Company outing during working hours

A company outing is usually intended to promote solidarity among colleagues and the working atmosphere. It is therefore also in your employer's interest that many colleagues take part.

Entitlement to remuneration also for a company outing

• Your employer will usually hold the company outing during working hours, for example on a day that would otherwise be a normal working day.
• Since there is no obligation to attend a company outing, colleagues who do not attend will go about their normal work that day.
• In principle, your entitlement to remuneration as an employee results from § 611 Para. 1 BGB, according to which the employer is "obliged to grant the agreed remuneration". On the other hand, on the day of the company outing, you are not performing the work you are actually supposed to do.
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• In most cases, however, when a company outing is carried out during working hours, it is a company exercise for which a claim for remuneration is also provided for that day.


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• Something else is true, however, if in your employment contract it is stipulated that you have to take unpaid leave for the company outing and that you have to make up for the missed working hours.

Meetings with colleagues outside of working hours

• However, if the company outing or other event among colleagues takes place outside of the agreed working hours, you will usually not receive any remuneration for it.
• However, your employer can of course also grant you compensation for time off, for example, if you take part in an event outside of working hours that is also in his interest is.
• Of course, there is also no obligation to attend a company outing outside of working hours.

During a company outing during the working time will you have or will be entitled to remuneration on a regular basis? receive a working time credit from your employer.