What has to be recorded in your industry
The duty to keep records is not the same everywhere: in construction it covers every employee, in temporary work it sits with the hirer, and in road transport § 21a applies instead of § 3 ArbZG, with a balancing period of its own. Every industry has its own answer.
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23 Industries, each with its own duties
Pick your industry: each page names the rule that applies there and what MetronHR does about it.
Agencies and creative teams
Retainers are the business model and the most common source of losses. Consumption per hour package visible while the month is still running.
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Building cleaning
A generally binding industry minimum wage under the AEntG, recording under section 17 MiLoG and travel time between sites that nobody counts as working time but which is exactly that.
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Call centres
Every phone system produces performance data. That makes time tracking here a co-determination question under section 87 (1) no. 6 BetrVG before it is a software question.
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Car workshops
The workshop order is calculated in labour units, the Working Time Act in hours. And emissions test authorisation depends on people whose training has to be repeated every 36 months.
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Care
Care facilities are the only industry with two special routes on rest periods, and since the ECJ ruling standby duty counts in full as working time.
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Clubs and associations
In a club, volunteers, instructors and employees work side by side. The Working Time Act applies only to the last group, and the line between them determines contributions and charitable status.
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Construction and trades
Stricter recording duty: because construction is named in section 2a SchwarzArbG, section 17 MiLoG applies to all employees, with a seven-day deadline.
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Consulting
See the project margin before the budget is used up, with a target/actual traffic light and a split between billable and internal time.
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Dental practices
A 20-minute treatment rhythm and prophylaxis tied to the dental hygienist qualification instead of to the free chair.
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Doctors' practices
Consultation, house call, blood sampling and reception share the same team. The daily plan shows who is on which task right now.
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Gyms
Classes run on freelance trainers, the counter and cleaning on mini-jobs, and each carries its own trap: bogus self-employment and the earnings threshold.
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Hospitality
Hospitality is named in section 2a SchwarzArbG. The seven-day deadline of section 17 MiLoG therefore applies to all employees, not just to mini-jobbers.
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Hotels
Reception around the clock, housekeeping in the morning, breakfast from five. Three rhythms in one house, and accommodation falls under section 2a SchwarzArbG.
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IT and software
Support effort eats the project margin when both book to the same pot. Separate services per customer, automate onboarding.
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Law and tax practices
Billable client time is not working time. Plus access per role, because section 203 (4) StGB also covers assisting personnel.
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Logistics
For driving personnel it is not section 3 ArbZG that applies but section 21a: 48 hours on average, compensation over four months or 16 weeks, and standby time does not count under certain conditions.
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Pharmacies
Dispensary, compounding, delivery service and emergency duty in a 15-minute rhythm, with compounding tied to the pharmacist qualification.
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Physiotherapy
Therapy time runs on a clock and prescriptions expire. The daily plan reflects the 20-minute rhythm.
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Retail
Shift planning for changing opening hours, temporary staff and the mini-job threshold, with the plan on the phone instead of on the stockroom wall.
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Security services
Every post is tied to a qualification, every security officer to a reliability check, and the security industry is named in section 2a SchwarzArbG.
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Service & maintenance
Late jobs past midnight and eleven hours of rest under section 5 ArbZG, with no option to shorten it for this industry.
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Temporary work and staffing services
Under section 17c AÜG the hirer keeps the records, but you have to invoice. Times separated per hirer, documents in German held in Germany.
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Veterinary practices
Consultation, surgery, ward and emergency duty in the same day. A daily plan in a 30-minute grid in which no consultation runs without a veterinary nurse.
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