German and Farsi – AMS now offers bilingual gastronomic education

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The AMS Vienna is currently conducting a pilot project in which 14 asylum seekers are being trained in two languages ​​- German and Farsi – as system catering specialists with a learning certificate. This aid is intended to help them better integrate into the labor market.

“It is an important pilot project that provides information on how this can also work on a larger scale,” said Labor Minister Martin Kocher (ÖVP) on Monday at the presentation of the project at Weidinger & Partner’s training center in Vienna.

Last summer, the Ministry of Labor gave the AMS the objective of promoting the placement of people entitled to asylum or subsidiary protection in Austria, Kocher said. “The AMS Vienna has already implemented this in an exemplary manner in a number of pilot projects.”

Rapid integration is intended to combat labor shortages
According to the minister, a lack of language skills and a lack of education are major obstacles to integration in the labor market. The pilot project presented addresses both issues. “At the same time, training is being carried out in areas with a major labor shortage in Austria.” There are currently 6,400 vacancies in catering establishments across Austria, of which 1,000 are in Vienna alone.

“We currently have 5,200 asylum seekers from Afghanistan and 1,200 from Iran in Austria registered with AMS Vienna alone,” Kocher said. The aim is to integrate them into the labor market as quickly as possible. The current project is a specialist training. The aim should be to equip people entitled to asylum or subsidiary protection as soon as possible with the skills and capacities necessary for integration into the labor market, “in compulsory intensive training”, says Kocher.

The bilingual course lasts three months longer, namely 90 instead of 78 weeks. The system gastronomy was chosen as a pilot project because it had a native speaker trainer, explains the state manager of the AMS Vienna, Petra Draxl. Next year there will also be a bilingual Arabic course for construction and installation technology.

Participants in training receive a training bonus
The participants in the training receive about 930 euros per month. There is also a training allowance of 68 euros in the first three months, explains Kocher. From the fourth month of specialist training, this amounted to 180 euros last year, and that amount will soon be increased to more than 200 euros, which will be given monthly in addition to the WW. “In 2024 we want to introduce a third level for people who have been in training for more than a year, because it is of course extra challenging to be able to afford that. We have fixed it in the nursing allowance, where it is stated with a lower limit of 1400 euros. But we also want to increase the training bonus for other specialist courses in the second year, i.e. after a year of training – that will then be more than 300 euros per month in addition to the unemployment benefit.”

Source: Krone

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