Germany Modernises Posting-of-Workers Rules: New Same-Day Notification Details Required From 29 June 2026

With the Federal Gazette’s publication of the ‘Law on the Modernisation and Digitalisation of the Fight Against Illegal Employment’ on 29 June, extensive amendments to two key compliance instruments took effect: the Minimum-Wage Notification Ordinance (MiLoMeldV) and the Employee Posting Act (AEntG). Foreign employers must now provide additional data points – including workers’ nationality, contact details, precise workplace addresses and the identity of German clients – when filing mandatory notifications before staff begin work on German soil. Mobile work received special attention.



VisaHQ’s Germany portal (https://www.visahq.com/germany/) gives HR and mobility teams a practical edge in coping with these new obligations, offering intuitive tools to collect nationality, address and client details, validate documentation and create compliant declarations before personnel set foot in Germany—helping organisations avoid the hefty fines attached to MiLoMeldV and AEntG breaches.

The ordinance clarifies that courier, waste-collection and winter-service crews count as ‘exclusively mobile’ and may file a single six-month rota instead of daily notifications – but cross-border road transport is explicitly excluded, meaning trucking firms must continue to report every cabotage engagement individually. For corporate mobility programmes the changes translate into tighter deadlines and heavier data-collection overheads. Many global HCM systems do not currently store German client addresses or the passport nationality of posted workers, forcing HR to collect the information manually. Penalties remain steep: up to €30,000 per missing or incorrect notification under MiLoMeldV and €500,000 under AEntG if underpayment of wages is also found. The law also authorises the Ministry of Finance to mandate electronic filing via the EU’s Internal Market Information (IMI) System, paving the way for end-to-end digital audits. Employers should therefore review their service-provider agreements: from 2027 Customs will be able to cross-check postings in real time against payroll data and site inspections. Early adopters may wish to integrate posting workflows into global mobility management software to avoid last-minute project delays.