Special reports
Beyond the standard file: what the Administrator can order prepared
Chapter 11 covered the standard payroll record — the twelve data points every nonexempt employee’s file must contain, and where and how fast those records must surface on request. § 516.8 adds a second, separate obligation on top of that standing file: each employer required to maintain records under this part must also make such extension, recomputation, or transcription of the records, and submit to the Wage and Hour Division such reports concerning persons employed and the wages, hours, and other conditions and practices of employment set forth in the records, as the Administrator or a duly authorized and designated representative may request in writing. The standard record answers what an employer must always have on file; this rule answers what an employer must additionally produce once asked.
The trigger is a written request from the Administrator or a representative the Administrator has duly authorized and designated — not a routine filing an employer completes on a schedule, and not something demanded informally. § 516.8 lets that request call for the underlying records to be extended, recomputed, or transcribed, and it can also ask for a report covering any of the persons employed, the wages, the hours, or the other conditions and practices of employment that the records already set forth. In every case the request draws only on material the employer’s own records already contain — the rule lets the Administrator ask for that material reorganized or restated, not for facts the employer never had to record in the first place.
Key terms
computations and reportsextension, recomputation, or transcriptionduly authorized and designated representativewritten request