New Rules Regarding Registration Of Working Hours

As of 1 July 2024, new rules will impose new obligations on employers regarding registration of their employees' working hours. Therefore, you may now start considering how you will handle your registration system as well as who will have access to this and how you are going to protect the registered data in the system.

Why this legislative change?

Today, EU's Working Time Directive is implemented in Danish law through the Danish Working Hours Act, which is to ensure minimum protection for employees concerning the determination of their working hours.

On 14 June 2019, the European Court of Justice ruled on the so-called Deutsche Bank case regarding the interpretation of The Working Time Directive. In this decision, the court determined that member states must require employers to implement "an objective, reliable, and accessible system that allows the measurement of the length of each individual worker's daily working time."