PUNCHGUARD™ FOR DEFENSE COUNSEL
License PunchGuard across your book.
Detect meal period violations across every client, every pay period, before payroll runs. See them all in one firm portfolio. Bill it as a proactive compliance service. Built by a licensed California attorney with 20+ years as in-house counsel and Director of Operations, running the timekeeping and payroll systems these cases are built on.
Illustrative sample data. Not client information.
“Catching meal break violations during quarterly reviews isn't compliance — it's evidence collection.”
How it works for firms
Invite each client.
Ask a client for access by email. They approve it inside their own PunchGuard account, and can end it at any time.
Clients audit every pay period.
Each client uploads a timeclock export from any system, and PunchGuard detects meal period violations before payroll runs. If an export can't support the analysis, we'll tell you first.
Review across your book.
Your firm sees each client's findings on one portfolio view: meal violations, missing punches, and recurring findings by date range.
PORTFOLIO-LEVEL VISIBILITY
Every client. One view.
Violations across every client company.
Meal violations, missing punches, and recurring findings for every client that grants your firm access.
Systemic risk surfaces early.
Recurring findings show which violations repeat across pay periods, so patterns surface before an LWDA notice lands.
Clients stay in control.
Clients grant your firm access and can end it at any time. You see summaries only, never pay rates or individual employees.
What PunchGuard detects
Transaction-level detection across every employee and shift. Where a meal period can be waived by mutual consent, PunchGuard flags the shift for review instead of counting a violation. With pay rates, a client's own report also calculates premium exposure.
No meal period
Shifts over 5 hours with no recorded meal punch.
Short meal period
Meal punches under 30 minutes in duration.
Late meal period
Meal period not started before the 5-hour mark. The 4:59 rule, applied to every shift.
Missing punches
Incomplete punch records, flagged per Donohue v. AMN Services standards.
First meal waiver question
Shifts over 5 and up to 6 hours with no meal recorded. Flagged for review, since the meal may be waived by mutual consent.
Second meal waiver question
Shifts over 10 hours with no second meal recorded. Flagged for review, since a waiver is possible on shifts up to 12 hours.
CASE STUDY · LOS ANGELES OFFICE
$251,834 in modeled exposure before remediation
A 40-employee professional office believed it was compliant. Line-item analysis of two years of timeclock data surfaced systematic meal-period failures and the derivative penalties that follow.
Result from the WCG Forensic Engine applied to two years of timeclock data.
*Dollar figures reflect pay rate data provided for this engagement.
Licensing and data handling
License PunchGuard across your book and offer it to compliance clients as part of your own practice.
Firm licensing
- Flat annual fee, not a percentage of client billings. Contact us for current pricing.
- Priced by firm size. Details provided on request.
- Included in your license. You bill it to clients as part of your own compliance service.
- Portability terms are outlined in your licensing agreement.
Data handling and engagement structure
- Software output does not constitute legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
- Firms see summaries only: never pay rates, files, or individual employee data.
- Clients grant access, and can end it at any time. Only they can start it.
- A change log records every grant and revocation of firm access.
- Data storage and retention details are provided in the Privacy Policy and during onboarding.
- Engagement terms are outlined in your licensing agreement.
See the firm dashboard and a sample transaction audit.
Review an anonymized audit and the firm dashboard.