What are the most common risks that cause backpay and misclassified deductions?

Three repeat failures drive exposure: persistent timesheet sync drift, duplicate employee identifiers in exports, and broken lunch/deduction logic that misassigns wage classes or jurisdiction tags.

How do I detect and measure timesheet sync drift?

Trace each punch from mobile capture to payroll import, normalize timezones, and run a nightly 3-way reconcile (field/export/payroll) that reports employee_key, source_hours, exported_hours, delta_hours, export_version and export_token to compute a drift_rate.

How can duplicate pay lines be prevented?

Enforce a canonical employee_key at source, make exports write-once with export_id and version, and implement an import-side dedupe window (for example 900 seconds/15 minutes) to suppress concurrent duplicate exports.

What is the recommended approach for lunch and deduction rules?

Model lunch and deduction logic as data tables (wage_class × shift_duration → lunch_required,deduction_minutes), cover split shifts, overtime and CBA exceptions, and add unit tests for edge cases rather than hard-coded paths.

What pre-payroll validations should I run to avoid misclassified prevailing-wage lines?

Map every line_item to a wage_class and jurisdiction tag, reject exports with untagged or mismatched lines, and surface failures in a pre-payroll validation report plus automated mapping tests.

What is an idempotent export and why is it useful?

An idempotent export uses a unique export_id and version so repeated submissions do not create duplicate pay lines; this simplifies reconciliation, supports write-once exports, and reduces backpay risk.

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