Ugur Aydogan
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Product development atAMNAU GmbH, which publishes the articles
The articles on this site are published by AMNAU GmbH in Hanover, which develops and offers MetronHR. Editorial responsibility lies with Ugur Aydogan, product development, who works on MetronHR there. The texts are written and checked there and published by the company.
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32 articles and60 glossary entries on working time law.
What time tracking really costs
Pricing models, hidden items and the arithmetic behind them: what time tracking software costs per head, what terminals cost and from when it pays off.
Why time tracking without fingerprints is the safe choice
Biometric time tracking is in principle prohibited under Article 9 GDPR and permitted only on a narrow legal basis. What the courts have decided and what alternatives exist.
Six weeks of pay in case of illness, and what comes after
How long pay continues during illness, when a fresh entitlement arises for the same illness and what applies during leave. With the deadlines from the EFZG.
Travel time: when it is working time and when it is paid
Business trips, the journey to a building site, the commute to the office: when travel time counts as working time, when it is paid, and why those are two different questions.
Short-time work: what happens to the working time account first
Before short-time work allowance comes the running down of working time credit. What the Federal Employment Agency requires, which credits are protected and what has to be recorded.
Handing hours over to payroll cleanly
Which figures payroll really needs each month, in what format they get them and where the handover comes unstuck in practice.
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