ECJ: Time Recording Obligation for Companies
Prepare for the time recording obligation with projectfacts & record your employees' working hours in accordance with the ECJ ruling.
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Working time recording is becoming mandatory. Stay one step ahead of the law and prepare with the time recording package from projectfacts. Our team will set up your package within one day, so you can get started in a relaxed and straightforward manner.
The ECJ ruling on the time recording obligation
In May 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the recording of working hours in all member states is to become mandatory. The background to the decision is that, in the EU's view, workers' rights cannot be sufficiently enforced. Many companies do not record their employees' times at all or not reliably, which makes enforcement difficult.
In order to be able to monitor minimum rest periods and maximum working hours, time recording is essential. The newly introduced obligation applies equally to all employees. In particular, it does not distinguish according to working time model, meaning that flexible working arrangements such as trust-based working hours are also affected by the time recording obligation.
Legal consequences of the time recording obligation
Until now, German law only stipulates that overtime worked beyond contractually agreed working hours must be documented. As a result of the ECJ ruling, time recording must now begin from "hour zero". To date, the ECJ ruling has not been transposed into national law. Nevertheless, the ruling already has a certain binding effect on labour courts, which has not yet been clearly defined legally.
Companies are therefore advised to address the options for recording their employees' times even before the transposition into German law. This allows you to avoid the disruptions expected in the course of the new case law.
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Prepare with projectfacts for future tightening of employment law. Document your employees' times reliably, objectively and accessibly in accordance with the ECJ guidelines.
Get in touch nowOur solution for the time recording obligation
The ECJ ruling literally demands a reliable, objective and accessible system for recording times. projectfacts offers you a software solution with which you can already fulfil these requirements today.
reliable
Time recording with projectfacts takes place online on secure servers. Accidental modification or deletion of times is excluded. This gives both you and your employees complete security.
objective
Your employees record times independently. They can check in and out at any time. The recorded working hours can be checked in the form of timesheets or proofs of services.
accessible
With projectfacts your employees record times from anywhere. Whether in the office, home office or on the go. Thanks to the online interface, web app or terminal, time recording is available to everyone.
Time recording obligation in Germany
According to a study by CLBO & Groß & Cie from May 2019, around 50% of German employees record their working hours. This is set to change. As a result of the ECJ ruling, the agreed time recording obligation must be transposed into German law. Employers will thereby be required in future to record their employees' working hours.
Opportunities for employers
The obligation to record working hours offers many advantages – with projectfacts you can go beyond the minimum. With minimal effort you manage attendance and absence times, holidays and sick days. Thanks to time recording, you generate timesheets and proofs of services fully automatically. You bill effort-dependent items for your projects more easily than ever before. Recording times also offers you completely new analysis and reporting options. Discover further advantages of [time recording](/time-recording/).
Opportunities for employees
Employees who currently work very flexibly are worried that recording times will restrict their freedom in organising their working hours. Customers confirm to us: the opposite is the case. 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 the home office or mobile on the go. Recording and booking times is always quick and easy. With projectfacts you enjoy full freedom for your working hours.
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Our consulting team will contact you and take the time to understand your requirements. Together we will develop a tailored solution for time recording in your company, so you can get started as quickly as possible.
Get in touch nowTime recording obligation – flexible with projectfacts
With projectfacts you can be just as flexible as before, if not even more so. Your times are recorded no matter where you work from. When you take a break, simply check out and check back in later. All of this is up to you. With projectfacts you always have your own working hours in view. You also retain control over your employees' overtime.
How did the ECJ ruling on the time recording obligation come about?
It began with a Spanish trade union that took legal action against a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank. The reason was that the employees' hours worked were not being recorded. They had agreed on trust-based working hours. The Spanish Supreme Court then referred this case to the ECJ.
The ECJ ruling on 14 May 2019: EU member states are obliged to introduce a system for recording their employees' working hours. Only with such a system, the ruling states, can the EU Working Time Directive on maximum working hours and rest periods be complied with.
The most important questions & answers on the time recording obligation
We have summarised the most important questions and answers for you in our blog.
Time Recording Package
Basic functions
- Time recording via software, terminal or web app
- Time recording from the office, externally and home office
- Overtime accounts
- Recording of sick days
- Management of holiday days and requests
- Supplementary times
- Evaluations and reports
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