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# FieldTime Compliance Monitoring for California Labor Law

> FieldTime automatically audits your team's time records against California overtime, meal-break, and prevailing wage rules, surfacing findings before payroll.

FieldTime's compliance engine continuously checks every timesheet against California Labor Code §510 (overtime), §512 (meal breaks), and the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Prevailing Wage determinations. Instead of discovering a problem after payroll runs, you see color-coded findings the moment a threshold is crossed — giving you time to correct entries, record waivers, or accept expected exceptions before you submit.

## What FieldTime Checks

Every time you run an audit on a timesheet, FieldTime evaluates three bodies of rules:

| Rule set        | Statute / Source              | What it checks                                                                                    |
| --------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Overtime        | CA Labor Code §510            | Daily OT (>8 hrs), daily double-time (>12 hrs), weekly OT (>40 hrs), 7th-consecutive-day premiums |
| Meal breaks     | CA Labor Code §512            | First and second meal period timing, duration, and waiver eligibility                             |
| Prevailing wage | California DIR determinations | Shift windows, night differentials, weekend and holiday premiums, zone pay                        |

## Where You See Findings

Compliance findings surface in two places inside FieldTime:

1. **Timesheet view** — The Compliance Audit panel appears below your weekly time entries. Click **Run Audit** to trigger an immediate check against all applicable rules. Findings appear grouped by severity in real time.
2. **Approval dashboard** — Managers and supervisors see an aggregate compliance status badge next to each pending timesheet. Timesheets with unresolved ERROR-level findings cannot be submitted until those findings are addressed.

## Finding Severity Levels

Each finding carries one of three severity levels:

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Compliance Notification" icon="circle-xmark" iconType="solid" color="#dc2626">
    **Severity: ERROR** — Blocks timesheet submission. You must accept, modify, or waive the finding before you can submit the week. These findings indicate a definitive rule violation (e.g., a missed first meal period on a 9-hour day with no waiver on record).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Warning" icon="triangle-exclamation" iconType="solid" color="#d97706">
    **Severity: WARNING** — Displayed prominently but does not block submission. These findings indicate a likely issue worth reviewing, such as a borderline overtime threshold or an incomplete entry that may resolve itself when the day is fully punched.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Info" icon="circle-info" iconType="solid" color="#2563eb">
    **Severity: INFO** — Informational notices that require no action. Common examples include a DIR rate-appendix reference confirming which prevailing wage determination applies to a public works project.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Finding Categories

Findings are grouped into four categories so you can quickly understand the type of issue:

| Category                              | What it covers                                                                                                |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Overtime** (`OVERTIME`)             | All California §510 daily and weekly overtime and double-time violations, including 7th-consecutive-day rules |
| **Meal Break** (`MEAL_BREAK`)         | Missed, short, or waived first and second meal periods under §512                                             |
| **DIR Reference** (`DIR_REFERENCE`)   | Informational notices linking a timesheet entry to the governing prevailing wage determination                |
| **Classification** (`CLASSIFICATION`) | Entries where the labor classification code on a public works project requires review or confirmation         |

## Who Sees Findings

FieldTime applies role-based visibility to compliance findings:

* **Employees** see only their own findings when viewing or submitting their timesheet.
* **Managers and supervisors** see findings for every member of their team on the approval dashboard and can drill into any individual timesheet.
* **Compliance officers** have organization-wide read access to all findings, audit history, and resolved-finding logs.

Resolved findings (accepted, modified, or dismissed) remain visible in a muted state so the audit trail is never deleted.

## Annual Wage-Theft Attestation

Before accessing FieldTime for the first time in each calendar year, every employee must read and acknowledge the annual wage-theft anti-fraud policy, which references 18 U.S.C. §1001 (federal false-statements statute). This gate appears automatically at login and cannot be bypassed. Your attestation is timestamped and stored for audit purposes. If your organization requires re-attestation mid-year (for example, after a policy update), your administrator will trigger a new prompt.

## Explore the Compliance Guides

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  <Card title="CA Labor Code §510 Overtime" icon="clock" href="/compliance/california-labor-code">
    Understand daily and weekly overtime thresholds, 7th-consecutive-day rules, and how FieldTime calculates and flags each violation.
  </Card>

  <Card title="DIR Prevailing Wage" icon="hard-hat" href="/compliance/prevailing-wage">
    Learn how FieldTime applies NorCal, SoCal, and San Diego shift windows, weekend premiums, holiday multipliers, and zone pay to public works timesheets.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Meal Break Compliance" icon="utensils" href="/compliance/meal-breaks">
    See how FieldTime tracks §512 meal break timing, sends reminders, and guides you through recording or waiving a meal period.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Approvals" icon="circle-check" href="/approvals/overview">
    Learn how managers review, approve, and return timesheets — and how compliance findings factor into the approval workflow.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  FieldTime surfaces compliance issues to help you correct them before payroll. Consult your legal counsel for questions about California labor law.
</Note>