Simplify and streamline regulatory adherence for minimized compliance risk.
Keep up with evolving meal and rest break law requirements.
While meal and rest breaks are not mandated by federal law, many individual states have specific break rules you need to follow. In fact, 21 states have meal break laws1, and 9 states have rest period laws2 that organizations need to adhere to. As these laws become increasingly complex and require documented proof of compliance accurate time and labor management is more critical than ever because failure to comply can lead to serious financial consequences and other repercussions such as noncompliance lawsuits, audits by the Department of Labor, and other agencies, reputational damage, employee relations, and union grievances.
To ensure meal and break compliance, employers can set up reminders in their TreeRing Time™ to notify managers when employees are approaching 4.5 hours without a break or to enforce minimum break lengths.
Suppose an employer does not provide an employee with a compliant meal period in California. In that case, premium pay can be setup in TreeRing Time for any non-compliant meal breaks.
TreeRing Time’s integrated attestation tools, built right into the platform, gives both managers and employees the tools needed to make it easier to comply with meal break and rest period laws.
Your organization can see these important benefits when using the attestation tools:
• Empower employees to attest to their meal and rest breaks when automatically prompted as they punch out
• Simplify monitoring and reporting on employee attestation of their breaks
• Demonstrate compliance through auditable proof of employee attestation
• Reduce compliance risk by helping to ensure you are following all state meal and rest break rules
Manage compliance with robust reporting
Attestation is a great way to keep a record of meal and rest break activity so that you can report on the penalties waived and paid and know precisely where you fall in terms of compliance.
TreeRing Time offers powerful reporting to help mangers monitor employee attestation, identify trends, and demonstrate compliance. Easy access to comprehensive attestation data empowers managers to process employee timesheets more effectively and stay up to date with employee status. And with a full audit report, you can have a detailed record of all employee prompts and captured responses, which clearly demonstrates compliance efforts in the event of an audit.
Attestation reporting helps organize employee attestation activities so that managers can monitor trends and act as new ones arise.
If this new ruling changes your needs, or you have questions about how to set things up in your system, we are here to help. Contact us today to discuss your needs.
1Minimum Length of Meal Period Required Under State Law for Adult Employees in Private Sector 1. U.S. Department of Labor. Accessed at: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/meal-breaks
2Minimum Paid Rest Period Requirements Under State Law for Adult Employees in Private Sector. U.S. Department of Labor. Accessed at: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/meal-breaks