Documentation of the employees daily working hours
The new regulations will essentially apply to all employers, who must, therefore, implement a system for registering working hours. The system must be able to document employees’ daily working hours, and the information must be stored for five years. It is the employer’s responsibility to grant employees access to their own information in the system. Although there is freedom to choose the method, the attendance tracking system must be objective, reliable, and easily accessible.
The system must be able to record when work is performed during the day to comply with rest period regulations. According to the Working Time Act, the average working time over a seven-day period, calculated over a four-month period, must not exceed 48 hours, including overtime, which is referred to as the 48-hour rule.
Exceptions to the obligation of attendance tracking include self-organisers, defined as:
Workers who cannot plan their working hours in advance due to the nature of their work.
Employees who can determine their own working hours and make independent decisions or have managerial functions.
Employees whose employment is related to the performance of religious activities in churches and religious communities.