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Our Sources & Verification Methodology

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Every legal rule, headcount threshold, wage figure, and penalty cited on EmployerLawCheck is tied directly to a primary, official government publication. We do not synthesize artificial benchmark numbers, rely on unsourced third-party blog posts, or publish unverified statutory summaries.

Primary Government Sources

Our legal repository is assembled exclusively from authoritative primary government authorities:

  • Federal Authorities: United States Code (U.S.C.), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division publications, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance.
  • State Labor Agencies: Official state administrative codes, state statutes, and publications from state labor departments (such as the California Department of Industrial Relations, New York Department of Labor, and Texas Workforce Commission).
  • Municipal and County Authorities: Municipal ordinances, city administrative codes, and city labor offices (such as the Los Angeles Office of Wage Standards, Seattle Office of Labor Standards, and Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection).

Three-Tier Jurisdiction Layering

American labor law operates on the principle that the most protective standard for employees generally governs. However, determining which rule governs requires evaluating coverage thresholds, employee classifications, and statutory preemption.

Rather than attempting to guess a single winning number that might not apply to your specific employee classification, EmployerLawCheck preserves all three applicable jurisdictional layers—federal, state, and city—in full view. Every entry explicitly states the employee headcount threshold and industry conditions that trigger the requirement.

Automated Monitoring and Human Verification

We track statutory developments through a dual-engine architecture:

  1. Automated Source Watchers: Scheduled worker processes monitor registered official government URLs on defined schedules (daily, weekly, or monthly) using cryptographic SHA-256 content hashing to identify published regulatory amendments.
  2. Editorial Verification: When a source webpage changes, our monitoring system captures a timestamped snapshot candidate. Authorized compliance reviewers verify the primary documentation before updating rule figures, effective dates, or penalty texts in our public database.

Every published rule card displays the verified government source name, direct hyperlinked URL to the agency website, and the exact date the rule was last checked by our team.