Austria: employment restarting stirs up the debate on flexible working time

New recruitments, less work. In 2008 and 2009, the Austrian economy cut nearly 45,000 jobs. However, with the recovery, statisticians from the Employment Agency (Arbeitsmarktservice – AMS) think that, in 2010 and 2011, businesses should create, respectively, 19,500 and 24,000 jobs, thus nullifying the losses of the past couple years. However, the AMS also says that the workload generated by these new jobs will still be lower than that lost during the crisis. Besides, sectors where jobs are created are in services, while the industry recruits temporary and fixed-term workers.
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, when the industry has suffered the most from the crisis. In the industry, the jobs are mostly temporary or fixed-term. The hardening of both parties foretells very tense collective negotiations in October. (Ref. 100532)

New recruitments, less work. In 2008 and 2009, the Austrian economy cut nearly 45,000 jobs. However, with the recovery, statisticians from the Employment Agency (Arbeitsmarktservice – AMS) think that, in 2010 and 2011, businesses should create, respectively, 19,500 and 24,000 j

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