Spain: new requirement for companies to record daily working hours, to detect false part-time arrangements and unpaid overtime

On 8 March, the Spanish government approved a decree-law containing “urgent measures” to combat work insecurity, which includes a requirement for companies to record the working hours or their employees and to keep a register for a period of four years.

By . Published on 11 March 2019 à 13h51 - Update on 19 July 2019 à 8h56

Companies in the country will therefore be obliged to keep a daily record of the entry and exit times of their employees, building up a register that must be preserved for four years. The aim of the measure is to find out exactly how many hours employees are working, to allow practices such as fraudulent part-time work arrangements and non-payment of extra working hours to be more easily detected.…

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