Schools and kindergartens are urgently looking for staff. Two examples from Salzburg are currently causing a stir when it comes to vacancies in school administration and language support personnel in kindergarten.
Sylvia Wallinger is the principal of 540 elementary school children. At her school in Salzburg-Lehen, registration for the coming school year has only just started. The phone rings every minute. The director usually picks it up himself. She hasn’t had an administrative assistant since Easter, so no secretary. A new one is not in sight.
None of the applicants got the job
“There was an application process. We even had a preferred candidate,” explains a frustrated Sylvia Wallinger. “But she didn’t.” The non-profit association “Frau & Arbeit” was looking for administrative assistants for the schools in December, and the company also hires workers for the state of Salzburg.
Wallinger’s preferred candidate, who officially applied and underwent the procedure, and a second preferred candidate for a school in Liefering were not given a chance. But no one else got the job. After all, only women who reintegrate into the labor market may be hired. Both applicants were not enrolled in the AMS, they just wanted to change careers.
“Especially at Salzburg’s largest primary school, a quick and unbureaucratic solution would be urgently needed,” says Bernhard Auinger (SPÖ), city vice president responsible for schools. “The situation was not ideally resolved,” explains education council member Daniela Gutchi (ÖVP). “Woman & Work” was given specifications that were amply met. We are working on a solution for .
No staff, no money
In kindergartens, meanwhile, there is a problem with federal funding guidelines. These guarantee a workforce that is deployed to promote the language skills of the children. However, those who have not yet found staff for the coming year at the end of the year – for example due to a shortage of staff – will not receive a subsidy for the current operating year. Not even if there is still someone for the position in January. “The sufferers are the children again,” said Andreas Haitzer (SPÖ), Schwarzach’s local manager.
Source: Krone
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