Most California employers don't find out they have a meal break problem until someone files a claim.

By then, the violations have been compounding for months or years. What started as a manager letting lunch run late — or a timeclock rounding in the wrong direction — has become a six-figure exposure that triggers waiting time penalties, PAGA liability, and class certification risk.

David Ehrlich spent more than two decades inside that problem. Managing compliance and operations for California employers, he watched the same violations repeat across industries: late lunches, short lunches, missing rest period line items, incomplete punch records. The exposure was real and quantifiable. The tools to find it before payroll ran didn't exist.

So he built one.

The Wage Counsel Group Analyzer was built with the legal background to know which violations matter most under California Labor Code §512 and §226.7, and the operational background to know how they actually appear in a timeclock export. It doesn't approximate. It ingests your data, applies California-specific meal and rest period rules at the line-item level, and returns an exposure figure tied to your actual records — before payroll runs, before a notice arrives, before the window for fixing it closes.

Wage Counsel Group is a trade name of ELE Consulting Inc., a California corporation. ELE Consulting Inc. is not a law firm. The Analyzer is a software tool; its output does not constitute legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.