Who writes down your working hours?

In Germany, working time recording (Arbeitszeiterfassung) will apply from 2023: The employer is obliged to record your working hours and overtime.

There will soon be a law for this! That's probably why not every employer has set up an electronic system to record your working hours. If your employer has not yet done so, he or she must do make up for this. The more employees he or she has, the longer it takes to set up this system.

Note: always write down your working hours yourself anyway! Then you can prove when and how long you have worked. And you can check whether you get paid for all the hours and overtime.