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Working from home: first-time employment - notification obligation
Service Description
Anyone employing persons with home-based work for the first time must notify the competent authority.
A company provides home-based work if it employs persons who the Home Work Act describes as home workers or home-based tradespeople.
Process flow
The notification can be sent in writing or online.
You can send the notification in writing:
Please send the following information:
- Full address of the company (company stamp)
- Processor
- Telephone, e-mail
- List of products that are to be manufactured at home
- Surname and first name of the home worker (HA), home craftsman (HGW), intermediate foreman (ZM) or equivalent (GL)
- Information on the employment relationship (HA, HGW, ZM, GL)
- Gender
- Date of birth
- Address of place of work (home/place of business)
- Type of employment (exact description of the assigned work or part of the work, e.g. "sewing aprons")
- Employed since (exact date)
- Finally left on (exact date)
If you would like to send the home office list online, the following steps must be carried out:
- Call up the online service
- Fill in the fields of the online service completely and send it to the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection, Regional Inspection South Thuringia
Who should I contact?
Please contact the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection (TLV) Occupational Health and Safety Department.
Requirements
- You must spend or pass on home work.
Which documents are required?
- List of products that are to be manufactured at home
What are the fees?
The granting of a permit in accordance with Section 9 (2) HAG (keeping charge slips instead of charge books) or in accordance with Section 23 (2) HAG (calculation aid per calculation item) is subject to a fee. The fees are determined in accordance with the applicable schedule of fees or costs.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Prompt notification to the competent authority when persons are employed to work from home for the first time.
What else should I know?
Anyone who provides home work must keep a home work list, pay slips and pay registers. Before taking up employment, they must inform the persons accepting the work about the type and nature of the work to be performed, the accident and health hazards to which they are exposed during the work and about measures and facilities to prevent these hazards.
The remuneration to be paid and the various supplements to remuneration are set out in various "binding regulations" depending on the sector, which can be obtained from the competent authority, among others.
Further Information
Author
Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry for Social Affairs, Family and Health
Professionally released on
13.03.2024
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
Competent Authority
Thüringer Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz (TLV) - Regionalinspektion Südthüringen
Postal address
99947 Bad Langensalza
Delivery address
98527 Suhl
Parking spaces
Besucherparkplatz Finanzamt (Parkzeit 2 Stunden)
Number: 20
Fees: no
