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countries, foreign nationals may not be employed in Austria without first obtaining awork permit.A work permit will only be granted to a foreign national if certain conditions apply. Inparticular, the labour office and authorities dealing with residency permits will check theterms of the proposed employment provisions, the accommodation proposed for theemployee, whether the current position and development of the employment marketwould permit the employment, to ensure that the employment does not conflict withany public or national economic interests.cDiscriminationThere is also an Equal Treatment Act (Gleichbehandlungsgesetz) which forbidsdiscrimination of the basis of sex, age, religion and otherwise with regard to all terms ofemployment, including hiring.iiiContentsaTerms Required or Imposed by LawMinimum Notice PeriodThe minimum notice periods fixed by the law depend on the provisions governing theemployment relationship and on the length of time the employee has been in thecurrent employment.For salaried employees, the periods which must be observed by the employer are asfollows:0–2 years 6 weeks’ notice to the end of the quarter of theyear2–5 years 2 months’ notice "up to 15 years 3 months’ notice "up to 25 years 4 months’ notice "more than 25 years 5 months’ notice "These notice periods may be varied, but not reduced, by collective bargainingagreements or by agreement between the employer and employee. For example, it canbe agreed that notice can be given to the 15th or to the end of every month instead ofonly to any quarter of a year.Salaried employees must observe a notice period of one month to the end of eachmonth. However this period can be shortened or extended up to a period of six monthsas long as the period to be observed by the employer is not shorter than the period tobe observed by the employee.According to the Business Licence Act and the General civil Code, employmentrelationships with manual labourers can be terminated under observance of a 14-daynotice period. However most collective bargaining agreements provide for longer noticeperiods which depend on the length of time the employee has been employed. In anycase, the notice periods for the employer and the manual labourer must be the same.Maximum Working HoursAccording to the Working Hours Act (Arbeitszeitgesetz), in general, an employee maynot work more than eight hours a day or 40 hours per week. Any hours worked inexcess of these hours will be deemed overtime and subject to additional compensationat a marked-up rate.The maximum working hours may be varied, but not increased, by way of collectiveagreements. The usual working hours fixed according to most collective agreements are- 44 -