Overtime and labour-law checker
Checks a month's working hours against your limits, works out the overtime pay, and drafts the Overtime pay items.
How it works
Pick a period and the checker reads everyone's worked hours from Attendance (night shifts count on the day they started), holidays and weekly offs from People and, for payroll staff, salaries from Payroll. It checks daily and weekly hours, spread-over, rest intervals, the weekly day off, the quarterly overtime cap and work on holidays against your limits: the Factories Act or your state's Shops & Establishments Act as a starting point, with your company's own values on top. Overtime pay (for example twice the ordinary rate of Basic + DA) is worked out in code; the agent only explains. On confirm it adds Overtime pay items to the month's payroll, where Payroll's own approval applies, and can draft notes to managers about repeated breaches. It never changes attendance. Not legal advice.
About 1 credit when it explains breaches; overtime totals and drafts use none
What it reads
- Worked hours and check-in times from Attendance
- Holidays and weekly offs, departments and managers from People
- Basic and DA from Payroll (payroll staff only), to price overtime
When it starts
- When you ask in Chat or on the agent's page
What it can do
- Draft Overtime pay items for a month for you to confirm (after you confirm)
- Draft notes to managers about repeated breaches (after you confirm)
What it never does
- Change anyone's attendance
Safe by design
- One assistant, many agents. Ask the Employee assistant in the app or on WhatsApp; it calls the agents your company has hired that you may use.
- Hired, not switched on. Your admin hires each agent from the catalogue and chooses who can use it.
- Agents propose, people confirm. Anything that changes data, like a leave request, waits for a person to confirm it.
- Same access as the user. An agent sees only what the person asking is allowed to see.
- AI processing in India. Agents run on models hosted in India (AWS Mumbai).
- Budgets and a hard stop. Set a monthly credit limit per agent; agents stop when credits run out.
- Every run recorded. Admins see each run, the credits it used and what it did.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Overtime and labour-law checker do?
Pick a period and the checker reads everyone's worked hours from Attendance (night shifts count on the day they started), holidays and weekly offs from People and, for payroll staff, salaries from Payroll. It checks daily and weekly hours, spread-over, rest intervals, the weekly day off, the quarterly overtime cap and work on holidays against your limits: the Factories Act or your state's Shops & Establishments Act as a starting point, with your company's own values on top. Overtime pay (for example twice the ordinary rate of Basic + DA) is worked out in code; the agent only explains. On confirm it adds Overtime pay items to the month's payroll, where Payroll's own approval applies, and can draft notes to managers about repeated breaches. It never changes attendance. Not legal advice.
Can the Overtime and labour-law checker change data on its own?
No. It asks a person to confirm before it will: draft overtime pay items for a month for you to confirm; draft notes to managers about repeated breaches. It never does the following: change anyone's attendance.
How much does the Overtime and labour-law checker cost?
About 1 credit when it explains breaches; overtime totals and drafts use none. Credits are a paid add-on to any flowwork.ai plan at ₹100 (US$ 1.19) per 1,000 credits, and new companies get 500 free trial credits for 30 days.
Where is the data processed?
Agents run on AI models hosted in India and see only what the person using them is allowed to see. Admins see every run and the credits it used.
Other agents
Explains why a day shows absent or late and drafts the correction request; briefs managers on requests waiting for them.
Plans next week's shifts for a manager's team, finds the days a shift is short, says who's on, and drafts shift swaps.
Tell it about your company in plain words; it plans departments, offices, holidays, leave, work week, payroll and expenses for you to confirm.