2023-12-16 10:00:16 Labor and social law advice now in Romanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Arabic Vienna (OTS) – In the new year, the ÖGB is taking another important step in supporting employees with a migrant background. From January 2024, the native language advice offering will be expanded to five languages: In the future, advice will … Read more
2023-11-20 12:06:07 ÖGB Lower Austria Chairman Markus Wieser: “Tenders must not be designed on the backs of employees!” Tulln/St.Pölten (OTS) – ÖGB Lower Austria Regional Secretary Christian Biegler-Powolny today drew attention to the unsustainable conditions in local bus transport in the Tulln district. Biegler-Powolny came across the topic by chance at an ÖGB Lower Austria … Read more
2023-11-15 12:10:31 Ingrid Reischl and Willi Mernyi confirmed in positions by the ÖGB Federal Executive Board, Thomas Hochmayr new Federal Managing Director for Finance, Human Resources and IT Vienna (OTS) – A few months following the ÖGB Federal Congress, further key personnel decisions were made in the ÖGB Federal Executive Board today with the appointment … Read more
2023-09-17 11:57:09 After the Raab interview in the ORF press hour: Overdue investment in elementary education – the federal government must finally follow up on announcements with action. Vienna (OTS) – “The financing is unclear and the expansion of elementary education is progressing far too slowly,” said ÖGB Vice President and Women’s Chairwoman Korinna Schumann, … Read more
2023-09-09 12:49:05 After the Raab interview in the Ö1-Mittagsjournal: Overdue investment in elementary education – the federal government must finally follow up on announcements with action. Vienna (OTS) – “The investment in child care of 4.5 billion euros recently highlighted by Susanne Raab is very pleasing, but in the end the money will also have … Read more
2023-08-24 12:20:47 Where the AMS organizes the German courses, they work well Vienna (OTS) – Instead of thinking aloud regarding the obligation to perform German courses for immigrants, “it would make more sense to first check the effectiveness of your own measures”, ÖGB labor market expert Sylvia Ledwinka reacts to Federal Minister Raab’s statements on … Read more
2023-08-22 11:33:12 Employer-friendly “think tank” uses sleight of hand to suggest that working time reductions are already a reality in Austria Vienna (OTS) – In the debate regarding shorter working hours and why these are not possible, “apparently no trick is left out”, says ÖGB labor law expert Martin Müller and is surprised by a … Read more
2023-08-01 07:48:31 Union federation is finally calling for real action. Price increases of almost 25 percent in a year and a half mean that millions of people face payment difficulties Vienna (OTS) – Hardly any other country in the euro zone has higher inflation than Austria – according to a flash estimate, it was seven … Read more