Compliance Assessment

Assess Your Wage & Hour Compliance Posture

A structured review of your reported practices. Each result links to the relevant legal framework. Answers stay in this browser.

Salary alone does not establish an exemption. Answer for the employees and pay systems to which each rule applies. Choose Not applicable only after checking coverage; the tool records that choice without confirming the exemption or treating it as compliance.

For illustrative purposes only. Actual exposure depends on case-specific facts. This self-assessment records your answers; it does not verify compliance, predict liability, or apply an industry-specific exemption. Review the underlying policies, payroll and time records.
Reference

Topic Areas

Lab. Code § 512

Meal Periods

Brinker’s duty to provide breaks, Donohue’s treatment of meal records, premium pay and derivative claims.

Wage Orders

Rest Periods

Rest-period timing, Augustus’s duty-free requirement, Ferra’s premium calculation and defense evidence.

Lab. Code §§ 510, 1194

Regular Rate & Overtime

Daily and weekly overtime, qualifying compensation, Alvarado’s flat-sum bonus calculation and commissioned-employee exemptions.

Lab. Code § 226

Wage Statements

Section 226’s required elements, knowing-and-intentional failure, statutory injury and Naranjo’s good-faith defense.