Compliance Analytics for HR Teams Operating Under Post-Reform PAGA
California’s wage & hour landscape changed in 2024 and is being formalized in 2026. Scaled Comp gives HR teams the structured compliance evidence required by AB 2288 / SB 92 and the LWDA’s 2026 regulatory framework — surfaced from your own time records, documented to the standard the new administrative process expects.
Why This Matters in 2026
The 2024 PAGA reforms (AB 2288 / SB 92) created new compliance pathways for California employers. The LWDA’s proposed 2026 regulations operationalize them. For HR teams, defensible compliance documentation is no longer a best practice — it’s the entry ticket to the new administrative process.
Reasonable Steps Defense
AB 2288 / SB 92 limit penalty exposure for employers who can document a good-faith effort to comply. The standard requires evidence — not assertions. Scaled Comp produces the structured record the LWDA and courts expect to see.
33-Day Cure Process
The 2026 framework gives employers a 33-day window to respond to alleged violations and propose a cure. Without quantified, audit-ready compliance data on hand, that window closes before HR can mount a credible response.
2026 Documentation Standards
The proposed regulations introduce formal documentation requirements for cure proposals and reasonable-steps records. Generic compliance reports won’t meet the bar. Scaled Comp’s outputs are built to the new standard.
What HR Teams Gain
A defensible compliance posture, built from your own data — before a plaintiff’s firm files a notice or the LWDA opens an inquiry.
Lower Penalty Exposure
Surface and address meal break, rest break, and wage statement issues before they aggregate into a PAGA notice. Document the steps you took, when you took them, and what you fixed.
Defensible Compliance Record
An evidentiary trail aligned to the “reasonable steps” standard under AB 2288 / SB 92. Built to support cure proposals and the 2026 documentation requirements without retrofitting.
Risk Identification
High-risk locations, managers, and shift patterns ranked by violation density. Where your exposure actually lives — so policy, training, and remediation dollars go where they matter.
Audit-Ready Documentation
Structured outputs HR can hand directly to defense counsel, internal investigators, or the LWDA. Built for the procedural realities of the new administrative process — not an afterthought.
Built for HR Teams Like Yours
Scaled Comp is used by the people who own compliance outcomes inside California employers — not by abstract “the business.”
HR Leadership
Strategic owners of compliance posture and risk — the people who will be asked, in deposition or before the LWDA, what reasonable steps were taken and when.
Payroll & Operations
The teams running timekeeping, payroll, and reconciliation. Scaled Comp validates that recorded time matches paid time and surfaces structural data issues before they compound.
Field & Multi-Site HR
HR Business Partners and field HR running compliance across locations. Location-level violation density and manager-level risk identification turn site visits and remediation into targeted work.
How a Project Runs
A typical engagement is structured, predictable, and built to deliver evidence HR and counsel can use.
Send Your Time Records
Export from any timekeeping system — format flexible. Scaled Comp normalizes punches, reconstructs shifts, and flags data quality issues up front.
Compliance Analysis Runs
The Analyzer applies California meal & rest break rules, waiver logic, overtime triggers, and wage statement checks to every shift — deterministically and reproducibly.
Receive Structured Outputs
Violation summaries, cleaned datasets, risk identification, reasonable-steps documentation, and a transparent data quality log. Ready for HR review and counsel handoff.
Built With Defense Counsel Insight
Scaled Comp was built in collaboration with experienced California wage & hour defense attorneys. The Analyzer reflects how compliance evidence is actually used — in cure negotiations, LWDA submissions, depositions, and before juries — not how a generic compliance dashboard imagines it might be.
The result: outputs designed for the documents and decisions HR teams and their counsel actually have to produce.
Reduce Exposure Before Claims Are Filed
Whether you’re running a proactive audit ahead of the 2026 regulatory framework or responding to a 33-day cure window, Scaled Comp delivers the compliance evidence HR and counsel need.