We build and run MicroForensics, which catches missed breaks and unpaid premiums for California employers and chases each one to a fix.
MicroForensics™ reads the payroll and time clocks you already run, and Floburn operates the loop every pay period. A missed or short break is caught the pay period it happens and chased to a documented fix, and when a lawyer’s letter demanding records arrives, your custodian of records, the person on your team authorized to produce them, answers it from one place.
Free · 30 minutes · by phone or video. We tell you whether the records diagnostic, a fixed-fee review of your timecard, break and safety records, is worth doing for you, and what it costs. If it is not, we say so.
Years from now, a lawyer will ask for this shift’s timecard.
We catch missed breaks, unpaid break premiums, and open safety items — then chase each one to a documented fix.
- Your time clock may already prompt for breaks. MicroForensics catches each miss the pay period it happens, and the correction is entered next to the original entry.
- Your payroll company pays the hours you report. MicroForensics checks those hours and breaks every pay period.
- A one-time audit shows one point in time. MicroForensics checks every pay period after it.
Built for California employers with hourly workers.
- Construction & specialty trades
- Wine & food/beverage manufacturing
- Senior living & post-acute care
- Agriculture growers & farm labor contractors
- Security guard services
- Independent grocery stores & markets
- Light manufacturing, non-food
- Wholesale distribution & warehouse operations
- Hotels & lodging
- Auto repair & dealership service departments
- Ambulatory healthcare
- Private K-12 schools
- Landscaping services
- Childcare & daycare centers
- Logistics & distribution fleets
Four things a lawyer’s letter usually asks about: missed breaks (§226.7), unpaid overtime (§510), time records you cannot produce (§1174(d)), and final pay that came late (§203). What MicroForensics defends against→
- 8,846
- PAGA notices logged by California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, FY2024–25 — roughly 34 every working day
- Source: LWDA, February 2026 (PDF)
Floburn Inc. is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
Pay period 14 — Jul 1–15
Recorded 3:42 PM · same shift
The window for the 15% PAGA cap closes when an employee or their lawyer asks for records, not when the lawsuit does.
The Private Attorneys General Act (Labor Code §2698 et seq.) lets an aggrieved employee, one who personally suffered each of the violations alleged (§2699(c)(1)), sue for civil penalties on behalf of themselves and other current or former employees affected by the same violations. Under the 2024 reform (AB 2288 and SB 92), Labor Code §2699(g) caps those civil penalties at 15 percent where the employer took all reasonable steps before the PAGA notice, or before a records request under §226, §432 or §1198.5, which usually comes first; §2699(h) caps them at 30 percent for remediation within 60 days after the PAGA notice. A court judges whether your steps were reasonable, looking at all the circumstances, including your size and resources. The cap, and what a court decides.
One production package — the export that answers the letter. Hours, not weeks.
A lawyer’s letter demanding records usually arrives before any lawsuit does, and a §2699 PAGA notice after it. When the letter lands, your custodian of records, not Floburn, produces one production package in hours, not weeks.
Payroll, timekeeping, HR, and safety are reconciled into one record every pay period, so producing it is an export from one place rather than a search across several.
What goes in the package, and how it is produced→How we work with you
A free call, a records diagnostic, and then only what you choose.
The call is free. The records diagnostic is a fixed fee, quoted on the call, and its report is yours whatever you decide next. Every paid step after it is written down in a document you sign before it starts.
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Free 30-minute call, by phone or video
The screening pass: one question per exposure area, with you and whoever runs payroll. No records, nothing to prepare. If the records diagnostic is not worth doing for you, we say so.
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Records diagnostic, a fixed fee, quoted on the call
A half- or full-day working session with your records open. Within fourteen calendar days of the working session, a written report: what your records show, item by item; a roadmap sorted into what you can fix yourself, what needs a process change and what needs a lawyer; and a practice records request answered from your own records. We walk you through it, directly or through your lawyer.
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Implementation, only if you choose it, a separate agreement, signed and priced then
Two to four weeks to go-live, on the payroll and timekeeping you already run.
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Ongoing service, every pay period
Floburn runs it: a weekly digest, a monthly report and a quarterly review. Billed monthly per active worker, on an annual term.
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If you leave, at any time
Your record goes with you in a closing export, as structured files your lawyer or a successor vendor can use without us. It is yours throughout, and never held back over money.
Custom software
We also take a few custom software builds a year. The build diagnostic→