In this sense, what Spanish legislation says is that working time is defined as “any period during which the worker is at work, at the disposal of the employer in the exercise of their activity or their functions, in accordance with national legislation and/or practices”.
Therefore, it is clear that if a worker attends an event organized by their company and has a commercial purpose or nature, it is time in which they are at the disposal of the organization, even if they go there voluntarily. Therefore, it is also working time and must be calculated as such.
In addition, the worker has the right to have the start of the next working day scheduled 12 hours after having finished this type of activity, and not at their usual time. In return, the Law says that rest time is defined in opposition to the previous definition, that is, “any period that is not working time”.
Since attendance at these types of special commercial events outside of working hours is also considered working time, it is necessary to register them appropriately, with systems such as Timenet, which allows each worker to register their working hours through any device that has an Internet connection. It is an application accessible from anywhere and allows this problem to be easily solved!