Heavy Labor Ordinance
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Heavy Labor Ordinance |
| Long title: | Ordinance of the Federal Minister for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection on particularly stressful professional activities |
| Type: | regulation |
| Scope: | Republic of Austria |
| Legal matter: | Labor law , social security law |
| Reference: | StF: Federal Law Gazette II No. 104/2006 |
| Date of law: | March 9, 2006 |
| Effective date: | January 1, 2007 |
| Regulation text: | Heavy Labor Ordinance |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version ! | |
The heavy labor regulation governs in Austria, the professional activities as heavy lifting apply. The social security system uses lists to determine which professions are considered hard work for whom. Affected employees can claim an earlier retirement date.
Essential regulations
The Heavy Labor Ordinance issued by the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs in 2006 describes the following activities as particularly stressful occupational activities :
- Shift work or shift work if work takes place during the night for at least 6 hours between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on at least six work days in a calendar month, provided that this work time does not predominantly include work readiness,
- regular activities under heat or cold within the meaning of the Night Heavy Labor Act,
- Activities under chemical or physical influences, if this has caused a reduction in earning capacity of at least 10%,
- Heavy physical work, which occurs when at least 8,374 kilojoules (2,000 kilocalories ) are used by men and at least 5,862 kilojoules (1,400 kilocalories) by women during an eight-hour working period,
- For women, the job-related care of sick or disabled people with special treatment or care needs, such as in palliative care ,
- Activities despite the presence of a reduction in earning capacity according to the Disability Employment Act of at least 80%, provided that there was an entitlement to care allowance at least at level 3.
In the annex to the ordinance, criteria are given as to when a job is heavy physical work (energetic hard work) within the meaning of the ordinance (§ 3). This is used to determine months of hard work (Section 4), which are particularly included in the pension entitlement.
Employers have to report the existence of heavy work independently to the health insurance company for women from the age of 35 and for men from the age of 40 (§ 5).
Heavy work with officials
In the case of federal civil servants, the existence of heavy labor is regulated by Section 15b Civil Service Service Law 1979 in conjunction with the Heavy Labor Ordinance. As in the private sector, the calorie regulation is used. Police officers and soldiers have to meet lower physical performance requirements in order to be fit for duty.
Others
- Discotheque operators can be hard workers. Die Presse , December 5, 2010, accessed on December 19, 2011 (on this RIS law 0126106 and 0126107 : “ An essential characteristic of Section 1 Paragraph 1 Item 1 Heavy Work Ordinance is the necessary change between day and night work.” And “During night work the activity is not decisive; rather the criterion 'night' is important. In this sense, 'lighter' professional activities also fall under this category. ").
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of professions for women and men with “hard physical labor”. (PDF; 53 kB) Austrian Social Insurance , November 2018, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ hard work. Austrian Chamber of Commerce , January 1, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ for the period after June 30, 1993
- ↑ Heavy work in the executive branch . In: Public Safety . No. 5 -6/06, May / June, 2006 S. 151–153 ( Online [PDF; 140 kB ; accessed on July 12, 2019]).
- ↑ Sequence of the selection process. Federal Ministry of the Interior , accessed on July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Review of physical performance. (PDF; 252 kB) Army Personnel Office , p. 1 f. , accessed December 4, 2015 .
