Compliance
Wage and hour rules by state.
Overtime, meal periods and rest breaks for field crews, one page per rule, each cited to the statute or wage order it comes from with a link to the primary text.
The list is deliberately short. It covers exactly the rules our engine implements and our test suite asserts - a page here describing a rule we do not compute would be the same unverifiable marketing everyone else publishes. Where we fall short of a rule, the page says so; 6 of the 14 below carry a limitation.
California
The hardest state in the country to get right, and the one where getting it wrong is most expensive. California layers daily overtime, double time, a seventh-day premium, meal and rest periods and a split-shift premium on top of the federal weekly rule, and it lets employees enforce most of it themselves.
California overtime rules
Cal. Labor Code § 510(a)
California double-time rules
Cal. Labor Code § 510(a)
California seventh-consecutive-day rules
Cal. Labor Code § 510(a); Mendoza v. Nordstrom (2017) 2 Cal.5th 1074
California meal break rules
Cal. Labor Code § 512(a)
Carries a stated limitation
California rest break rules
IWC Wage Order 4, § 12(A)
Carries a stated limitation
California split-shift premium
IWC Wage Order 4, § 4(C); DLSE Enforcement Manual 45.3.4
Carries a stated limitation
California alternative workweek (4/10) rules
Cal. Labor Code § 511; IWC Wage Order 4, § 3(B)
Colorado
Colorado sets its own daily overtime threshold and meal rule through the COMPS Order, which is reissued periodically - check the current year's number before relying on it.
Nevada
Nevada's daily overtime rule is unusual: whether it applies at all depends on what the individual employee earns relative to minimum wage, which makes it the one state rule we cannot configure correctly per company.
Oregon
Oregon's meal rule is inclusive at the threshold and steps again at 14 hours, which catches long storm-response and harvest days.
Washington
Washington's first meal rule is straightforward; its second is defined relative to the employer's own normal workday, which no fixed hour number can express.
Alaska
Alaska is one of the small number of states with a daily overtime threshold on top of the federal weekly rule.
Verified against primary sources on August 3, 2026. Statutes and wage orders change. Punchless is not a law firm and this is not legal advice - what this is, is specific enough that your employment attorney can check it. See also the tests behind each rule and GPS tracking laws by state.