Time Tracking for Managers and Senior Management Staff

The usual question: do bosses clock in?

A frequent question is whether managers are required to record their working hours. The answer depends on the type of employment relationship they have with the company.

Senior management staff

Senior management staff have a special employment relationship (RD 1382/1985). Due to their characteristics —autonomy, full availability and decision-making power— they are not subject to the ordinary working day nor, generally, to the time-tracking obligation.

"Ordinary" managerial staff

Not everyone in a position of responsibility is senior management. Middle managers, team leaders or managers with an ordinary employment relationship are subject to time tracking like any other worker.

The key is not the position or the salary, but the type of employment relationship: special senior management or ordinary.

How to tell them apart

• Senior management: powers inherent to ownership of the company, autonomy and a special contract.
• Ordinary manager: responsibility but within a common employment relationship.

Practical recommendation

When in doubt, it is advisable to document the relationship of each manager and apply tracking to those who are not senior management, avoiding mistaken interpretations in an inspection.

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Conclusion

Only senior management staff with a special employment relationship are outside time tracking. Other managers and supervisors must clock in like any worker.