ECJ: Time recording obligation for companies
Prepare for the time recording obligation with projectfacts & record your employees’ working times in accordance with the ECJ ruling.
Do you already record your employees’ times?
Recording working hours is mandatory. Comply with the law and operate with the time recording package from projectfacts. Our team will set up your package for you within one day so that you can get off to a relaxed and uncomplicated start.
The ECJ ruling on the time recording obligation
In May 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the recording of working hours would become mandatory in all member states, which was implemented in 2023. The background to the decision is that, in the opinion of the EU, employees’ rights cannot be sufficiently enforced. Many companies do not record their employees’ working hours or do not do so reliably, which makes it difficult to take action.
In order to be able to monitor minimum rest periods and maximum working hours, time recording is essential. The newly introduced obligation affects all employees equally. In particular, it does not differentiate between working time models, i.e. flexible forms of work such as trust-based working hours are also affected by the time recording obligation.
Legal consequences of the time recording obligation
Until 2023, German law only stipulated that overtime worked in excess of the contractually agreed working hours must be documented. As a result of the ECJ ruling, time recording must now begin at “hour zero”.
Companies are therefore required to offer a way of recording their employees’ working time. You can thus avoid the expected turbulence in the wake of the new legislation. In this way, you avoid violating the law and the corresponding penalties.
Get started with your new time recording system today!
Prepare for future tightening of labor law with projectfacts. Document your employees’ working hours reliably, objectively and accessibly in accordance with the ECJ.Our solution for the time recording obligation
The ECJ ruling literally requires a reliable, objective and accessible system for recording times. projectfacts offers you a software solution with which you can already meet these requirements.
Reliable
Time recording with projectfacts takes place online on secure servers. Accidental changing or deleting of times is impossible. This gives both you and your employees complete security.
Objective
Your employees record their times independently. They can check in and out at any time. The recorded working times can be checked in the form of timesheets or activity reports.
accessible
With projectfacts, your employees can record times from anywhere. Whether they are in the office, working from home or on the move. Thanks to the online interface, web app or terminal, time recording is available to everyone.
Compulsory time recording in Germany
According to a study conducted by CLBO & Groß & Cie in May 2019 , around 50% of German employees recorded their working hours. This has changed. As a result of the ECJ ruling, the adopted time recording obligation had to be transposed into German law. Employers were thus obliged to record the working hours of their employees.
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Opportunities for employers
The obligation to record working hours offers many advantages – with projectfacts, you can do the freestyle. You can manage attendance and absence times, vacations and illnesses with minimal effort. Thanks to time recording, you can create timesheets and activity reports fully automatically. It’s easier than ever to invoice expense-dependent items for your projects. Time recording also offers you completely new analysis and reporting options. Discover further advantages of time recording.
Opportunities for employees
Employees who currently work very flexibly are worried that time recording will restrict their freedom to organize their time. Customers confirm that the opposite is true. With projectfacts, you are at least as flexible as before. Check in and out online at any time. Record your times in the office, in your home office or on the move. Recording and booking times is quick and easy at any time. With projectfacts, you enjoy complete freedom for your working hours.
Try the time recording package from projectfacts today
Our consulting team will contact you and take the time to understand your requirements. Together we will work out a tailor-made solution for time recording in your company so that you can get started as quickly as possible.Compulsory time recording – flexible with projectfacts
With projectfacts you can be just as flexible as before, if not more so. Your times are recorded no matter where you are working from. If you take a break, simply check out and check back in later. It’s all up to you. With projectfacts, you always have an overview of your own working hours. You also keep control of your employees’ overtime.How did the ECJ ruling on the time recording obligation come about?
It started with a Spanish company that sued a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank. The reason for this was that the hours worked by the employees were not recorded. They had agreed on trust hours. The highest court in Spain then referred the case to the ECJ.
The ruling of the ECJ on May 14, 2019: EU member states are obliged to introduce a system for recording the working hours of their employees. Only with such a system can the EU Working Time Directive on maximum working hours and rest periods be complied with.
Basic functions
- Time recording via software, terminal or web app
- Time recording from internal, external and home office
- Overtime accounts
- Recording of sick days
- Management of vacation days and requests
- Surcharge periods
- Evaluations and reports
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