Employee weekly timesheet

Use our document to enable you to accurately measure and record the daily working hours of each of your workers should you wish to keep this type of record.

Legal position

The law requires you to maintain records which are adequate to show that the maximum weekly working time and night work limits are being complied with, and these records may be created, maintained and kept in such manner and format as you reasonably think fit. However, you need not record each worker’s daily working hours to comply with these record-keeping requirements if you can demonstrate compliance without doing so. Thus, you’re under no statutory obligation to record the actual daily working time of your workers, but you can do so if you wish or if it would help you show compliance with your other record-keeping obligations. Note that although workers aren’t entitled to make an employment tribunal claim for your failure to keep adequate records, it is a criminal offence under the Working Time Regulations 1998 and can be enforced by the Health and Safety Executive.

Weekly timesheet

You can use our Employee Weekly Timesheet, which you can convert into a spreadsheet if you’d rather have an electronic version, to record actual time worked should you wish to do so. It contains columns enabling the worker to insert the day and date, their start and finish times and breaks, the number of regular hours and overtime hours worked and the total number of daily hours, which is then totted up to total weekly hours. Using our timesheet will also enable you to ensure compliance with the provisions in the Working Time Regulations 1998 regarding daily and weekly rest periods.