The European Court of Justice case of CCOO v Deutsche Bank in
the summer of 2019 made it clear that employers must have
objective, reliable and accessible systems for recording and
measuring the duration of time worked each day by every
worker.
When the judgment came out, we produced some resources and now,
18 months on, we have updated all our material. What follows is
accurate as at 25 November 2020.
To help employers understand the differing levels of risk across
the EU in relation to time recording, we have drawn up some data on
risk. For the map below, we asked our experts across the EU to rate
the strictness of their time-recording requirements on a scale of 1
to 3. We then asked them to rate the strength of the enforcement
regime and we added the scores together to build a colour-coded
picture of risk. Countries with no existing specific time-recording
requirements and a soft approach to enforcement pose the lowest
risk, whereas countries with strict
