Answers at a glance

You create a free profile and enter the weeks and times of day you are available and how far you would travel. When a business near you is looking for someone who fits, we ask you first whether you want to be suggested. The business only gets your contact details once you agree. You are employed directly by the business.

No. You enter your email address and receive a sign-in link. One tap and you are in. The profile takes about three minutes and works well on a phone.

Not for casual jobs. We only ask for the essentials: name, date of birth, where you live, whether you can get around, and whether you have hospitality experience. If you like, you can upload your CV, references or health certificate in the portal under “Documents”. A business only sees them if you share them with a specific job suggestion.

Anyone handling food in hospitality needs the instruction under § 43 of the German Infection Protection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz), commonly called “Gesundheitszeugnis”. You get it from the local health office (Gesundheitsamt), often online, usually for €20 to €40. For your very first job, the certificate may be no more than three months old when you start. You can upload it in the portal and send it along with a suggestion. You show the original to the business on your first day.

Yes. Our focus is casual staff and mini-jobs, but chefs, restaurant and hotel professionals with completed training are just as welcome. In your profile you enter your profession and whether you are looking for part-time, seasonal or permanent work. Everything is free for professionals too.

Yes, from age 18 and if you genuinely work self-employed, meaning with a registered trade or as a freelancer, for example as a service professional or chef. In your profile you choose “Self-employed, on assignment”, optionally enter your hourly rate and whether you are available at short notice. You sign the contract directly with the business and invoice them yourself. No money goes through us, and it is free for you.

From 18 you can register a trade (Gewerbe), even alongside school or university: at the trade office, usually online, for about €15 to €65. Then you register with the tax office via ELSTER using the tax registration questionnaire and tick the small business rule (Kleinunternehmerregelung, § 19 UStG): with no more than €25,000 turnover in the previous year and under €100,000 in the current year you do not charge VAT; in the first year the limit is €25,000. You only pay income tax above the basic allowance (2026: €12,348) and trade tax only above €24,500 profit. Important: anyone working to a roster like an employee is not self-employed. Everything step by step is in the guide at jobtresen.de/en/freelancer-werden. General information, not tax advice.

A registered trade or a freelance activity. You write your own invoices, pay tax on your income yourself and take care of your own insurance; we recommend business liability insurance. If you handle food, you also need the instruction under § 43 of the Infection Protection Act as a self-employed person. If you essentially have only one client in the long run and no employees of your own, you may be required to pay pension insurance (§ 2 sentence 1 no. 9 SGB VI). You can upload your trade registration and proof of insurance in the portal under “Documents”.

We cannot give a guarantee. We suggest you to suitable businesses; the business makes the decision. The more precise and up to date your availability is, the better your chances.

Yes, at any time yourself in the portal under Settings. While paused you receive no suggestions. Deleted means deleted: your data is then removed.

No. Everything is free for candidates, now and later. Our work is paid for only by businesses through their membership.

The business pays your wage, not us. We only accept requests that pay at least the statutory minimum wage (€13.90 per hour, from 1 January 2027 €14.60). With us this also applies to young people under 18, even though the law would allow less.

From 16. At 16 and 17 you sign up yourself; we do not need confirmation from your parents. The youth employment protection rules apply to you, though, for example shifts ending by 10 pm at the latest. Unfortunately we cannot place anyone younger.

Under 18, the Youth Employment Protection Act applies: at most 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week, on at most 5 days. From 16, work in hospitality is allowed until 10 pm. We do not even suggest shifts that end later to minors. The employer is responsible for compliance.

Nothing for the profile: we only place people from 16, and at that age young people sign up themselves. For minors, parents co-sign the employment contract with the business. There is a separate page for parents under “For parents”.

Only us. A business only gets your contact details once you have agreed to a specific suggestion, and this is logged. Uploaded documents are only included if you tick them for that suggestion.

On servers in the EU (Frankfurt). We do not store copies of ID cards, social security or bank details. Before every season we ask whether you are in again. Anyone who does not reply becomes inactive; after a longer period of inactivity we delete the profile. The exact periods are in the privacy policy.

You create a business account or use the form without an account. The request states casual staff, skilled staff or freelancers, period, time of day (exact shift times are optional), task, number of people and hourly wage (for freelancers an optional net budget), and whether we should search around your postcode or nationwide. Nationwide you also reach candidates who would relocate for a position. We look for suitable candidates, obtain their consent and suggest them to you personally. You decide and hire them directly.

Businesses become members and pay no fee per hire. The monthly fee depends on how many candidates are active within 15 km of the business's postcode: under 30 candidates €0, from 30 candidates €29, from 100 candidates €59, from 250 candidates €99 net per month. On jobtresen.de/en/betriebe you can see what applies to you after entering your postcode. We announce a higher tier 6 weeks in advance, you only pay if you book it yourself, and membership can be cancelled monthly. Anyone who joins while it is still free for them pays 50% less permanently. There is no guarantee of a hire.

You employ casual staff, for example as a mini-job or short-term employment: you are the employer, set the roster and instructions and register the person. Freelancers take on an assignment on their own responsibility, with their own trade, their own invoice and their own price, without an employment contract. What matters is not the contract but how the work actually happens: anyone working to your roster like your employees is usually employed, even if they write an invoice. Good fits are, for example, a hired chef with several clients, event and catering service, a bartender for an event or cover for a head chef.

Only if the person genuinely works self-employed. Then there is no employment contract and no registration; you pay the invoice. If it is actually employment, for example a normal service shift to your roster, you are the employer with all obligations: social security contributions, even retroactively for up to four years (up to 30 years if intentional) plus late-payment surcharges, immediate notification and minimum wage. Withholding contributions is a criminal offence (§ 266a StGB), and hospitality is checked particularly closely for undeclared work. If in doubt, the status determination procedure of the German Pension Insurance (§ 7a SGB IV) clarifies the status. For spontaneous casual staff, the legal fast route is short-term employment: registering with immediate notification at the Minijob-Zentrale takes a few minutes online.

No. We only place them. The employment contract is made directly between you and the candidate; roster, wages and instructions are up to you. We are not a temp agency and do not step in ourselves if someone drops out.