played no role in the employer’s dealings with its workforce and wasn’t a day-to-day decisionmaker in the employer’s business, leaving that task to a group of managers, instead.