For every driver you must record the start, end and duration of daily working time, within seven calendar days of the shift, and keep the record for at least two years. That's § 17(1) of the German Minimum Wage Act (MiLoG) for the passenger transport sector (statute, in German).
Schichtzettel ("shift sheet") builds that record from your drivers' Uber and Bolt activity, checks it against the minimum wage and hands the hours to payroll. No paper, no catching up at month end.
Last updated: 20 October 2026
Required-fields checklist
The Minimum Wage Act names three items. The rest makes the sheet easy to follow for an inspector.
Sources: § 17 MiLoG · § 4 ArbZG · exemptions for high monthly pay and family members: § 1 MiLoDokV
Deadlines under § 17 MiLoG
The driver works, say on Tuesday 13 October. The recording clock starts.
Start, end and duration must be written down by the end of the seventh following calendar day: midnight on 20 October in this example.
The record stays available for at least two years and must be produced on request.
Source: § 17(1) MiLoG. On top of that, § 16(2) ArbZG requires you to record any time worked beyond eight hours a day and keep those records for at least two years too (§ 16 ArbZG).
What customs checks
In Germany, minimum-wage and undeclared-work checks are run by customs, through its Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit (FKS) unit. Passenger transport is one of the sectors the Undeclared Work Act singles out, and the checks cover reporting duties and minimum-wage compliance (§ 2(1) SchwarzArbG).
Anyone working in passenger transport must carry an ID card, passport or substitute document and show it on request. As the employer, you must tell each driver about this in writing before they start, in a way you can prove, and keep that notice.
In passenger transport, the start of every job must be reported to the pension insurance data office no later than the day work begins (the "Sofortmeldung", or immediate registration). An unregistered driver shows up at once in an interview.
Inspectors compare recorded hours with wages paid. The German minimum wage is €13.90 gross per hour and rises to €14.60 on 1 January 2027. Documents must be kept in Germany, in German.
It's an administrative offence to fail to make the record, to make it incorrectly, incompletely or late, or not to keep it for two years.
Once hours and pay don't match, the question quickly moves from paperwork to the wage itself.
The office problem
Drivers fill in times from memory, sheets get left in the glovebox, and at month end someone in the office reconciles Uber and Bolt exports in Excel, long after the seven-day deadline has passed.
| Gross pay in October (fictional) | €2,400.00 |
| Hours on the timesheets | 186 h |
| Works out per hour | €12.90 |
| Minimum wage 2026 | €13.90 |
On paper this driver is €1.00 an hour below the minimum wage. That's the case you want to spot before an audit, not after.
How Schichtzettel helps
Once your Uber Fleet and Bolt Fleet accounts are connected, every driver gets a daily sheet with start, end and duration. You review, add breaks and confirm.
Days over eight hours, missing breaks or less than eleven hours' rest between shifts (§§ 3–5 ArbZG) show up before they become a habit.
Pay divided by recorded hours, per driver and month. If it falls below €13.90 (€14.60 from 2027), you get a warning.
Confirmed hours go to your payroll or tax adviser in one batch. No retyping, no transfer errors.
Legal basis: § 3 ArbZG (8 hours a day, up to 10 if it averages out over 6 months or 24 weeks) · § 5 ArbZG (11 hours' rest). Germany's Federal Labour Court has also held that employers must record the start and end of daily working time under § 3(2) no. 1 of the Occupational Safety Act, ArbSchG (BAG, order of 13 Sep 2022, 1 ABR 22/21).
Setup
Upload them once, with names and employment type, mini-jobbers included.
From then on, trip data flows in automatically for every driver.
Every morning the office sees yesterday's sheets and confirms them well inside the deadline, not at month end.
From the field
5 h/week → under 1 h/month
That's how far timesheet work dropped at one operator that builds its shift records with this software. More than 700 operators use it to run drivers, cars, platform data and their Konzession (operating licence) instead of spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups.
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Price
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FAQ
Under § 17(1) of the German Minimum Wage Act (MiLoG), you must record the start, end and duration of each driver's daily working time. Passenger transport is one of the sectors listed in § 2a of the Undeclared Work Act (SchwarzArbG), so the duty generally covers all your employees. Date, driver name and breaks make the record easy to follow.
By the end of the seventh calendar day after the day worked. For a shift on Tuesday 13 October, the deadline is 20 October. Records must be kept for at least two years (§ 17(1) MiLoG).
Yes. § 17(1) MiLoG names marginal employees (Minijobber) explicitly, and in passenger transport the duty covers full-time and part-time staff as well. The only exemptions are employees with a steady gross monthly pay above €4,461 (above €2,974 if paid for the last twelve full months) and family members of the employer working in the business (§ 1 MiLoDokV).
§ 17 MiLoG requires start, end and duration of daily working time but does not prescribe paper. What matters is that the record is made on time, is complete, is kept in Germany in German and can be produced during an inspection.
Failing to make, correctly complete or keep the records under § 17(1) MiLoG is an administrative offence with fines of up to €50,000. Not paying the minimum wage, or paying it late, can cost up to €500,000 (§ 21 MiLoG).
Schichtzettel connects to your Uber Fleet and Bolt Fleet accounts and pre-fills start, end and duration for every driver from their activity. You review, add breaks and export the hours for payroll. Pricing starts from $5.99 per driver per month, and setup takes about 48 hours.
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