Ringier radios introduce working time recording

Dani Büchi, managing director of Energy Switzerland, confirmed this to the NZZ on Friday. According to the NZZ, this circumstance is noteworthy because Ringier, like Tamedia before it, was reported a month ago by the journalists' organizations Impressum and Syndicom for failing to record working hours.

However, Büchi denied to the NZZ that the introduction of the working time recording system was a reaction to public pressure. "Work on the recording system has already been underway for about a year." Energy decided to test the recording of actual working hours as part of a certification process.

Ringier spokesman Edi Estermann says the group supports the energy test. "However, this has nothing to do with the clarifications Ringier is currently making." Estermann would not say what has emerged from Ringier's clarifications to date, according to the NZZ. At the end of March, the group plans to discuss the issue together with other publishing houses. Further steps will be decided after the annual meeting with the Zurich Labor Inspectorate next April 9.