California Wage & Hour Litigation Data Analysis
Timecard and payroll data, turned into analysis that holds up under scrutiny — for counsel on either side of Single-Plaintiff, Class Action and PAGA matters.
Nearly 150 California wage-and-hour matters to date, across 90-plus employers: hotels and hospitality, restaurants and food service, healthcare and hospital systems, dental and medical practices, building and janitorial services, staffing agencies, logistics and distribution, construction and equipment rental, cannabis, retail, automotive and telecom, nonprofit and religious organizations, and entertainment.
Exposure and damages
Class and PAGA exposure modeling with adjustable input variables
Damages calculations by employee, department, location, and subgroup
Extrapolation of incomplete periods, with documented assumptions
Violation analysis
Meal and rest period violations — duration, timing, grace period, waiver treatment
Timeclock rounding variance, favorable and unfavorable, by shift and by timestamp set
Regular Rate of Pay recalculation
Overtime and double-time earned versus paid
Class construction and reconciliation
Class size, workweeks, and pay periods
Class-member roster construction, reconciled against timecard and payroll records
Three-way reconciliation of plaintiff timecards, employer timecards, and check registers
Exception handling for missing hire, termination, and wage-rate data
Production and presentation
Sampling methodology and production sets for opposing counsel, with employee identifiers removed
Data reconstruction from PDF timecard productions — OCR, structured entry, and verification against report totals
Case dashboards and summaries built for mediation and court deadlines
Recent engagements have included a meal-period analysis spanning more than 336,000 shifts, a mediation turnaround covering 200,000+ timecard records, and a rounding analysis recalculating 21,436 timeclock entries.
Engagements are scoped to the work, not to a headcount — a week of cleanup, a close cycle, or an ongoing monthly arrangement.
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