Electronic recording of working hours is not yet mandatory, but if the Federal Ministry of Labor has its way , it will soon be mandatory. A simple template for recording working hours can help you with this. With SeaTable, you have a form for recording hours for your employees and at the same time a clear table at hand in which you can see all the hours worked.
Is time recording mandatory in Germany?
Yes, employers in Germany are already required to iran rcs data record overtime and Sunday work under the current Working Hours Act. The European Court of Justice also ruled in May 2019 that companies in the EU must record all of their employees' working hours. The Federal Labor Court confirmed this in its ruling of September 13, 2022. The question of whether employers must record working hours has therefore been decided.
The Federal Ministry of Labor plans to answer the question of what time recording should look like in the future in a draft law in 2023. Currently, time recording is not tied to a specific form and can be done both electronically and in writing on paper. This is set to change in the future, if the Federal Ministry of Labor has its way: the start, end and duration of daily working hours must then be recorded electronically and usually on the same day.