Crewhour gives California employers minute-by-minute compliance, immutable audit trails, and a clock-in that managers, employees, and lawyers all trust.
California's meal and rest break rules generate more wage-and-hour litigation than any other category. A single missed attestation can mean one hour of premium pay per day, per employee, going back years.
Drivers run on weekly 40-hour OT. Mechanics and office staff run on daily 8/12-hour OT. Off-the-shelf clocks treat them the same — and your payroll quietly bleeds.
If a manager can edit yesterday's clock-in, so can an attorney's hypothetical. Most legacy systems mutate records in place. You can't prove what you can't preserve.
Meal premiums, 5th & 10th-hour thresholds, rest-break attestations, daily & weekly OT — modeled, calculated, and recorded the way the labor code reads. Not bolted on as an afterthought.
Field workers punch from the truck. Office staff punch from the browser. Yard kiosks handle the rest. Device-level restrictions enforce policy — lunch from mobile only, clock-in from the yard kiosk. One source of truth.
Original punches never change. Every adjustment is a new event with the manager, the timestamp, the reason, and the approval chain attached. When the demand letter arrives, you hand over the log.
Every day, every employee, every timecard reduces to one of four states. Managers, payroll, HR, and the employee themselves see the same color at the same time.
Your workforce isn't sitting at desks. Crewhour meets them on the kiosk in the yard, the phone in their pocket, the browser at the front desk. Device restrictions and geofence rules keep policy enforced without slowing anyone down.
Every punch is an event. Adjustments are new events. Approvals are new events. Nothing gets edited; everything gets appended. The full chain — who, when, where, why — sits one query away from any investigator, attorney, or curious employee.
The full list of California-specific rules and workflows Crewhour models out of the box. Not features — table stakes.
Tracks duration, blocks early returns, flags shortfall as violation.
Second and third meal break requirements modeled by daily hours worked.
One hour MPP automatically calculated when operational need triggers it.
End-of-shift confirmation flow with verbatim statutory language.
Employee certifies the day's record using the legally required text.
Correct overtime model for DOT-regulated drivers, separate from non-drivers.
1.5× after 8 hours daily, 2× after 12, plus the standard weekly 40 rule.
Push notification before a violation would occur. Most preventable failure mode.
Reporting-time pay scenarios surfaced before they hit payroll.
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