The end of the corona working time reduction was initiated in the social committee on Thursday. All special short-time working schemes created by the corona pandemic will expire at the end of September. According to parliamentary correspondence, the amendment to the Labor Market Services Act proposed by the Turquoise-Green coalition was passed with the votes of the ÖVP, SPÖ, FPÖ and the Greens.
The application controls the transition back to short-time work before the pandemic. Accordingly, the possibility of another support amount is extended again until the end of September 2023. After that, the original model will apply again.
However, a regulation on the reduction of working hours for companies will be definitively amended. From October 2023, the allowance will be increased from the fourth month, instead of the previous fifth month, by the employer’s increased social security costs.
criticize NEOS
Criticism came from the NEOS, as short-time work – unlike most other corona-related special schemes – does not expire at the end of June. Minister of Labor Martin Kocher (ÖVP) justified the switch at the end of September with the necessary adjustments to the IT system used by AMS, which will only take place in the autumn. He also stressed that regulations on short-time work are already stricter than before the pandemic. Seen in this way, the model is no longer “corona reduction in working hours”. Currently, only about 1,800 people across Austria are pre-registered for short-time work.
Source: Krone
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