Bundesportal | Registering employees with a foreign connection in the Minimum Wage Notification Portal (Meldeportal Mindestlohn)

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Publisher

Bundesministerium der Finanzen (Federal Ministry of Finance)

Last update or date of publication

January 28, 2022

Contact

The government service telephone number 115 – your point of contact for questions related to the federal, state and local.

Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 18:00 (and beyond these times in some regions).

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You must give notification using the Minimum Wage Notification Portal if your employee works in one of the following industries:

Construction
Hotels and catering
Passenger transport
Freight, transportation and related logistics
Fairgrounds
Forestry
Cleaning of buildings
Companies involved in setting up and dismantling trade fairs and exhibitions
Meat and meat-processing
Prostitution

You must enter the following information:

Employees name and date of birth
Start date and length of employment or assignment
Place of work
Place in Germany where the documents are kept
Name and address of the person responsible/agency

You will also need somebody in Germany to whom post can be sent, and when giving notification, you must provide their name and address.

For foreign-domiciled employers: declaration that you comply with the minimum wage
For employers based in Germany: declaration by the foreign-domiciled posting employer that they comply with the minimum wage

Forms: N/A
Can I do it online? Yes
Do I need to do it in writing? No
Do I need to attend in person? No

Preconditions

You are an employer headquartered abroad and your staff work in Germany, or
You are an employer headquartered in Germany and you employ at least one temporary worker from abroad.
The worker you have hired works in one of the following industries:
Construction
Hotels and catering
Passenger transport
Freight, transportation and related logistics
Fairgrounds
Forestry
Cleaning of buildings
Companies involved in setting up and dismantling trade fairs and exhibitions
Meat and meat-processing
Prostitution.

Hints

Von der Meldepflicht bestehen teilweise Ausnahmen, unter anderem bei:

verstetigtem Arbeitsentgelt von mehr als EUR 2.958 brutto monatlich
regelmäßigem Monatsentgelt von über EUR 2.000 brutto, wenn für die letzten 12 Monate nachweislich gezahlt
Familienangehörigen der Arbeitgeberin oder des Arbeitgebers

Die Meldepflicht ist in einigen Branchen (zum Beispiel Straßenverkehr) dahingehend abgewandelt, dass weniger Angaben erforderlich sind. Über die Ausnahmen zu den Meldepflichten informiert der Zoll auf seiner Internetseite.

N/A

Basis for legal action

§ 16 Mindestlohngesetz (MiLoG)

§ 17b Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz (AÜG)

§ 18 Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz (AEntG)

§ 2a Schwarzarbeitsbekämpfungsgesetz (SchwarzArbG)

§§ 1 - 3 Mindestlohnmeldeverordnung

Legal Remedies

Es sind keine Rechtsbehelfe gegeben.

Procedure

The employer must give notification online on the Minimum Wage Notification Portal.

Register on the Minimum Wage Notification Portal
Confirm your email address and log in
Complete all the necessary information, upload the supporting documents and click Übermitteln (submit)
You will receive confirmation of receipt, showing the notification ID and the date and time of your notification

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Deadlines

You must give notification before the employment starts

Processing time

N/A

Label

Selected region