Recently many companies have been affected by a flood of questions about the application of Decree 1.510/09, which established the SREP - Electronic Registration System Point and which came into force on 2010.08.21.

Initially we must clarify that the aforesaid rule had its deadline extended to 2011.03.01, both because of the dissatisfaction with the employer's new costs incurred with the acquisition of electronic devices, as well as the acquisition of software’s or, on the doubts generated in the use of new system.

It’s important to note that the record of the employee's work was constituted as a norm to be observed by the employer, since it rests on this rule, the burden of proving the working hours of your employee. It's little important to time control may be manual, mechanical or electronic.

So it must be remembered that the new ordinance will only focus on companies that already use electronic filing, or on those who opt for it to pass, with no impediment to the return, institution or applicability of the registration of working hours per middle point of the manual or mechanical.