Articles

The rules behind time and pay, in plain words, each with its sources and the date it was last reviewed. Not legal advice.

California#

• California meal and rest break rulesWhen each break is due, what makes it late, and the extra hour of pay a missed one costs.
• California overtime, double time and the seventh dayDaily overtime after 8 hours, double time after 12, the seventh day, and how weekly overtime fits.
• Time clock rounding in CaliforniaWhy rounding punches is risky when you can record exact minutes, and why meal punches are never rounded.
• California paid sick leaveHow sick leave builds, the use and balance caps, and what must be on the pay stub.

Federal and other states#

• Meal and rest break laws by stateWhich states require meal or rest breaks for adults, when, and which ones attach a pay penalty.
• Semi-monthly pay periods and weekly overtimeWhy overtime is counted by workweek even when pay periods run the 1st to the 15th.
• Reporting qualified overtime on the W-2 in 2026Only the FLSA overtime premium counts, which means telling federal overtime apart from state overtime.

NetSuite and payroll#

• Paycom earning codes for California premiumsWhy Regular and PTO are not enough, and the codes to set up before the first payroll.
• NetSuite time entries, explainedTime bills, weekly timesheets, approval status, and how a field app should write hours into NetSuite.
• NetSuite timesheets or a field time app?What NetSuite's own time tracking does well, where crews outgrow it, and what to ask of an app beside it.

Privacy#

• Tracking employee location: what the law asksLocation as sensitive data in California, notice rules in other states, and why checking only at the punch is enough.