In this framework of irregularities in the registration of working hours, two illegalities come together: on the one hand, labor exploitation that directly involves forcing employees to perform tasks without remuneration during part of the day, or outside of it, and on the other, the absence of objective control of the periods in which the employment is carried out.
It seems that one of the most frequent frauds in this sense is to pay money in undeclared form for the difference between the working hours stated in their contract and the one actually worked, or in other cases to pay it entirely in undeclared form; the sectors in which this situation occurs most are the hotel industry, construction, agriculture, and domestic work.
In order to prevent these frauds, a specific campaign to supervise the registration of working hours was carried out last year, in which the Labour Inspectorate detected irregularities in a total of 11,070 workplaces, out of the 32,634 it visited, and this resulted in a total of sanctions worth 13.76 million euros.
All these inspections aim to monitor and control the rules and limits on working time, also on the maximum working day and overtime, which is the essential task of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate.