• Employees would be able to record their daily working hours, for example, by means of an app, in an Excel sheet or, traditionally, with pen and paper. After all, it makes no difference whether an employee records the start of the working day by pressing a button on a computer or smartphone, by clocking in or by writing it down.

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It could be expected that, as a result of the BAG's decision, it will be easier for an employee to demand compensation from the employer for overtime worked in the case of a missing time recording system.
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In-house counsel share their organisation’s most sensitive data with outside law firms. Yet 70% of legal departments have no tool for assessing their law firms’ data security, and nearly 30% are dissatisfied with current methods.
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