Sanctions for Business ?: A new debate on the Hours of Work Act is revived

This comes out of a report from the "Wiener Zeitung" (weekend edition). The boss of the ÖVP club, August Wöginger, has announced to the newspaper a more severe action against companies that violate the new law on working hours. This should be deterred "black sheep". "You have to think about tightening up the criminal law so that you can meet those who do not respect the law," Wöginger said in a newspaper article. The details are however open.

At the Ministry of Social Affairs Beate Hartinger-Klein (FPÖ), they agreed to the "Wiener Zeitung" to take concrete measures of readjustment always cautious. "Several options are in the study." But the abuses would not be tolerated, he said. For the SPÖ, it is indeed welcome, if something does not work, will be repaired. But: "The law on working time belongs to the same level as the representatives of the renegotiated employees," SPO spokesman Josef Muchitsch told the company.

SPÖ demands renegotiations

"The world of work works differently, as some believe in Parliament," he said about the leadership of the president of the club ÖVP, Wöginger. The Social Democrat, the Social Democrat, has criticized the People's Party and the Freedom Party for hardening: "There is nothing wrong with saying that we want to correct something that can not be corrected "said Muchitsch.

The Labor Chamber (AK) revealed this week the case of a 56-year-old badistant cook in Vienna who was reportedly pressured and fired. As a result, the Vice Chancellor and FPÖ leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, threatened to impose sanctions on entrepreneurs who did not respect the right of the government to be free to act. apply the new rules on working time and apply the twelve-hour day. More specifically, it is stated in the law that employees may "reject the eleventh and twelfth hours without giving any reason". This pbadage was strongly criticized for its "false free will" before the adoption of the law.

Contract: "Want to afford 60 hours"

The Salzburger Nachrichten (weekend edition) reported a new case. A large hotel in the Salzburg-Bergland region has submitted to a candidate a contract of employment stipulating: "The employee expressly and voluntarily declares that he wants to work up to twelve hours a day and up to 60 hours a week if the work is increasing. "

This shows how this volunteering is practiced in practice. Peter Eder, President of the Salzburg Salary Authority, is angry at this new example. This shows even more explosive, so the "Salzburger Nachrichten" sees the contract but in addition to a base salary of 1 620 euros gross monthly all-inclusive package of only 32.62 euros per month, with the "claims of whatever kind, "are covered.

For Muchtisch, the current law on working time includes three mistakes: neither the four-day week, nor the free time, nor the volunteering at the eleventh and twelfth hours "are worthless in practice". In agreement, twelve hours would have worked well before the amendment of the law: with the approval of the works council and the employees, when an urgent order had to be treated, said Muchitsch. "The Labor and Social Court has never been used in this way."