In order to conceal underpayment, a willfully violating employer must falsify the payroll report as it pertains to one or more of these factors. Look for excessive use of laborers over mechanics. Workers are performing mechanic's duties but are misclassified and paid at lower Laborers' wage rates. Too few or irregular hours. Most people are on a 40-hour workweek.
Most crews work together on a job site.
Most employers and employees track work hours by whole, half and quarter hours not by tenths or hundredths. Actual gross wages based on lower rate of pay. Discrepancies in wage computations. Look for unidentified or disproportionate deductions, for example an employee whose savings account deduction is nearly as much or more than weekly take home pay. Routine CPR review results can be communicated informally and documented with memo to the file.