Floburn checks which timecard, break and safety records you hold, and tells you what is missing.
The records diagnostic is a fixed fee, quoted on a free thirty-minute call, and its written report arrives within fourteen calendar days of the working session. It answers one question, finding by finding: Which of the records a lawyer’s letter could demand do you actually hold? It tells you what whoever pulls your records, your custodian of records, could produce today if that letter arrived tomorrow, and from how many payroll and timekeeping systems.
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.
What MicroForensics is
MicroForensics reads the payroll and time clocks you already run, and Floburn operates the loop every pay period.
MicroForensics™ ingests your hourly timecard data, payroll, and related HR documents to flag missed breaks, unpaid break premiums, wage order errors, and open safety items, then chases each one to a documented fix. It is built to work with the existing payroll and timekeeping you already run, and Floburn runs it for you every pay period.
PAGA, California’s private-enforcement law (Labor Code §2699), names four examples of reasonable steps (§2699(g)(2)): periodic payroll audits with action taken in response, lawful written policies, supervisor training on Labor Code and wage order compliance, and corrective action as to supervisors. The records diagnostic tells you which records behind each of the four you hold. How it runs, step by step, is below.
This page is for a California employer with hourly workers. If you came to have custom software scoped, that is a different engagement: the build diagnostic.
What the report contains
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A finding-by-finding inventory of the records behind each of the four reasonable steps: which exist, which are complete, and which are missing.
Meal and rest sign-offs, sick-leave accruals, training records, equipment certifications, missing signatures, and, for each missed break or late premium in the record, whether a correction was entered next to the original entry.
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A remediation roadmap.
Sorted into what you can fix yourself, what needs a process change, and what needs a lawyer.
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A practice records request, answered from your own records.
We run a lawyer’s records request against what you hold today, and report what it could produce and how long it took.
Through your lawyer, the report also carries a draft of the account your lawyer could give today from the records you have today. The direct track leaves it out: A written narrative about your legal position, produced outside any privilege structure, is a document built to be read by the other side.
The records diagnostic stands on its own. You can take the report and act on it without ever buying anything else from us; it is written for exactly that.
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
One screening question per exposure area, with you and whoever runs payroll. No records needed and nothing to prepare. This call tells us which areas are worth opening, and whether the records diagnostic is worth doing for you. If it is not, we say so.
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Records diagnostic, a fixed fee, quoted on the call
A working session, half a day or a full day, with your records open and the people who run payroll and the floor in the room, and, if it helps, one shift observed on site. Then one written report within fourteen calendar days of the working session: 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, with what it could produce and how long it took. We walk you through it. You can run the records diagnostic directly with Floburn 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, built on the payroll and timekeeping you already run. Your part: access to your systems, a roster, sign-off on anything your workers will see, and a named custodian of records.
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Ongoing service, every pay period
Floburn runs it. You get 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. It is yours throughout, and never held back over money.
Your part
- The parts you already know are thin, named up front. We are mapping where records live; a gap you name yourself costs an hour instead of a week.
Could you find these records today?
- Two weeks of time records exactly as the system exports them, unrounded if the system can do it
- One pay stub for someone who worked a normal week
- Whatever serves as the employee handbook, even if it is three years old
- The written heat illness plan and the injury and illness prevention program, whatever state they are in
Anything you cannot find is itself a finding.
Directly with Floburn, or through your lawyer.
The right route depends on what you want the records diagnostic to do, and we pick it with you on the call. Your lawyer will want the table. In plain terms: The direct route is a contract between you and Floburn, and the report can be demanded in a lawsuit; the counsel route is contracted by your lawyer, who may be able to keep it confidential. The court decides.
| StandardFixed fee | Through counselFixed fee, via counsel | |
|---|---|---|
| Engagement | Floburn ↔ You | Your counsel ↔ You; counsel engages Floburn |
| Privilege | None | Asserted through counsel’s engagement; never a property of the work itself |
| Discovery exposure | Findings discoverable | Findings positioned for protection; privilege is always the court’s determination |
| Defense narrative | Not included — the three-part report only | Included, drafted under counsel direction |
| Timeline | Within 14 calendar days of the working session | 14–21 calendar days from the working session |
| Best fit | Baseline assessment, no specific dispute on the horizon | Post-notice, M&A diligence, prior settlement, board mandate |
Privilege is a function of the engagement structure, not the work itself — and whether it holds is always the court’s determination, which is why the engagement is contracted by counsel, not by us. Be skeptical of anyone who promises more. California privileges are statutory (Evid. Code §911); there is no self-critical-analysis or compliance-audit privilege here, and the Kovel structure counsel may use to bring a consultant inside the attorney-client relationship is federal doctrine, not a California guarantee. One doctrinal point worth stating plainly: Attorney review of a report does not make the report privileged. Assume everything we generate is produced in discovery, and build it so that being produced is fine.
A page to send your lawyer→Start with the call.
The thirty-minute call is session one, the screening pass: one question per exposure area, no records needed. If it is worth opening, we book the working session from there.
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.
Floburn Inc. is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Counsel advises Floburn on system design and does not represent your company; retain your own counsel for advice specific to your situation.