As reported, schools are struggling with overworked and missing teaching staff. Education Minister Martin Polaschek (ÖVP) is now pushing for faster permanent contracts for young teachers. After a trial year of limited duration, only contracts for an indefinite period may follow.
Although this is legally regulated in the new service law, it “apparently is not yet fully implemented by the education departments,” the minister’s office said on Wednesday. Under the Contracts for Employment Act and the National Education Agency Act, young professionals may work for a maximum of five years with fixed-term contracts. The situation in compulsory schools is comparable. This affects, for example, young teachers who first come to a school as a substitute and then take fixed hours.
Permanent contract after a maximum of five years
According to the AHS union, this procedure is only allowed after the first year if someone is used exclusively to replace parental leave, in free stuff, in afternoon care or as a reserve. In other cases, open-ended contracts are a “flagrant violation of the law”.
“In itself it must be the case that permanent contracts are issued as quickly as possible,” Polaschek said in “ZiB 2” on Monday. Representatives of the trade unions and professors then wrote an open letter. “We take your word for it and urge you to take immediate and decisive action to make what you seem to believe already a reality as soon as possible,” it said. At the beginning of this month, NEOS, among others, mobilized against chain contracts for young teachers.
Source: Krone
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