How does the registration of working hours affect the self-employed?

Since May 12, 2019 and via Decree Law, the registration of working hours is mandatory for all companies; but there may be doubts about how it affects the legal status of self-employed workers, since they sell their services to the highest bidder, and ultimately sell specific results.

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The self-employed are not affected by the law on the registration of working hours, since they do not directly sell working time, but the fruit of their work, therefore self-employed workers are not obliged to register or keep their working hours.

In any case, self-employed workers who have hired workers must look for a system to control their working hours, since in this case they act as employers and must comply with current regulations.

The system for controlling working hours must allow the entry and exit times of the business workforce to be registered, including everything that is considered effective working time. In the event that there are different types of stoppages, employers and workers will need to negotiate how they will be counted.

In cases where teleworking is agreed upon, or where there is travel, it will also be necessary to carry out this registration of the working day, and with time control systems such as Timenet, it will be very simple, since it can be done through an easy and inexpensive application, which does not require any software to operate, you will only need a device with an Internet connection.

Another important aspect is that the time control system used complies with the requirements of the law on data protection, and also that it allows the data to be stored for 4 years, so that only authorized managers or the worker themselves have access to it; again timenet facilitates all these aspects.

 

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