anna ritzberger-moser ljubljana, 2012-09-17 austrian labour market experience

Anna Ritzberger-MoserLjubljana, 2012-09-17

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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Unemployment development 6/2009 – 8/2012


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


Total Men Women

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EU 27 47,4 +1,1 55,2 +0,6 40,2 +1,6Austria 41,5 -0,9 50,6 -1,0 32,9 -0,8Slowenia 31,2 -3,8 39,5 -6,0 22,7 -1,8Source: EUROSTAT/employ/indic_y/emp_rt (retrieved on 19.04.2012); * in percentage points


• 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


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


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


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


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

Anna Ritzberger-MoserLabour Law Reform in Austria

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


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

Anna Ritzberger-MoserLabour Law Reform in Austria


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