The Challenge
With the rise of city and county employment laws, identifying a location’s jurisdictional posting requirements has become increasingly complex. With zip codes and city names an inaccurate indicator of a location’s jurisdiction, GovDocs released LocationCheck, which uses latitude and longitude rooftop precision to pinpoint the correct jurisdiction for a location. This innovation eliminates inaccurate jurisdiction assignments and significantly mitigates the risk of location non-compliance, audits, class-action lawsuits, and fines from federal, state, county, and city departments of labor.
It’s clear that jurisdictional precision with longitude and latitude is paramount now and into the future.

With over 22,000 cities and counties that can issue local employment law requirements and 220M+ postal and non-USPS addresses, zip codes and city names do not define the boundaries of compliance for labor law postings, paid leave, and minimum wage anymore.
With GovDocs LocationCheck technology, we ensure exact roof-top precision for locations by simply taking your addresses, streamlining the research and validation process, which in return assigns longitude and latitude coordinates to determine your location’s correct jurisdictional assignment.
If you have one location or tens of thousands of locations, it only takes one wrong jurisdiction to be out of compliance.
With over 22,000 cities and counties that can issue local employment law requirements and 220M+ postal and non-USPS addresses, zip codes and city names do not define the boundaries of compliance for labor law postings, paid leave, and minimum wage anymore.
With GovDocs LocationCheck technology, we ensure exact roof-top precision for locations by simply taking your addresses, streamlining the research and validation process, which in return assigns longitude and latitude coordinates to determine your location’s jurisdictional assignment.
If you have one location or tens of thousands of locations, it only takes one wrong jurisdiction to be out of compliance.

With over 22,000 cities and counties that can issue local employment law requirements and 220M+ postal and non-USPS addresses, zip codes and city names do not define the boundaries of compliance for labor law postings, paid leave, and minimum wage anymore.
With GovDocs LocationCheck technology, we ensure exact roof-top precision for locations by simply taking your addresses, streamlining the research and validation process, which in return assigns longitude and latitude coordinates to determine your location’s jurisdictional assignment.
If you have one location or tens of thousands of locations, it only takes one wrong jurisdiction to be out of compliance. LocationCheck is the behind-the-scenes technology to:

Streamline organization-wide processes with precise jurisdictional assignments, ensuring full confidence in meeting posting requirements across all locations.
Eliminate manual research by automatically determining if your location falls within a city, county, neighborhood, district, ward, or borough, saving time and ensuring compliance.
Prevent costly fines by eliminating errors in jurisdictional assignments, ensuring required postings are always placed at the correct locations.
The Truth: How City Names and Zip Codes Impact HR Compliance
You have two locations with the same zip code and the same city name, oh no! Zip codes and city names were initially made to make mail delivery easier. They weren’t created to correspond to jurisdictional boundaries for cities, counties, or states.
Location #1 Mailing Address:
12345 E Hillsdale Blvd
Foster City, CA 94404
City Jursidiction: San Mateo
Location #2 Mailing Address:
12345 Bridgepointe Prkwy
Foster City, CA 94404
City Jursidiction: Foster City
Although both addresses appear in Foster City for their required city posters, after verification with LocationCheck, the list below shows that the two locations have different jurisdictional requirements.
Poster Requirements
Don’t Let One Wrong Jurisdiction Put Your Compliance at Risk
Location #1 Poster Requirements
San Mateo CA City Minimum Wage English Poster
San Mateo CA City Minimum Wage Spanish Poster
California State on One English Poster
California No Smoking Poster
U. S. Federal on One English Poster
California Mercantile Industry Wage Order
Location #2 Poster Requirements
Foster City CA Minimum Wage English Poster
Foster City CA Minimum Wage Spanish Poster
California State on One English Poster
California No Smoking Poster
U. S. Federal on One English Poster
California Mercantile Industry Wage Order
Cut Audit Time in Half
A Smarter, Simpler Way to Audit
Gain insights into your locations’ jurisdictional requirements with our new Subscription Audit Report. Employers can streamline auditing by quickly accessing a listing of all location-specific posters included in their GovDocs subscription.
At your fingertips you will have access to the following information for ease and efficiency in your compliance auditing needs:
- location name
- posters included in GovDocs’ service
- assigned jurisdiction
- + more!









