Authority for Justice and Consumer Protection
Apply for deviating regulations for shift work
You need a permit from the Office for Occupational Safety and Health if night work is to be carried out in your company or company. Authorization for rework is required by law for: shift operations Construction and assembly site...
You need a permit from the Office for Occupational Safety and Health if night work is to be carried out in your company or company.
Authorization for rework is required by law for:
- shift operations
- Construction and assembly site
- Seasonal and campaign operations
- offshore activities
- special activities for the construction, modification or operation of structures and artificial islands
Address and contact information
Address
Authority for Justice and Consumer Protection
Employee Protection
Billstraße 80 20539 Hamburg
Phone
Opening hours
Mon-Wed 10am-1pm, Thurs 10am-1pm, 2pm-4pm, Fri 10am-1pm, telephone advice only
Facility info
Public transport
S2 / S21 Rothenburgsort, buses 120/122/124/130/160/224/530 Rothenburgsort
Important notes
Prerequisites
Documents required
Please note
However, according to the Working Hours Act, there is the possibility that in an area in which regulations are usually not made by collective agreement, exceptions can be approved by the supervisory authority if this is necessary for operational reasons and the health of the employees is not endangered.
This also includes the possibility of extending the daily working time by more than eight hours without compensation if the working time regularly and to a considerable extent includes readiness for work or on-call duty and special regulations ensure that the health of the employees is not endangered.
Deadlines
There is no deadline.
Procedure & Fees
Procedure
- Access to the online service
- You fill out the fields of the online service completely and send it to the Office for Occupational Safety and Health, including the documents and evidence listed in the application.
- If the documents or information required for processing are incomplete, you will be contacted by the clerk.
- The Office for Occupational Safety and Health examines the application.
- If the requirements for approval are met, you will receive a notification of approval, otherwise a notification of rejection.
- The decision will be sent to you by post.
- You fill out the relevant application form completely.
- You send it to the Office for Occupational Safety and Health, including the documents listed in the application.
- The remaining procedural steps correspond to the online application.
- A notification of fees will be sent to you following approval/rejection.
Processing time
Depending on the examination effort (usually a few weeks after submission of the complete documents)
Fees
100 up to 6,000 EUR
The exact costs will be determined after the approval and depend on the number of employees
Legal notes
Downloads & Links
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Last updated: 03.06.2023