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Correction Policy & Editorial Accountability

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At EmployerLawCheck, accuracy and transparency are our highest operational priorities. Given the rapid pace of legislative enactments, municipal ballot measures, and administrative rulemakings across hundreds of US jurisdictions, errors or delays in reporting can occur. We maintain a strict, accountable, and publicly visible procedure for receiving error notices and publishing corrections.

How We Handle Discrepancies

When a user, attorney, regulatory agency, or researcher identifies an inaccuracy or an outdated figure in our database, we apply the following editorial workflow:

  1. Report Submission: Suspected errors should be reported via our Contact channel. Reports must specify the exact URL, the disputed text or figure, and provide a direct hyperlink or citation to the governing primary government source.
  2. Expedited Review: Our compliance team investigates the report against official statutes, municipal registers, and agency guidance within two business days.
  3. Audit Trail Logging: When an entry is corrected or amended, our database automatically generates an immutable change record. The system records the modified fields, old values, new values, timestamp, and responsible editorial actor.
  4. Public Publication on /changes: Every substantive legal update (including wage adjustments, employee headcount threshold modifications, statutory citations, and penalty revisions) is immediately published to our public change log at /changes.

Substantive vs. Verification Changes

We distinguish between routine verification checks and substantive legal amendments:

  • Substantive Changes: Any alteration to a wage rate, overtime multiplier, leave accrual schedule, headcount threshold, effective date, or penalty text triggers an entry in the public audit trail.
  • Verification Updates: Merely re-checking an agency URL and updating the verification timestamp confirms ongoing validity but is not published as a legal change, keeping our public change feed focused strictly on regulatory shifts.

Archival Integrity & Retroactive Rules

Historical legal entries are never silently deleted. When statutes expire, are repealed, or are superseded by subsequent legislation, the system preserves the historical rule record with its corresponding effective and end dates. When courts invalidate an ordinance or enact retroactive revisions, our editorial notes document the judicial ruling and preserve the prior text for retrospective auditing. If you believe any entry on this site is incorrect, incomplete, or ambiguous, we invite your review and prompt submission.