Anderl: the disadvantages of women in the labour market to compensate for

Vienna (OTS) – Following increased efforts in recent years, AK President Renate criticized Anderl back to a standstill with the projects for the improvement of labour market opportunities for women and for more income justice: „When I look at the plans and projects of the government, I fear, we move in the wrong direction.“ So is reinforced by the extension of the working time to 12 hours a day and 60 hours a week, the traditional division of labour between women and men. Also from the tax family bonus women benefit according to scientific estimates, only one quarter of. While in the past few years, women have been supported at an early stage during re-entry, there is now a u-turn in labour market policy. Anderl: „In the labour market policy objectives of the Minister of social Affairs, there is talk that women should have the freedom to choose whether they educate their children themselves at home, part time or full time work. It needs concrete support from all-day child care offers, all-day schools and family-friendly working conditions that enable full-time. Only then can one talk of freedom of choice.“ Without appropriate support to women in precarious employment are negative consequences of social security pushed with the night, such as low pensions, which ultimately leads to poverty in old age is the warning of the AK President.

Labour Market Policy Mistakes
It is a critical point for Anderlecht, that the Minister of social Affairs has cancelled since 2006, the existing target of 50 per cent of the labour market support for women. Thus, it is to be feared that it is not sufficient financial support for work seekers are women. Also in the Softening of the criteria in the red-White-Red-Card looks Anderl „a disservice to working women and a threat to local wage levels.“ Instead of trying, among other things, the qualification of women, it makes the government in the economy possible to recruit cheap labour from third countries.

Wage gap gapes more
Almost half of all women working part-time. Women are over-represented often in the low-income areas, in better-paid positions of leadership, in contrast, only rarely. In an EU comparison Austria is with a wage gap of around 20 per cent continued to be at the bottom of the League. „This is certainly not a glorious Chapter.“

Anderl calls:
+ Sufficient supply of high-quality full-day childcare and all-day schools
+ Sufficient labour market resources for women and early support of the re-entry
+ no Softening of the criteria for the red-White-Red-Card
+ Introduction of a legal entitlement to a financially secure vocational training and improvement of professional career during unemployment
+ The income reports of companies must not remain at the level of the reports stuck. It also needs binding measures for the reduction of the income gap. Wages and salaries are to be placed in-house open.
+ Legal recognition of the periods of parental leave to all claims in the service relationship.

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