Contract agent
In Austria, a contract employee is a public servant whose employment relationship is not based on an act of sovereignty (official decision ), as is the case with civil servants , but is contractually established as with an employee in the private sector.
Legal bases
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Contract Employees Act 1948 |
| Long title: | Federal law of March 17, 1948 on the service and salary law of federal contract employees |
| Abbreviation: | VBG |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Republic of Austria |
| Legal matter: | Special private law |
| Reference: | StF: Federal Law Gazette No. 86/1948 |
| Date of law: | March 17, 1948 |
| Last change: | BGBl. I No. 65/2015 |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version ! | |
Each federal state as well as the federal government has its own law on contract employees ( special private law ).
- Federal Government: Contract Employees Act 1948 (reform 1999)
- Styria:
- Municipal Contract Servants Act 1962
Labor law position
In detail, there are differences to the labor law regulations for employees in the private sector in Austria. So is z. B. a contract employee after a certain period of time only stating a reason for termination, such as. B. breach of duty or physical or mental unsuitability for service can be terminated (limited right of termination of the employer).
Currently also be contract staff under special contract (VB / S) as police cadets set which after completion of their training in the civil service status as law enforcement officers of the police to take effect.
In Austria there are around 55,000 contract employees under public law (2013: 54,820 contractual staff), which is a share of just over 40% of the public employees (2013: 42.2% of 129,873 in full- time equivalent VBÄ). Due to the pragmatization stop in 1997, the proportion has gradually increased.
- See also: Public Service: Austria - Facts and Figures on the Labor Market
Web links
- Public service web portal (oeffentlicherdienst.gv.at) , Federal Chancellery Austria, directory - reports - contributions
- Insurance company for public employees: facts and figures
Individual evidence
- Entry on contract employees in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- ↑ Contract staff ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , verwaltung.steiermark.at, Dept. A7 - Municipalities and Internal Affairs
- ↑ civil servants, contract staff. Federal Chancellery, oeffentlicherdienst.gv.at> Das Bundespersonal (accessed February 21, 2015).
- ↑ stop pragmatization; Official posts in the 1998 and 1999 establishment plans , Gfz. 466/14-III / C / 97, circular no. 27/1997 (on bmbf.gv.at)
