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Federal Act to standardize the legislation concerning holidays and the introduction of paid leave to look after persons in need of care (UrlG, BGBl. 1976/390). Text No. 52b.

Country(ies)

Austria

Subjects (Classification)

Conditions of work; Hours of work, weekly rest and paid leave

Adopted on (Date of text)

1976-07-07

Scope of text

National

Type of legislation (Type of text)

Law, Act

Abstract/Citation

Gives each employee the right to take paid holidays. The amount of time corresponds to the number of years the employee has worked for the employer. Also sets out employee's right to take extra paid leave in the event that the employee must look after persons in need of care living with him or her in the same household, or if the employee must care for the children due to the absence of the regular caretaker. This right is limited up to a period of one week (subsection 16(1)), but may be extended under conditions enumerated in subsection 16(2). Consolidated text.

Amending text(s)

1999-08-19 (AUT-1999-L-58150)
Act amending the Act on arduous night-work and the Holidays Act (No. 181).

Amending text(s)

1999-08-19 (AUT-1999-L-58150)
Act amending the Act on arduous night-work and the Holidays Act (No. 181).

Amending text(s)

2002-06-25 (AUT-2002-L-62101)
Act amending the Act on the Adaptation of Labour Contract Law, the Holidays Act and the Unemployment Insurance Act (No. 89 of 2002).

Amending text(s)

2002-06-25 (AUT-2002-L-62101)
Act amending the Act on the Adaptation of Labour Contract Law, the Holidays Act and the Unemployment Insurance Act (No. 89 of 2002).

Amending text(s)

2010-12-02 (AUT-2010-L-87423)
Federal Act on employment contracts in Theatrical Sector (Theatre Work Act 2010) (Text No. 100/2010)

Amending text(s)

2012-03-27 (AUT-2012-L-93623)
Federal Act to amend the Holidays Act and the Agricultural Employment Act 1984

Monograph title

Arbeitsrecht

Author

Dittrich, Veit, Tades

Publisher

Manz Verlag

Place of publication

Vienna

Country

Austria

Date

1995-10

ISBN

3-214-11148-5