Austria

New and updated

• Austria: Employee rights

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect changes to the maximum daily and weekly working time limits.

• Austria: Pay and benefits

  Type:

  International

  Updated to include additional information on restrictions to wage and social dumping and reflect changes to the rules relating to the continued payment of remuneration for employees absent from work due to illness or injury.

• Austria: Health and safety

  Type:

  International

  Updated to include information on changes to the rules for payment of employers' subsidies from the statutory occupational accident and illness insurance scheme.

• Austria: Recruitment and selection

  Type:

  International

  Updated to include information about changes to the RWR Card and the RWR Card plus, and to include the 2018 equalisation duty rate.

• Austria: Termination of employment

  Type:

  International

  Updated to include information on changes to notice periods for white-collar employees and blue-collar employees, and to include the 2018 rate of the termination fee.

• Austria: Training and development

  Type:

  International

  Updated to include information on changes to employer obligations to pay for vocational school and entitlement to sick pay for apprentices.

• Austria: Equal opportunities

  Type:

  International

  An employment law guide to equal opportunities in Austria, including harassment and sexual harassment, victimisation, positive action, active measures and remedies and penalties.

• Austria: Useful resources - legal service providers

  Type:

  International

  Information on legal service providers for Austria employment law.

• Austria: Industrial relations

  Type:

  International

  Updated to include additional information on workplaces without works councils.

• Austria: Contracts of employment

  Type:

  International

  An employment law guide to contracts of employment in Austria, including types of contract, written statements of terms of employment, variation of contract and probationary periods.