Employee-related registration requirements

Notification of the employment of a pregnant or breastfeeding woman Receipt

If one of your employees has informed you that she is pregnant or breastfeeding, you must notify the competent supervisory authority.

Show employment of animal welfare officers

You can report animal welfare officers at your facility or company to the State Office for Occupational Safety, Consumer Protection and Health (LAVG).

Immission control officer Appointment

If you have newly appointed or dismissed an immission control officer or if there have been changes in his area of responsibility, you must notify the competent immission control authority.

Report new management to the Chamber of Crafts

You must report a new management of your craft business subject to approval to the responsible Chamber of Crafts.

Report the dismissal of the management to the Chamber of Crafts

If the current management stops or a change takes place, you must report this to the Chamber of Crafts.

Notify the management of the change in personal data to the Chamber of Crafts

If the personal data of the management of a craft business registered in the register of craftsmen changes, you must inform the competent Chamber of Crafts.

Notification of employment in connection with the operation of third-party X-ray equipment or a third-party interference source Acceptance

Do you employ people who work with external X-ray equipment or external stray radiation sources and may be exposed to a dose higher than 1 mSv? Then you must report this to the competent authority, enclosing the necessary documents (notification).

Notification of the performance of the duties of the radiation protection officer Receipt

If the person responsible for radiation protection changes in your company, you must inform the competent authority.

Notification of appointment, change of duties or powers or resignation of a radiation protection officer Receipt

As the person responsible for radiation protection, you must inform the authority if you appoint or dismiss radiation protection officers. This also applies if the area of responsibility or the powers of radiation protection officers change.

Register employees or staffing agencies based abroad on the Minimum Wage Reporting Portal if they are employed or hired in Germany

If you are a foreign employer that employs staff in Germany, you must give notification of this through the Minimum Wage Notification Portal. The same applies if you are a German employer employing foreign temporary workers.

Draw up and publish a report on equality and equal pay

Under certain conditions, you as a private employer must prepare and publish an equal opportunities and equal pay report. As an employer, you are obliged to treat all employees...

Request approval to count jobs with less than 18 hours per week toward a mandatory job requirement

If your company employs severely disabled persons or persons with equivalent disabilities who work less than 18 hours per week, you can count them towards a compulsory job under certain conditions.

Request to a company to register with the artists' social insurance fund

You have not yet fulfilled your obligation to self-report and the Künstlersozialkasse has written to you to check your obligation to pay contributions.

Result of an audit by the German Pension Insurance

If the German Pension Insurance has examined you or your company, the Künstlersozialkasse will take over the result of this examination.

Registering the hiring of domestic help on a mini-job basis

If you employ a household helper on a minijob basis, you must register them with the Minijob-Zentrale using the Haushaltsscheck procedure.

Report newly appointed legal or statutory representatives and general partners in the course of a significant investment in an institution.

If you, as the holder of a significant interest in an institution in Germany, appoint a new legal or statutory representative or a new shareholder, you must notify BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank immediately.

Inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin of the execution, abandonment or change of the intention to appoint a person to the management or to authorise a person to act as sole representative

If you, as a bank or financial services company, intend to appoint a managing director or authorise a person to act as sole representative of your institution and have carried out, abandoned or changed this intention, you must inform BaFin.

Informing the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin about new, changed or terminated corporate holdings of banks and financial services institutions

If you as a bank or financial services institution acquire shareholdings in other companies, you must inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). The same applies if your shareholdings in companies change.

As a manager of a credit institution, indicate secondary activities

Do you manage a credit institution? Then you have a personal duty of disclosure to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) regarding your activities at other companies.

Social security rights and obligations in the EU

This section provides information on social security rights and obligations in the EU.

Deregistration of business or self-employed activity in agriculture, forestry or horticulture

If you discontinue your agricultural, forestry or horticultural business, you must report this to the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture.

Report changes in the agricultural, forestry or horticultural enterprise or self-employment in agriculture, forestry or horticulture.

Something has changed at your agricultural company? You must report this to the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture.

Register a new business or self-employment in agriculture, forestry or horticulture

Are you setting up or taking over an agricultural, forestry or horticultural business? Then you must register it with the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG).

Apply for voluntary insurance and voluntary supplementary insurance in the agricultural accident insurance scheme

If you are not compulsorily insured through an employers' liability insurance association, you may be able to insure yourself voluntarily against accidents at work and on the way to and from work as well as occupational diseases. This option is also available to volunteers under certain conditions.

Apply for a health insurance subsidy for pensioners from the Agricultural Pension Fund

If you have voluntary or private health insurance, you can apply for a subsidy for your health insurance.

Request certificate of paid contributions from the Agricultural Pension Fund

Do you need a certificate of your contributions paid to the pension fund for your income tax return? You can request this certificate free of charge.

If you wish to employ children for performances or events, you must apply for an exemption from the ban on child labor.

The written appointment of a responsible person must be reported to the competent authority. The person must have a valid certificate of competence for handling explosives.

Personnel notification Care and nursing facilities Acceptance

If you intend to operate a facility in accordance with Section 4 BbgPBWoG, you must submit a staffing plan for the implementation of the concept as part of the notification of...

Personnel notification for care and nursing facilities Acceptance annually

As the operator of a facility in accordance with the BbgPBWoG, you must report your staff to the supervisory authority for supportive housing forms, e.g. at its request, in...

Management staff Care and nursing facilities Reception

As an operator of facilities within the meaning of Section 4 BbgPBWOG, you must report the name, professional training and career of the management and the nursing service...

Personnel notification for care and nursing facilities Acceptance on an ad hoc basis

As the operator of a facility in accordance with the BbgPBWoG, you must report your staff to the supervisory authority for supportive housing forms, e.g. if requested to do so.

Company number for social security notifications assigned on request

As an employer, you must register your employees who are subject to social insurance contributions. You will need a company number for this.

Apply for a temporary employment permit

If you want to lend employees to a third party, you need a permit to do so.

Reporting the hiring out of employees

Is your company facing short-time working or redundancies? Then, under certain conditions, you may lend workers to third parties without permission if you notify the employment agency in advance.

Issue and submit certificate of employment or certificate of secondary income

If your employees or the BA require a certificate of employment, you must send this to the BA. The same applies to a secondary income certificate if employees or persons working for you on a self-employed basis have applied for or are receiving current cash benefits.

Get internship for foreign students or university graduates confirmed

If you as a company or exchange organization would like to offer foreign students or university graduates an internship in Germany, you must obtain confirmation from the Federal Employment Agency in advance under certain conditions.

Obtain work permit for seasonal employment of foreigners

For the temporary employment of people from Georgia and the Republic of Moldova as seasonal workers, you as an employer must apply for a work permit from the Federal Employment Agency.

Notify the Federal Employment Agency of the posting of foreign workers to Germany within the framework of contracts for work and materials

If, as a foreign company, you wish to send foreign workers to Germany for a short period of time for assembly and disassembly work within the framework of contracts for work and materials, you must notify the Federal Employment Agency in advance under certain conditions.

Notify the Künstlersozialkasse of changes to the company's basic data

You must inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your company's contact details change. You should also inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your contact details change.

Notify the Künstlersozialkasse of any changes in legal circumstances.

If the legal circumstances of your company change, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. The change may affect your obligation to pay contributions.

Report and pay social security contributions for employees

As an employer, you are obliged to submit monthly contribution statements for your employees to the social security authorities and to pay the social security contributions specified therein.

Apply for an A1 Certificate

Are you an employer and planning to send employees abroad temporarily? If you need proof that German social security law continues to apply, you should apply for an A1 certificate for your employees.

Deregistering employees for social insurance

If an employee leaves your company, you must report the end of the employment relationship to social insurance.

Report remuneration subject to contributions for employees

If you employ staff, you must report their pay to the social security authorities.

Notify the Künstlersozialkasse of the change in the purpose of the company

If the object of your business has changed, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. The change may affect your obligation to pay contributions.

Register employees for social insurance

As an employer, you are obliged to register your employees with social insurance.

Adjusting advance payments to the artists' social security fund

Do you expect to pay significantly lower fees to self-employed artists or publicists compared to the previous year? Then you can apply for a reduction in your monthly advance payments for the artists' social security contribution.

Submit annual declaration for artists' social security contributions

If your company is registered with the Künstlersozialkasse, you generally have to submit an annual remuneration report. The Künstlersozialkasse needs this report in order to calculate the amount of the artists' social security contribution you have to pay.

Registering or re-registering a company with the artists' social security fund

If you run a company that is liable to pay social security contributions, you must register your company with the Künstlersozialkasse.

Check obligation to pay the artists' social security contribution on shareholder remuneration

If your partner works for you as an artist or journalist, you must pay artists' social security contributions on the remuneration under certain conditions.

Advise registered companies on the artists' social security contribution

If you have any questions about the artists' social security contribution, you can contact the Künstlersozialkasse.

Enquire about your company's account balance with the artists' social security fund

If you have any questions about your tax account or need a current account statement, you can contact the Künstlersozialkasse.

Company audit by the Artists' Social Security Fund

Have you paid fees to self-employed persons for journalistic or artistic services? Then the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) will check the correct declaration of these fees in your company.

Apply for payment relief for companies from the Artists' Social Security Fund

If your company is unable to pay the Artists' Social Insurance Fund's current claim on time, you can apply for payment relief.

Notify the artists' social insurance fund of the company's mission

If you have given up or discontinued your business, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. The cessation of your company leads to the termination of the artists' social security contribution obligation.

Take advantage of advice on the obligation to pay artists' social security contributions at information events

Would you like to find out about the artists' social security contribution obligation for your company? Then you can take part in an information event organized by the Artists' Social Security Fund under certain conditions.

Requesting the withdrawal of a decision by the Artists' Social Security Fund

If it turns out that a decision by the Künstlersozialkasse is incorrect, it will revoke it under certain conditions.

Applying for reinstatement to the previous status with the Artists' Social Security Fund

Have you missed a statutory deadline for an application or notification? Then, under certain conditions, you can make up the missed deadline without any disadvantages.

Report a work, commuting or school accident to the statutory accident insurance provider

If a work, commuting or school accident has occurred in your company or institution, you must report it to your relevant employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Insure employees in the statutory accident insurance during temporary work abroad

If your employees are temporarily working abroad and you want the statutory accident insurance to continue to apply, you usually have to apply for it.

Reporting months spent abroad by employees to the statutory accident insurance scheme

If your employees have worked abroad, you must report the duration to your employers' liability insurance association or the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance on request.

Terminate foreign insurance with statutory accident insurance

If employees return early after temporary work abroad, you as the entrepreneur must report this to the accident insurance.

Apply for, change or cancel voluntary insurance or supplementary insurance with the statutory accident insurance scheme

If you are not insured against accidents at work by law, you can apply for voluntary insurance. You can change or cancel the insurance at any time.

Request clearance certificate for statutory accident insurance companies

Does your company belong to a professional association or accident insurance fund and has paid the contributions to the statutory accident insurance? Then you can prove this with a clearance certificate to main companies or contracted companies.

Report payroll totals to the accident insurance institution

As a company, you must submit your employees' wage statements digitally.

Reporting the employment of a domestic helper to the statutory accident insurance fund

You are obliged to register all persons employed in your private household for statutory accident insurance and to inform your accident insurance fund of any changes.

Report a suspected occupational disease to the statutory accident insurance fund

If you have indications that an occupational disease may be present, you have the option of reporting this to your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Immediately register employees for social insurance (immediate registration)

As an employer, you are obliged in certain sectors to register your employees with social insurance before they take up employment.

Informing the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin of the intention to appoint a manager or to authorise a person to act as sole representative

If you, as a bank or financial services company, intend to appoint a person to the management or to authorise a person to represent your institution on an individual basis, you must inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin.

Informing the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin of the appointment of a member and deputy members of the administrative or supervisory body

If you, as a bank or financial services company, intend to appoint a member or deputy member of the administrative or supervisory body, you must inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin.

Report work and commuting accidents to agricultural accident insurance

If an accident at work has occurred in your company or institution, you must report it to the accident insurance company.

As an entrepreneur, apply for exemption from compulsory insurance by the Agricultural Pension Fund

Under certain conditions, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the Agricultural Pension Fund.

Apply for a subsidy for the contribution to the agricultural old-age insurance fund

Under certain conditions, you can receive a subsidy for your contribution to the Agricultural Pension Fund.

Deregistration of your insured employee relatives (Mifas) from the agricultural health insurance fund or nursing care insurance fund as well as the agricultural old-age insurance fund

Your family members no longer work full-time in your company? Then you must deregister these family members with the Agricultural Health Insurance Fund and Old Age Insurance Fund.

As an employee family member (Mifa) apply for exemption from compulsory insurance of the agricultural old-age fund

If you work as a relative in an agricultural company, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance by the Agricultural Pension Fund under certain conditions.

Apply for exemption from compulsory insurance of the Agricultural Old Age Insurance Fund in case of income outside agriculture

Do you receive an income outside of agriculture that is more than twelve times the mini-job limit per year? If so, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the agricultural pension fund under certain conditions.