Hours and payroll

Counting working time is an obligation, not an option: where hours differ between employees, the employer must be able to produce a daily and weekly record and keep it available. In a dispute over overtime, the absence of a record counts against them.

The law nonetheless requires no clocking device, no geolocation and no minute-by-minute record. Anything beyond that is a management choice, and that choice carries an acceptance cost in the field.

This section also covers payroll data: why it's always late, why an oversight costs more than a delay, and the single automatic check that catches nearly every oversight.