Working Hours Act: what allverto checks
Breaks after 6 and 9 hours, a maximum of 10 hours a day, 11 hours of rest, work on Sundays and public holidays, automatic break deduction and public holidays per federal state.
allverto checks every day against the most important rules of the German Working Hours Act (Arbeitszeitgesetz, ArbZG) and shows violations as notes on the day, in the team overview and in the working time record. These notes are not legal advice; allverto does not know about exceptions (e.g. from a collective agreement).
The notes
| Note | Rule |
|---|---|
| Statutory break missing | More than 6 hours of work: at least 30 minutes of break; more than 9 hours: 45 minutes (§ 4). Only breaks of 15 minutes or more count. |
| Missing break deducted | With the setting Deduct missing statutory breaks automatically, allverto deducts just enough for work and break to match – e.g. 6:20 hours without a break → 20 minutes deducted, 7 hours without a break → 30 minutes. |
| More than 6 hours in a row | Longer than 6 hours without a break of at least 15 minutes (§ 4 sentence 3). |
| More than 10 hours | A maximum of 10 hours of work per day (§ 3). |
| Rest period under 11 hours | Less than 11 hours between the end of work and the next start of work (§ 5). |
| Sunday work, Work on a public holiday | Prohibited in principle, with exceptions (§§ 9, 10) – allverto marks these days. |
| Stopped automatically – please check | The time was still running at midnight or ended after inactivity. |
Public holidays
allverto calculates the statutory public holidays for each federal state itself – including the movable ones that depend on Easter (Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi), the Day of Repentance and Prayer in Saxony, Reformation Day, International Women's Day in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and World Children's Day in Thuringia. Only holidays that apply in individual municipalities alone (e.g. Assumption Day in parts of Bavaria or the Augsburg Peace Festival) are missing.
allverto calculates all times in German time (Europe/Berlin), including across the switch to and from summer time.