Salaried employees with unregulated working hours and exemptions from the working hours agreement

It is quite common that salaried employees in certain positions have so-called unregulated working time. This means that the salaried employee largely takes responsibility for and plans his or her own work and decides on how working hours are to be arranged. To be counted as unregulated, however, it is not enough that the salaried employee is exempted from the right to special overtime compensation. The collective agreement excludes certain employees from the working time agreement and gives the employer the opportunity to agree with an employee on unregulated working hours under certain conditions.