Overview

• The proposed law would abolish the daily eight-hour limit in favor of a 48-hour weekly maximum and phase in mandatory electronic time recording over the next year.
• Frederik Neuhaus of clockin expects larger firms to face the digital-recording requirement first, with extended deadlines for smaller companies.
• The CDA is pushing for continued rest-time safeguards in high-risk sectors such as healthcare, construction and gastronomy under the weekly cap.
• SPD leaders and the German Trade Union Confederation insist any extension beyond eight hours per day must gain works-council approval and collective-bargaining consent.
• A YouGov poll for the Deutsche Presse-Agentur shows 38% of Germans back the shift to a weekly cap, while 20% oppose it and 37% remain neutral.