Digital time recording mandatory according to the mini-job bill?

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With his new draft law on mini-job regulations, Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) wanted to digitize time recording quickly and decisively. However, the draft failed to pass due to opposition from the FDP. You can find out why this does not mean the end of digital time recording and what to expect in the future in our blog post.

Hubertus Heil
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Two years have passed since the European Court of Justice ruled that EU member states must introduce working time recording in their companies. Many employers have made a virtue out of necessity and introduced digital time recording. But in many industries, time recording is still done manually. In the new mini-job bill, digital time recording should become mandatory.

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Affected industries
Heil wanted to oblige eleven industries listed in Section 2a of the Act to Combat Illegal Employment to record working hours digitally . These include:



How exactly should working time be recorded?
According to Heil's draft law, the start of work had to be documented immediately upon commencement of work. The end and duration of the daily working hours should also be available on the respective working day. Time recording should be completely digital .

Compared to how time recording was previously practiced in the affected industries, two points would change :

So far, time does not necessarily have to be recorded digitally.
Employers have seven days to make their employees' working hours available for inspections by customs and occupational health and safety authorities.
Affected companies have until October to implement the requirements of the draft law.

Will Heil’s bill be implemented as planned?
Due to the FDP's dissenting vote to Heil's bill, the Minister of Labor has deleted the passage on electronic time recording from the bill . The requirement to do so has therefore been postponed for the time being . The reason for this was doubts about the feasibility of the requirement.