Employment Legal

Add a new leave to the leave register with the minimum information needed to start tracking deadlines. Use when an employee goes on leave and you want the tracker to watch designation, certification, and exhaustion clocks from day one.

Jurisdiction-aware wage/hour and employment Q&A — classification, overtime, meal/rest breaks, leave, final pay — answered for the specific state/country with the controlling rule researched and cited rather than stated from memory. Use when the user asks any employment law question, or says "what's the rule in [state]", "is this exempt", "do we have to pay overtime for", or "can we classify this as".

Review an offer letter and any restrictive covenants — jurisdiction check included. Substantive rules (covenant enforceability, pay-transparency, salary-history limits, exemption criteria) are researched per hire, not stored. Use when the user says "review this offer", "can we use a non-compete here", "check this offer letter", "hiring in [state]", or attaches an offer.

Check open leaves for deadline alerts and required decisions. Surfaces only the leaves that require an action and explains why — not a status board. Use weekly, or whenever the attorney needs to know which leaves have upcoming designation, certification, or exhaustion deadlines.

Draft an employment policy with state supplements where law differs across the jurisdictional footprint. Use when the user says "draft a [topic] policy", "we need a policy on", "update our [topic] policy", or names a policy gap.

Update the status of an in-progress international expansion project — recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities. Use when work has happened since the last session and the expansion tracker needs to reflect the current state.

Diff a proposed handbook change against the current version, flag ripple effects and state supplement impacts. Use when user says "update the handbook", "add this to the handbook", "handbook change", or has a policy ready for insertion.

Kick off international expansion planning for a new country — gathers intake, runs EOR vs. entity framing, drafts cross-functional questions, surfaces country-specific flags, and creates a persistent tracker. Use when someone says "we're hiring in [country]", "expansion to [country]", or "first hire in [country]".

Add data to an open investigation — documents, interview notes, or observations. Processes batches against the documented pull criteria, surfaces significant items, and logs everything reviewed for coverage verification. Use when new evidence, interview notes, or document productions come in for an open investigation.

Open a new internal investigation matter — runs intake, generates the sources checklist, and creates the persistent investigation log. Use when a complaint or allegation comes in and the attorney needs to stand up a privileged investigation workspace.

Termination review — high-risk flag detection, severance + release, and final pay timing by jurisdiction. Jurisdiction-specific rules and release consideration periods are researched per review, not stored. Use when the user says "reviewing a termination", "can we fire this person", "term review", or describes a termination scenario.

Classify a proposed worker engagement — employee, IC, temp, or vendor — by running the applicable jurisdiction tests and flagging misclassification gaps between the intended arrangement and what the facts actually support. Prospective use only. Use when someone says "we want to bring on a contractor", "is this a vendor or a temp", "how should we classify this person", or describes a proposed working arrangement.

Reference: shared framework for managing internal investigations from intake through final memo — privileged investigation log, document processing with needle-finding, source coverage tracking, Q&A against the log, memo drafting, and audience summaries. Loaded by /investigation-open, /investigation-add, /investigation-query, /investigation-memo, and /investigation-summary; not invoked directly.

Reference: implementation-planning framework for international hiring — EOR vs. entity decision framing, cross-functional triggers for tax/finance/HR, structured outside-counsel briefing requests, and a persistent gap tracker. Loaded by /expansion-kickoff and /expansion-update; not invoked directly.