WFM Comply is an independent project I maintain. After years inside workforce management, I know these rules aren't abstract. They're the difference between a schedule that works and one that creates risk.
After two decades building and scaling workforce management systems, I kept hitting the same wall. Compliance references are written for lawyers: organized around statutes, full of caveats, and hard to translate into what matters when you're building or buying a scheduling system.
Operators and product teams need something else: a clear view of which rules shape how schedules get built, when breaks are required, where predictive scheduling applies, and when pay rules kick in. That's what this is: the legal detail rewritten as the requirements a workforce system actually has to handle, with source links and a regular refresh so it doesn't go stale.
It's organized around system behavior, not legal language. Every rule ties back to something a scheduling or labor-management platform has to account for.
Each value is checked against primary sources (government labor sites, DOL materials, EPI, Littler, A Better Balance), and the scorecard is published, so you can see the work. It's reviewed twice a month, because wage indexing and local ordinances change often enough to make a static reference wrong fast.
Steve Levy has spent more than two decades at the center of workforce management, retail operations, and store technology — building, scaling, selling, and implementing platforms used by some of the world's largest retailers.
His experience spans workforce forecasting, scheduling, labor optimization, task management, store communications, compliance, enterprise rollouts, product strategy, and international expansion. He has worked with brands including adidas, ALDI, Nike, LEGO, Levi's, Kohl's, Microsoft, Amazon Stores, Walmart, and Kroger.
Steve led consulting at Kronos (now UKG) for five years, founded ThinkTime, a task-and-communication platform used daily by more than 100,000 hourly workers, and later led international growth for Retail Zipline from London. He is now Global Vice President of Solution Consulting at Logile, where he helps retailers turn workforce technology into operational results.
Questions, corrections, or a jurisdiction I should add? I'd like to hear from you. Corrections that include a primary source go to the front of the line. Reach me on LinkedIn or by email at support@wfmcomply.com.