Time recording obligation: judgment from the ECJ

According to a ruling by the European Court of Justice, employers should be obliged to record their employees’ working hours. ECJ requires full time recording The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg ruled on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, that EU states must require their employers to keep full time records in future. As the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” reports, it is not enough just to record overtime. According to the ECJ, the ruling strengthens the rights of employees. Accordingly, a time recording tool would make it easier to prove that rights have been violated. Under German law, the Working Hours Act currently only stipulates that overtime in excess of the working day must be recorded. According to the ECJ, it is now up to the EU member states to oblige employers to set up an “objective, reliable and accessible system” for recording working time. REINER SCT offers a simple and efficient digital time recording solution. With the time recording software timeCard companies have an overview of all their employees’ working hours and absences at all times, can automatically transfer the data to their payroll accounting and prevent errors and manipulation in Excel files. Another plus: timeCard can be used for all working time models. This saves companies a lot of time and therefore costs.