Summarize payroll hours and pay for an underpayment audit
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Summarize, by employee and pay period, the hours and amounts in the payroll file the lawyer supplies, and list each gap in the weeks.
- What the lawyer must review
- 29 U.S.C. § 207 generally requires pay of at least one and one-half times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek. The section sets out exceptions and a definition of the regular rate. You decide whether money is owed, whether an exception applies, and what the regular rate is. State wage law can require more. Check every total against the source record before a figure is used. The summary is not itself a demand. Model Rule 1.6: do not put payroll records into a public tool.
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes summarising source material. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Trace every relied-on figure to its source, confirm dates and assumptions, and independently recalculate totals or derived amounts.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.