Government Amends Employee Record Keeping Regulations

The Government has acted on employers’ concerns about compliance with employee record keeping requirements set out in the regulations.

When introduced in March 2006, the Workplace Relations Regulations 2006 required an employer to, amongst other things, record the actual starting and finishing time on a daily basis for its employees, the total number of hours worked by employees during each day and the employees’ nominal hours and any variations to those hours.

The obligation imposed by these regulations on the employer related to all its employees.

Shortly after the introduction of these regulations, many employers and employer groups raised concerns with the Government about the difficulty employers would face in complying with these regulations, in particular, in relation to managerial employees.