Know Where You Stand on the NYC Wage Law
The Aland Etienne Safety and Security Act changes what you pay, prove, and keep on file. Compliance reads the records you already keep and tells you exactly which employees, sites, and documents would not hold up if an investigator asked.
New York City's security guard wage law phases in between 2026 and 2029: notices first, then wage floors, paid time off, and supplemental benefits.
Compliance turns that timeline into a readiness score against your live data. It works out which sites fall inside the city from their geofences, which employees sit in the two-year wage tier, and where an actual pay rate sits below the required floor — with the dollar exposure attached to each finding. Every one of those findings is advice. Compliance never blocks a schedule, a timesheet, or a payroll run.
Last updated 2026-07-09
What you get
Deadline Countdown. A readiness score and a running countdown to each phase: notices in 2026, wage floors in 2027, paid time off in 2028, and full benefits in 2029.
Wage Tier Tracking. See actual versus required pay for every covered employee, and get warned before someone crosses the two-year seniority tier rather than after.
Site Coverage From Geofences. We detect which sites sit inside the five boroughs from the geofences you already drew. You confirm scope in one click, and pre-CBA exemptions are recorded with it.
Notice of Rights, Acknowledged. Send the notice by text, push, email, or secure link. Employees read and sign from the mobile app or the link, and new hires are sent theirs automatically.
Six-Year Audit Trail. Export the wage audit, findings, and acknowledgement records on demand or on a schedule, retained for the six years the law requires.
Plain-English Guidance. Ask the AI assistant what a rule requires and what to do next. Every number and verdict comes from the rule engine, never from the model.
How it works
Confirm which sites are covered
We propose the sites whose geofences fall inside the city and flag the ones we cannot place. An admin approves the list, so nothing is enrolled behind your back.
Review what the scan found
A daily scan compares pay rates, seniority dates, and armed credentials against the schedule in force and raises findings with the exposure spelled out.
Send policies and collect signatures
Publish the Notice of Rights, send it on the channels your employees actually use, and watch acknowledgements land in real time.
Keep the record
Advisories appear inline while you edit a pay rate, assign a shift, or close a payroll period, and the audit export stays ready for the six-year requirement.
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Frequently asked questions
Will this block my schedules or payroll?
No. Compliance is advisory by design. It flags issues where you are already working — the pay rate dialog, shift assignment, and payroll period close — but every action still goes through. You decide what to do about a finding.
How do you know which of my sites are covered?
From the geofence you already drew for each site. A point-in-boundary check against the five boroughs gives a high-confidence answer; sites without a geofence fall back to an address check and are flagged as unconfirmed. An admin confirms scope either way.
How do you tell armed guards from unarmed?
From the certifications on file. An employee holding a current armed credential is treated as armed, and a lapsing or expired credential raises its own finding, because the required rate changes with it. Where the classification is genuinely unclear, we say so rather than guess.
What happens when the city publishes next year's rates?
Nothing on your side. Rate schedules are effective-dated in the platform, so when the annual schedule is published we add the new version and it takes effect on the date the law says it does.
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