Greater parity between white and blue collar employees – what you need to know
On 12 October 2017, the Austrian parliament (Nationalrat) agreed a partial harmonisation of employment law provisions for white and blue collar employees. The most significant changes are to regulations on continued remuneration during sick leave as well as notice periods regarding the termination of employment relationships. I. Changes to continued remuneration from 1.7.2018 Previous […]
New collective bargaining agreement for commercial employees effective from 1.12.2017
On 24.7.2017 the Austrian social partners agreed on a reform of the remuneration system for commercial employees and apprentices and created a fundamentally new pay scale as part of a modernisation and further development of the collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”). The CBA was published on 18.10.2017. We recommend analysing the changes now, ahead of time, […]
