Living & Working in Austria Land area - Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich

6.8 seasonal workers
The demand for seasonal workers is especially concentrated in the area of tourism as well as
agriculture and forestry and can only be partially met by the Austrian workforce. There is especially
a recurrent need for harvesters (e.g. grape harvesting) from spring to autumn in the Eastern regions
of Austria (Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland and Vienna) which are predominantly characterized
by intensive land cultivation. Skilled workers (skilled restaurant workers, cooks) as well as
auxiliary workers (kitchen help, cleaning staff, housekeeping staff, waitress help, bartenders etc.) are
especially sought after in the winter sport regions of Western Austria from November to March, and
in all tourist regions throughout Austria from May to October.
In the area of tourism, special labour laws provisions are effective (e.g. specific working time during
the week or month, respective regulations concerning rest breaks and days off.)
Information on your rights and obligations as an employee should be obtained from the Chamber of
Labour and trade unions prior to starting a new job.
more details are available at:
http://www.ams.at (Austrian Employment Service (AMS) – seasonal job vacancies)
http://www.ams.at/sfa/14104_1488.html (seasonal work permit for foreign workforce)
http://www.ams.at/_docs/Erntehelfer.pdf (information sheet for foreign harvesters)
http://www.ams.at/_docs/Saisonarbeitskraefte_Land_u_Forstwirtschaft.pdf
(season workforce in agriculture and forestry)
http://www.oegb.at (Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB))
http://www.arbeiterkammer.at (Austrian Chamber of Labour)
6.9 transitional stipulations for new eu Citizens on the austrian labour market
EU citizens from the “new“ EU member countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary) shall only have free access to the
Austrian labour market subject to the fulfilment of specific conditions; these transitional provisions
applicable to EU citizens from the new EU member states will be in effect until 2011 respectively
2013!
please note! No restrictions on the Austrian labour market apply to EU citizens from the new accession
countries of Malta and Cyprus.
Citizen of new EU member states with no free access to Austrian labour market require a permit according
to the Alien Employment Law (Ausländerbeschäftigungsgesetz).
please note! Special regulations apply to skilled and qualified staff from the new EU member states
which are preliminarily valid until the end of December 2008.
http://www.ams.at/sfa/14104_13758.html
more details are available at:
http://www.ams.at/sfa/14074.html (foreign citizens)
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