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.

You must give notification using the Minimum Wage Notification Portal if your employee works in one of the following industries:

• Construction
• Hotels and catering
• Passenger transport
• Freight, transportation and related logistics
• Fairgrounds
• Forestry
• Cleaning of buildings
• Companies involved in setting up and dismantling trade fairs and exhibitions
• Meat and meat-processing
• Prostitution

You must enter the following information:

• Employees name and date of birth
• Start date and length of employment or assignment
• Place of work
• Place in Germany where the documents are kept
• Name and address of the person responsible/agency

You will also need somebody in Germany to whom post can be sent, and when giving notification, you must provide their name and address.

• For foreign-domiciled employers: declaration that you comply with the minimum wage
• For employers based in Germany: declaration by the foreign-domiciled posting employer that they comply with the minimum wage

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• Can I do it online? Yes
• Do I need to do it in writing? No
• Do I need to attend in person? No

• You are an employer headquartered abroad and your staff work in Germany, or
• You are an employer headquartered in Germany and you employ at least one temporary worker from abroad.
• The worker you have hired works in one of the following industries:
• Construction
• Hotels and catering
• Passenger transport
• Freight, transportation and related logistics
• Fairgrounds
• Forestry
• Cleaning of buildings
• Companies involved in setting up and dismantling trade fairs and exhibitions
• Meat and meat-processing
• Prostitution.

The employer must give notification online on the Minimum Wage Notification Portal.

• Register on the Minimum Wage Notification Portal
• Confirm your email address and log in
• Complete all the necessary information, upload the supporting documents and click Übermitteln (submit)
• You will receive confirmation of receipt, showing the notification ID and the date and time of your notification

• You must give notification before the employment starts

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