FPÖ/AUF – Herbert renews demand for conurbation allowance for labour-intensive police stations

2023-06-27 19:24:32

“The employees have the right to have their extraordinary achievements, which demand everything from them, also be recognized accordingly”

Vienna (OTS) – “In the last few decades, the ÖVP has been too busy ‘realizing’ itself in the Ministry of the Interior, instead of taking measures against the foreseeable shortage of staff. Under Herbert Kickl as Minister of the Interior, there was a brief period of upswing. After that, the ÖVP expressed their appreciation for our police, who ensure our security every day, in their own way – namely little or not at all. Instead of distributing a climate ticket like alms, it would finally be time to implement the conurbation allowance for labour-intensive police stations that we have been demanding for years,” demanded the FPÖ spokesman for the public service and federal chairman of the AUF NAbg. Werner Herbert. The relevant motion by the Freedom Party was adjourned a year ago by the ÖVP and the Greens in the constitutional committee “to make it disappear into oblivion”. “But we won’t allow that – the conurbation allowance is too important to simply be pigeonholed,” says Herbert.

“Whether uncontrolled illegal immigration or Corona dictatorship – the ÖVP, in cooperation with the SPÖ and now with the Greens, has still ‘managed’ to worsen the working atmosphere in the executive branch through the ever-declining appreciation. However, it is thanks to the commitment and commitment of all public employees in the security sector, especially the police, prison guards and other similar professional groups in the public service, that the security situation does not get out of hand despite the lack of support from the federal government.” , according to Herbert.

The officers have a right to their extraordinary achievements, which would demand everything from them, also be recognized accordingly: “In order to appreciate the additional effort in labour-intensive police stations, but also to effectively counteract the associated staff turnover and the massive shortage of staff, fair ones are needed Compensation in the form of allowances for relevant metropolitan work – like the metropolitan allowance we have been calling for for a long time. The executive has the right to an interior minister who stands behind it, backs it up and ensures the best possible working conditions. ÖVP Interior Minister Karner is certainly not. Apparently, a liberal interior minister is needed again so that the executive can once again receive the recognition it deserves.”