Association of employed pharmacists in Austria
The Association of Employed Pharmacists Austria (VAAÖ) is a professional interest group capable of collective agreements for pharmacists and aspirants employed in public pharmacies and in hospital pharmacies.
background
Independent of party politics, he represents the professional and social interests of pharmacists employed in Austria . The association advises its members on labor, social and tax law problems and on the occasion of becoming self-employed. In 1999 he fought for the equal treatment of partial service providers with regard to advancement in the payroll scheme before the Constitutional Court .
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, employed pharmacists had difficult working conditions. They were poorly and unevenly paid. Not even the worthy job title “employed pharmacist” was ascribed to them, at that time they were only called “pharmacist assistants”, then “pharmacist assistants”. These pharmacist assistants either had a master's degree in pharmacy or completed an apprenticeship in a pharmacy.
The calls for the formation of an association for pharmacist assistants grew ever stronger. In 1891 the “General Austrian Pharmacist Assistants Association” was founded with around 150 members, including some independent pharmacists. Paul Jobst was the director. In the following year a club office with job placement was founded. The association also made its first claim under labor law: working time of 8 hours / day.
In the course of history the name of the association has been changed several times:
- 1896: General Austrian Pharmacists Association
- 1897: Association of Austrian Pharmaceutical Associations
- 1910: Pharmaceutical Reich Association for Austria
- 2000: Association of employed pharmacists - VAAÖ
The year 1907 brought a lot of progress for the pharmacists, among other things the pharmacist assistants were given the right to an official representation of interests in the "Apotheker-Gremium" (forerunner of the Apothekerkammer).
In the period of the First World War between 1914 and 1918 the reforms were suspended and since many men went to war, many women work in the pharmacies. As a result, two female functionaries were active in the Reich Association for the first time in 1921.
In 1938 the Reichsverband was dissolved, which was followed by the revival of the Reichsverband through the re-establishment in 1946.
In 1948 it was decided that only employed pharmacists are allowed to be members of the Reich Association, otherwise the Association would not have been able to enter into a collective agreement. The ability to enter into a collective agreement was first granted to him in 1949, and the new collective agreement for the whole of Austria followed in 1952.
In 1954 the branch association of the Reichsverband, the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Krankenhausapotheker" (Working Group of Austrian Hospital Pharmacists) was founded, with which all employed pharmacists - from both institutional and public pharmacies - were gathered under one roof, namely that of the Reichsverband.
In 2000 the name change to “Association of Employees Pharmacists Austria” (VAAÖ) and a new statute were decided.
In 2008, under the leadership of Ulrike Mayer as President, the VAAÖ was able to implement necessary reforms for a long time.
The goals of the association are:
- Securing the profession of "employee pharmacist"
- Creation of a separate professional law, a pharmacy law
- Fair wages
- Improvement of working conditions
- Social security for employed pharmacists and much more.