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Employment Law Amendment 2016 (BGBl I 64/2016)

Country(ies)

Austria

Subjects (Classification)

Employment policy, promotion of employment and employment services

Adopted on (Date of text)

2016-07-30

Scope of text

National

Type of legislation (Type of text)

Law, Act

Original title

Dienstrechts-Novelle 2016

Abstract/Citation

Main objectives of the amendment:
- Creation of terms of use for contract servants of all pay schemes.
- Standardization of obligations to communicate with the service authority in disciplinary proceedings.
- Revision of the provisions on retirement by means of the Declaration (Draft of: pension for the arduous work, Corridor Pension and Long-Term employee pension) due to the abolition of the general provisions on retirement by declaration on reaching a certain age on 1 September 2017.
- Adjustment of the provisions on compensatory leave for civil servants and teachers.
- Creation of the possibility of reducing the utilization rate for judges after a long illness.
- Securing federal staff in the case of long-term sickness due to special occupational stress situations.
- Combination of the UO 1 and UO 2 application groups into common application group.