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.

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

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 employee...

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 domestic employees on a mini-job basis, you must register this using the household cheque 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.