China's Labor Law sets concrete working-hour and overtime rules. Everhour Time Tracking helps turn daily work records into reviewable timesheets.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
| Day | Time In | Break Start | Break End | Break | Time Out | Total |
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A practical timesheet in China gives payroll and managers a clear record of who worked, which dates they worked, start and end times, break treatment, total daily hours, project or task assignment, and approval status. China's Labor Contract Law also requires an employer to establish an employee roster from the date the employment relationship begins, so timesheets should connect cleanly to the worker's basic employment record.
China does not impose one universal clock-in system for every employer. The legal need is still concrete: records must support working-hour, overtime, roster, and wage-payment obligations. A weekly timesheet works best when it preserves daily detail instead of only showing a weekly total, because the country's rules include daily limits, monthly overtime limits, and different overtime pay categories.
China's Labor Law sets ordinary working time at no more than 8 hours per day and no more than 44 hours per week on average. A China timesheet should make those figures easy to review before payroll closes. It should also separate ordinary hours from extended working hours, rest-day work without compensatory leave, and statutory-holiday work.
Overtime rates need their own categories because the Labor Law uses different minimum rates: at least 150% for extended working hours, 200% for rest-day work when compensatory leave is not arranged, and 300% for statutory-holiday work. Employers may extend working hours after consultation for production or business needs, generally by no more than 1 hour per day, up to 3 hours per day for special reasons, and no more than 36 hours per month.
Identifiable time entries and attendance logs are personal information under China's Personal Information Protection Law when they relate to an identified or identifiable natural person. A timesheet should collect the data needed for HR, payroll, scheduling, billing, and compliance review without adding monitoring fields that do not serve a defined workplace purpose.
PIPL allows personal-information handling without separate consent where it is necessary for human-resources management under lawfully formulated labor rules and structures or lawfully concluded collective contracts. Biometric information and individual location tracking receive stricter treatment as sensitive personal information. Cross-border transfers of employee personal information require a PIPL transfer route, individual notice, and separate consent.
A one-off timesheet is enough when you need a clean weekly record for a small team, a single contractor, or a narrow payroll review. It should show daily hours, overtime category, approval status, and any payroll notes. Mainland business users also expect Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters, so Simplified Chinese presentation is the practical baseline for local workflows.
A managed workflow fits better when time feeds multiple projects, clients, approvals, budgets, or payroll reviews. Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through timers or manual entries, works inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp, and sends entries into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
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China does not prescribe one universal clock-in or timesheet system for all employers. Employers still need records that support working-hour limits, overtime pay, employee roster obligations, and wage-payment review. The format can vary, but the record should preserve enough daily detail to verify ordinary hours, extended hours, rest-day work, statutory-holiday work, and approval history.
A China timesheet should separate ordinary hours from extended working hours, rest-day work where compensatory leave is not arranged, and statutory-holiday work. The Labor Law uses different minimum pay rates for those categories: 150%, 200%, and 300%. Combining them into one overtime field creates payroll rework because the correct premium depends on the reason the hours were worked.
Daily totals are the safer structure because China's Labor Law includes an 8-hour ordinary daily limit and overtime extension rules. Weekly totals still matter because ordinary working time must not exceed 44 hours per week on average. A good record shows both: each day's start, end, breaks, total hours, and the weekly summary.
Identifiable attendance and work-time records are personal information under PIPL. Basic HR use can fit the necessary human-resources management basis when handled under lawful workplace rules or collective contracts. Biometric checks, individual location tracking, and cross-border employee data transfers need stricter review, separate consent where required, and clear notice to the worker.
The biggest mistake is mixing all extra hours into one overtime total. China's Labor Law applies different minimum pay rates to extended working hours, rest-day work without compensatory leave, and statutory-holiday work. A timesheet that labels the reason for the extra hours lets payroll apply the correct category before wages are finalized.
Everhour Time Tracking lets teams record task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, then route those entries into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules to keep submitted time controlled before it moves downstream.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, project data, costs, budgets, and billable time into configurable reports. Teams can add columns, group records, filter by project or member, set date ranges, and export reports as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for payroll review, client billing, or internal archive needs.
Track approved hours, overtime categories, project work, and payroll review steps in one workflow. Everhour connects daily time entries to approvals, reports, invoices, and review-ready records.
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