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AUT-1972-L-42840
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Title_of_text
Federal Act concerning holiday and severance pay regulations for workers in the construction industry (Construction Workers’ Annual Leave and Severance Pay Act - BUAG), BGBl. 1972/414). Text No. 81.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Austria
Subjects (Classification)
Specific categories of workers; Construction workers
Adopted on (Date of text)
1972-10-25
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Original title
Bauarbeiter-Urlaubs- und Abfertigungsgesetz (BUAG)
Abstract/Citation
Provides for special holiday regulations in certain areas of the construction industry, enumerated in subsection 1(2). Employees are entitled to thirty days paid leave after they have worked at least 46 weeks. Should the employee become ill during paid leave, the days of illness shall not be counted as paid leave. Also provides for severance pay if an employment contract is cancelled by the employer and the employee has worked at least 6 months. Further claims to severance pay are specified in s. 13b. Consolidated text.
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
1998-08-14 (AUT-1998-L-51642)
Amendment of the Act on bad weather compensation for workers in the construction industry and the Act on holiday and severance pay for construction workers. No. 113.
Amending text(s)
1998-08-14 (AUT-1998-L-51642)
Amendment of the Act on bad weather compensation for workers in the construction industry and the Act on holiday and severance pay for construction workers. No. 113.
Amending text(s)
2010-07-21 (AUT-2010-L-87459)
Federal Act to amend Federal Act concerning holiday and severance pay regulations for workers in the construction industry (Text No. 59/2010).
Amending text(s)
2012-12-28 (AUT-2012-L-93673)
Federal Act to amend Federal Act concerning holiday and severance pay regulations for workers in the construction industry, and Construction Workers Bad Weather Compensation Act 1957.
Amending text(s)
2013-07-30 (AUT-2013-L-95933)
Federal Act to amend: Federal Act concerning holiday and severance pay regulations for workers in the construction industry, General Social Security Act 1955, Unemployment Insurance Act (AIVG), Labour Market Financing Act (AMPFG)
Amending text(s)
2014-12-16 (AUT-2014-L-98827)
Act to amend: Employment Contract Law Harmonization Act; Temporary Work Agency Act; Worker Protection Act; Federal Act on arrangement of hours of work; Act concerning holiday and severance pay regulations for workers in the construction industry; Unemployment Insurance Act (Labour and Social Law Amendment Act 2014)(BGBl. I Nr. 94/2014)
Amending text(s)
2015-12-28 (AUT-2015-L-101917)
Labour Law amendment Act (BGBl. I Nr. 152/2015)
Amending text(s)
2017-07-31 (AUT-2017-L-106382)
Federal Act to amend: Construction Workers’ Annual Leave and Severance Pay Act; and Construction Workers Bad Weather Compensation Act 1957 (BGBl I 114/2017)
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Act on-line in English/German
Author
Bundeskanzleramt
Publisher
Rechtsinformationssystem (RIS)
Country
Austria
URL
http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/
File
ERV_1972_414.pdf (PDF Act as amended to 2007 (English/German))
Monograph region
Monograph title
Arbeitsrecht
Author
Dittrich, Veit, Tades
Publisher
Manz Verlag
Place of publication
Vienna
Country
Austria
ISBN
3-214-11148-5