A1 Certificate for Posted Workers in Germany Employer-Managed by Jobbatical

Jobbatical's A1 certificate service for Germany covers the posted worker process end-to-end: confirming whether each trip needs an A1 certificate, identifying the competent home authority, preparing and filing the A1 Bescheinigung, handling any Meldeportal-Mindestlohn (Zoll) notification, requesting Article 16 exceptions via the DVKA, and keeping audit-ready records. Your HR team confirms the posting details and we manage everything else, so every employee you post to Germany stays compliant from day one.

When you post staff to Germany, Jobbatical applies for the A1 Bescheinigung in the employee's home country, never in Germany. We identify the competent authority — HMRC (UK), SVB (Netherlands), TGSS (Spain), ZUS (Poland) or CPAM (France) — prepare the filing, and submit it at least six weeks before departure. If the A1 certificate is still processing when travel begins, we supply the application receipt so your posting stays compliant.

Jobbatical files A1 certificates through the competent social security authority in each employee's home country, so multi-country teams run through one managed process. We handle filings with HMRC (UK), SVB (Netherlands), TGSS (Spain), ZUS (Poland), CPAM (France) and other EU, EEA and Swiss authorities, applying the A1 Bescheinigung on the right basis — Article 12 posting, Article 13 multi-state, or Article 16 exception — for every employee you send to Germany.

Jobbatical can handle the Meldeportal-Mindestlohn (Zoll) notification alongside the A1 certificate, because many postings to Germany need both. The A1 Bescheinigung covers social security, while the separate Zoll notification is a labour-law filing required before work starts in listed sectors such as construction, hospitality, transport and logistics. We check whether your sector is in scope and file the notification on time, helping you avoid fines of up to €30,000 (2026).

For postings to Germany that run longer than 24 months, Jobbatical manages the Article 16 exception agreement that keeps your employee in their home social security system beyond the standard Article 12 limit. We request it through the home authority, which agrees it with the German DVKA, and we start early because the process takes around four months (2026, subject to change). We also track the 24-month limit so extensions are never missed.

The A1 certificate itself is issued free of charge by the home authority, so Jobbatical's cost is a service fee for managing the A1 Bescheinigung end-to-end — eligibility, filing, Zoll notifications and record-keeping. Pricing depends on volume and the countries you post from, and we quote per posting or as a package for teams posting staff to Germany regularly. Book a demo for pricing tailored to your posting volumes (2026).

Jobbatical keeps your A1 postings to Germany audit-ready by storing one digital record per posted employee — the A1 certificate, application receipt, Zoll confirmation, contract and time records — for at least four years, with German-language documents accessible on site. Our platform sends expiry alerts on every A1 Bescheinigung and the 24-month limit, and verifies A1 data via EESSI, so your team is ready for any FKS (Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit) inspection.