EuGH immediate action: record working hours with one click

Background: On 14 May 2019 the European Court of Justice (Europäischer Gerichtshof, EuGH) obliged all EU employers to keep complete records of working time. This ruling was issued in particular to protect employee rights. On this subject, also read our earlier article EuGH ruling: advantages and disadvantages for your business.

So how does this ruling affect German businesses?

Complete documentation has so far not been required for most companies. Employers were only obliged to document overtime, that is, to document every additional hour worked beyond eight hours.

Soon, though, every company in Germany will be obliged to log all working hours performed by an employee. That includes those of employees in the field or working from home. Are you now wondering what all counts as this working time? In short, everything the employee does in the interest of their company. A work phone call or writing an email after the end of shift or at the weekend, for example, would already be working time that from now on must be recorded without fail.

Act now instead of having your back to the wall later!

The German Bundestag still has time within this half of the year to cast the EU directive into German law and thereby make it legally binding. Many consider the law a step backwards in the world of work. Mobile working or the popular home office has already been firmly integrated into day-to-day work for most employees. These flexible models are now under threat from the future legal situation. Is there a way to keep these models without breaking the new EU directive? In short: yes, there is! In what follows we give you an overview of possible time tracking methods and explain why one of them in particular not only removes your problem before it arises, but also minimises all the bureaucracy in your company at the same time.

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There are these 3 forms of time tracking:

Since you now have quite a lot of your employees' working time to document, you are spoilt for choice: which kind of time tracking do you go for? We are making it easy for you and will briefly introduce three of them:

1. Written or manual time tracking

As the name suggests, here you would record the working time for each employee individually in writing. With irregular working hours in particular, however, this could  become very time-consuming for you, because the employee's entire working time would have to be recalculated month after month.  

2. Mechanical time tracking

This is usually done with a punch clock or time clock or a work card. On the whole, though, mechanical time tracking is considered a somewhat outdated variant and is only used in a few businesses these days.

3. Digital or electronic time tracking

Especially now, in the modern world of work, this form of time tracking is the most common option. All that is needed for it is a working smartphone or tablet with the relevant software installed on it. The employee's various data, whether working time,  overtime or pay, is recorded automatically here. The administrative bureaucracy is minimised. That is why we clearly recommend a digital method of time tracking to you.

One click makes your business EuGH-compliant

clockin is EuGH-compliant and solves your future problem before it arises. Digital time tracking from clockin adapts comfortably to your individual activities. It does not matter whether your employees work from home, in the field or in the office. One click in the clockin app on a smartphone or tablet is enough and all your employees' hours are recorded individually and by project. In the office all the data is available to you in real time. Goodbye bureaucracy, hello free time! clockin's features are varied and can be applied to every industry. You will find all of clockin's features here.

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