Anna Ritzberger-Moser Ljubljana, 2012-09-17 Austrian Labour Market Experience
Dec 23, 2015
Anna Ritzberger-MoserLjubljana, 2012-09-17
Austrian Labour Market Experience
Austrian Labour Market Experience
• Austrian labour market - facts and figures• Short time work (main instrument used during crisis
2009)• Act on the combating of Wage- and Social Dumping• Youth and work• Older employees:
- fit2work- Reform of the invalidity pension- Reform of the Health and Safety at Work Act
Anna Ritzberger-MoserAustrian Labour Market Experience
Austrian labour market
• 3,5 m employed persons
• employment +1,5 % (8/2011 – 8/2012)
• unemployment rate:- 2008: 3,8 %- 2009: 4,8 %- 2010: 4,4 %- 2011: 4,1 %- 8/2012: 4,5 %
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Austrian labour market
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Austrian labour market
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Austrian labour market
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Unemployment development 6/2009 – 8/2012
Austrian labour market
Employment rate of people aged 55 to 64
Employment rate of people aged 60 to 64 in Austria (2011)Total: 20,9
Men: 27,1
Women: 15,1
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Total Men Women
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Austrian labour market
• de facto retirement age (2011) for old-age and invalidity pensions:
Total: 58,3
Men: 59,2
Women: 57,3
• retirement age for invalidity pensions (2011):
Total: 52,4
Men: 53,7
Women: 50,1
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Short-Time Work
• The subsidy on short-time work is paid in case of a temporary reduction of working time due to temporary economic difficulties
• Prerequistes: Public Employment Service counselling, social partner agreement
• Subsidy level: fictious unemployment pay + social insurance contributions (calculations by means of lump rates)
• Extend of working-time reduction: 10 to 90%
• Duration: up to 18 (3 x 6) months
• Retention period (depending on the duration): 1 to 4 months
• Short-time work with qualification: the subsidy is augmented by 15 % during qualification measures in order to increase incentives for qualification measures
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Act on the combating Wage- and Social Dumping
• Collective agreements apply to all persons employed in Austria, also to posted workers and in case of cross-border temporary agency work
• Verification of base pay compliance
• Requirement to keep pay documents readily available
• Administrative penal provisions
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Youth and work
• Focus on - Counselling and job placement assistance- Second-chance trainings for drop-outs or skills enhancement
support
• Training guarantee for young people:- For each young person, who wants to take up an
apprenticeship- If there is no place in a company based apprenticeship
programme: supra-company apprenticeship training• “Youth Coaching”
Managing the transition from school to work
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Older employees – fit2work
• Objectives:- to reduce invalidity / to prevent unemployment for health
reasons at an early stage- to reintegrate people into the labour market after longer
periods of sick leave for health reasons - to preserve capacity for work on a long-term basis by taking
preventive measures.• “navigation tool” • low-threshold consulting services• on a voluntary basis
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Older employees – invalidity pension reform
• Objectives:- sustaining/improving employability – reintegration into labour
market- preventing early retirement (pension for occupational
invalidity)• measures:
- Persons < 50: no invalidity pension- Temporary occupational disability: ill treatment, health
rehabilitation; „rehabilitation benefit“ (sickness benefit)- Incapacity to fulfill skilled work due to illness: retraining;
„retraining benefit“ (unemployment benefit)- Only if rehabilitation or retraining measures are impossible,
the person concerned gets invalidity pension
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Older employees – Health and Safety at Work Act
• Austrian Health and Safety at Work Strategy 2007-2012:
Advising and monitory actions in SMEs on-analysing the workers’ age structures-identifying work processes and interferences which could be age-critical-establishing age(ing)-friendly working conditions.
• Health and Safety at Work Act – Reform 2012-Prevention of work-related psycho-social stress-Workplace evaluation has to consider these stress factors, e.g. work organisation, work environment, excessive demands
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