The Problem
A worker disputes overtime. A manager wants to modify a salary mid-contract. A termination triggers a prestaciones calculation. Every question has a precise answer in the Código de Trabajo — but finding it, computing it, and citing it under deadline pressure is exactly why labor counsel exists. And labor counsel costs $300/hour for what is sometimes a 5-minute question.
The Solution
Lawra Wage & Hour Q&A answers concrete labor questions with step-by-step calculations and explicit citations to Código de Trabajo Arts. 192-225 (salary + jornada + vacations + regalía + bonificación + prestaciones), Ley 87-01 SDSS (TSS contributions + subsidies), and Resoluciones del Comité Nacional de Salarios. Numbers come out with the formula shown; citations come out with the article number. Refuses to invent sectoral minimums (refers user to the current CNS resolution instead).
Key Features
Step-by-step numeric calculations — overtime, prestaciones, regalía pascual, bonificación, vacaciones proporcionales, all with the formula shown.
Specialized regimes — Zonas Francas, CONFOTUR, doméstico, agrícola, ejecutivos — each with its own wage-hour rules surfaced when relevant.
Cross-border + Principio de Primacía de la Realidad — handles cases where a worker is classified as independent contractor but the facts say employee.
Risk-focus toggle — defensa del empleador / asesoría al trabajador / análisis neutral / compliance preventivo — same scenario seen from each angle.
Use Cases
Mid-market labor lawyer answers 5 wage-and-hour questions from clients in a morning — instead of 5 hours of code-lookup.
In-house HR counsel calculates prestaciones for a planned restructuring (45 terminations) — gets the full per-person breakdown in 20 minutes.
Solo practitioner advising a worker on a wrongful-termination claim — gets the conservative-vs-aggressive framing of the same facts.
Best For
Labor lawyers, in-house HR counsel, solo practitioners handling employment, HR managers needing fast preliminary answers.
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