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Compliance
Time Tracking in Mexico: The Duty That Already Exists, and the 40-Hour Reform That Raises the Stakes

There is a common misconception about time tracking in Mexico: because no law forces an employer to install a particular time clock, many companies assume that recording hours is optional or informal. It is not. The…

Greg Miaskiewicz

Greg Miaskiewicz

CEO & Co-Founder

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Compliance
Remote Work in Germany: The Protections, the Allowances, and the Truth About the Right to Disconnect

In Germany, "working from home" is not one legal status but three, and which one a worker is on decides both the protections they receive and the obligations the employer takes on, from who pays for the desk to whether…

Niko Nurmentaus

Niko Nurmentaus

Product Lead

Remote Work in Germany: The Protections, the Allowances, and the Truth About the Right to Disconnect
Compliance
Remote Work Is Law in Portugal: The Right to Disconnect and What It Costs Payroll

In a lot of countries, "remote work policy" means whatever an employer decides to write in a handbook. In Portugal it means the Labour Code. Remote work, teletrabalho, is a detailed statutory regime, rewritten by Lei…

Greg Miaskiewicz

Greg Miaskiewicz

CEO & Co-Founder

Remote Work Is Law in Portugal: The Right to Disconnect and What It Costs Payroll
Payroll Calculations
The German Minijob: Why It Exists and How Payroll Handles It

The Minijob is one of the most distinctly German things in payroll. It is a job deliberately kept small enough that, for the worker, gross pay and take-home pay are almost the same number. No income tax, no social-security deductions from the employee’s side...

Niko Nurmentaus

Niko Nurmentaus

Product Lead

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HR & Labor Law
Are Your Platform Workers Actually Employees? Portugal's Article 12-A and the 2025 Supreme Court Wave

Picture a food-courier or a ride-hailing driver in Lisbon. They signed up through an app, they are labeled a self-employed provider, they invoice for their work, and everyone involved has treated...

Niko Nurmentaus

Niko Nurmentaus

Product Lead

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