Meal Compliance
Automated meal break waiver management with behavior detection and compliance enforcement.
Meet the agent
This app ships with a production AI agent — permission-aware, tenant-scoped, audit-logged, and governed by the Agent Development Lifecycle.
Meal Compliance AI
Meal-period attestation for regulated states. Audit-ready.
Overview
Meal Compliance links employee meal break behavior (from timesheets and attendance) with required legal documentation (waivers). With autonomous mode on, the system checks break patterns every four hours, flags behavior changes and employees waiving meals with no waiver, and — with auto-invalidation turned on — proposes retiring stale waivers for admin approval, while expiry reminders keep employees and managers ahead of renewals — turning a manual HR liability into a behavior-aware compliance safety net.
Detect meal-break patterns from clock punches, generate and e-sign voluntary meal-waiver PDFs, and surface compliance gaps where employees waive meals without an active waiver.
Highlights
Capabilities
Behavior Detection from Time & Attendance
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Meal-break pattern detection from clock punches (waiving / taking / inconsistent)
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Configurable detection window (7–90 days)
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Behavior-change detection against the employee's active waiver
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Confidence score computed for each detected change
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Per-employee behavior history log
Waivers & E-Signature
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Create waivers with a US-state jurisdiction tag, validity dates, location, and notes
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Auto-generated waiver PDF with voluntary-consent legal language
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One-click send for e-signature via the OneMango E-Signature app
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Waiver lifecycle: draft → pending signature → active → invalidated / expired
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Auto-activate the waiver when the signature completes
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E-signature requirement toggle (on / off)
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Manual invalidation with a recorded reason
Compliance Reporting & Gaps
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Compliance-gap report: employees waiving meals with no active waiver
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Gap report filterable by location
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Dashboard KPIs: active, pending, invalidated, behavior alerts
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Workforce coverage percentage
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Waiver register with status tabs and live counts
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CSV export (formula-injection-safe)
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Premium pay owed for violations One hour at the base rate per day for a meal violation and for a rest violation, where the state's break rule turns it on and break enforcement is set to Enforcing.
Autonomous AI Actions
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AI opportunity detection (meal-break behavior changes)
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Compliance-gap alert to the employee's manager (needs autonomous mode for behavior detection)
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Expiry renewal reminder to the employee and their manager, with or without autonomous mode
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Autonomous waiver invalidation on behavior change (approval-gated)
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Configurable confidence threshold before AI acts
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Daily cap on autonomous actions
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Trust tiers: probation / standard / trusted Selectable, but Meal Compliance asks before every action at every trust level.
Notifications
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Email: waiver ended, or withdrawal on file (employee)
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Email: waiver expiring soon (employee and manager)
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Email: employee withdrew or declined (manager)
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Email: waiver ended by HR or the app (manager)
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Email: compliance-gap alert to the manager
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Email: meal-break behavior change detected
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In-app and push notifications
Ask AI Assistant
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Check any employee's waiver status in chat
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List and filter waivers by status
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Find compliance gaps (HR and app admins)
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Pull compliance summary and coverage metrics
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Create, send, activate or end a waiver from chat, with confirmation (managers for their reports, HR for anyone)
Limits & Specs
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Behavior detection window: 7–90 days (default 14)
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Minimum days for reliable detection: 1–14 (default 3)
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Default waiver expiry: 30–730 days (default 365)
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Expiry reminder lead time: 1–60 days (default 14)
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Autonomous confidence threshold: 80–100% (default 95)
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Max autonomous actions per day: 1–500 (default 50)
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Waiver notes max length: 2,000 characters
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Jurisdiction tag: US state code
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CSV export cap: 10,000 waivers
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Autonomous run cadence: Every 4 hours
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Pricing: License required (per-tenant opt-in)
Screenshots
Use cases
FAQ
Time & Attendance (and Timesheets) records the raw clock-in, clock-out, and break punches — it is the system of record for hours worked. Meal Compliance is the layer on top: it reads those meal-break punches to manage the legal paperwork, creating and tracking waivers, detecting behavior changes, and flagging compliance gaps. It never edits punches; it only consumes them.
Each shift is checked against the break rule for its location when it is clocked out, and what it finds is listed under Break Compliance. California's full rule is built in: a first meal by the end of the fifth hour, a second meal on days over ten hours, the meals an employee may waive, and a rest break for every four hours or major part of four. An administrator chooses it on the California break rule and sets break enforcement to Observing or Enforcing. Consult your own counsel on the specific state rules that apply to you.
Yes, where the state's break rule turns it on. With the rule's 1-hour premium switch on and break enforcement set to Enforcing, a missed, short or late meal break adds one hour at the employee's base rate for that day, and a missed or short rest break adds one more. Both are written to the timesheet as Missed Meal Break and Missed Rest Break and flow into the payroll report. The premium uses the base hourly rate on file.
It requires a license and is opt-in per tenant — an administrator enables it for your business from the Apps Marketplace. It is disabled by default until then.
