Time tracking in Greece

Greek time records must support daily working-time evidence, Digital Work Card categories, and GDPR controls, and Everhour turns entries into reports.

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Working-time records for Greek teams

Track Greek work hours

Greek employers need daily records that show actual working time, not only scheduled hours. As an EU Member State, Greece is covered by the CJEU requirement for an objective, reliable, and accessible system that measures each worker's daily working time. That record matters for wage earners, managers reviewing overtime, and teams that split time across clients or projects.

A practical Greek timesheet should show the worker, date, start and end time, break time, project or cost center, leave or rest category, and approval status. Greek-language labels and euro-denominated outputs reduce payroll cleanup for local teams. The record should distinguish time actually worked from paid time not worked, because payroll, leave, and project reporting answer different questions.

Build the record correctly

A strong workflow starts with the employee's normal daily and weekly employment hours, because Greek employer information to workers must include those terms. Each entry then records actual time against a day, task, project, or work location. Managers should review exceptions, missing breaks, late edits, and entries that exceed the employee's agreed schedule before payroll closes.

Greece's Digital Work Card was introduced by Law 4808/2021. The Ministry of Labour describes it as a mechanism for enforcing schedules, overtime, and working-time arrangements. ERGANI II uses Digital Work Card data to classify normal time, overwork, overtime, arrangements, breaks, days off, and leave, so internal records should use categories that can be reconciled without manual translation.

Handle Greek compliance checkpoints

The EU Working Time Directive sets a 48-hour average maximum weekly working time including overtime and requires 11 consecutive hours of daily rest in each 24-hour period. Those limits make daily start and end times more useful than a weekly total alone. A weekly total can show cost, but it does not prove daily rest.

Part-time records need extra care. Greek Ministry guidance says additional work beyond agreed hours for part-time employees is paid with a 12% increase for each extra hour. Teams should keep agreed hours, actual hours, and approved extra hours visible in the same review flow. Employee time data is personal data under GDPR and Greek Law 4624/2019, supervised by the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.

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A simple weekly timesheet is enough for a freelancer, a small client project, or a one-off summary of billable hours. It works best when one person enters time, one person reviews it, and the output is a clear total by day, project, and rate in euros. The risk grows when corrections, approvals, and multiple categories sit in separate files.

A managed workflow fits teams that need continuous records across projects, clients, employees, leave, and payroll periods. Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, exports, scheduled delivery, and overtime visibility in Team Hours and custom reports. That structure keeps review work repeatable instead of rebuilding the same spreadsheet each month.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which Greek time categories should a work record separate?

A Greek work record should separate normal working time, overwork, overtime, working-time arrangements, breaks, rest days, and leave. ERGANI II uses Digital Work Card data for those categories, so matching the categories internally makes payroll review and exception checks cleaner.

Does Greece require daily working-time records?

Greece is covered by the CJEU rule requiring Member States to require an objective, reliable, and accessible system for measuring each worker's daily working time. Greece also introduced the Digital Work Card through Law 4808/2021, with Ministry guidance describing real-time working-hour records connected to ERGANI II.

Which rest rule should Greek timesheets help verify?

Greek timesheets should help verify the EU Working Time Directive baseline of 11 consecutive hours of daily rest in each 24-hour period. A daily record with start time, end time, and breaks supports that review better than a weekly total.

Do part-time employees in Greece need separate extra-hour tracking?

Part-time employees in Greece need records that separate agreed hours from additional work beyond agreed hours. Greek Ministry guidance states that those additional hours receive a 12% increase for each extra hour, so payroll needs the extra-hour count before it applies the premium.

Which data privacy rules apply to employee time records in Greece?

Employee time records in Greece are personal data governed by GDPR and Greek Law 4624/2019. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority supervises that regime, so employers should process time data with lawfulness, transparency, purpose limitation, and data minimization in mind.

How does Everhour Reporting support Greek time tracking reviews?

Everhour Reporting gives teams configurable reports with 45+ columns, filters, grouping, date ranges, exports, scheduled email delivery, and overtime visibility through Team Hours and custom reports. Managers can review time by person, project, client, billable status, cost, and invoice status before payroll or billing.

How can Everhour timesheets help with approvals?

Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time. Submitted and approved entries are locked for regular members, which protects reviewed records from late edits before payroll, billing, or reporting.

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