The records
What has to be kept, for how long, and what happens when the records are not there.
What Has to Be Kept
The records that make a wage calculation provable, why raw timestamps matter more than computed hours, and six items most cannot produce.
How Long, and Where
Building a retention schedule for wage records, why claim windows should drive the period, and the migrations that destroy data quietly.
What an Inspection Asks For
The records an inspection typically asks for, why the gaps are usually deliberate decisions nobody remembers making, and how to prepare without a fire drill.
Reconstructing a Week Without Records
What to do when the time records for a period are gone, the systems that hold the work indirectly, and how to label a reconstruction so it is worth something.
The Audit You Run Yourself
A one-day wage audit anybody can run with data they already hold, what it reliably finds, and why one employee is a better starting point than a sample.
Records Held by Somebody Else
When the time data, the payroll or the workforce belongs to a third party: four questions to settle, and who answers when somebody asks.
A Chain That Can Be Explained
The whole collection on one page: the links, their owners, the tests and the records that make a wage calculation explicable.