The Viennese ÖVP women on women’s day: women’s concerns seriously!

Vienna demand equal pay for equal work, higher pensions for women and protection from Violence

Vienna (OTS) – on the Occasion of tomorrow’s international world women’s day, the Vienna ÖVP distribute women in the Federal capital of roses and information about their focus of work: equal pay for work of equal value, Information about the impact of part-time work in the Pension and protection from Violence.

On the subject of „Equal pay for work of equal value“ call for the Vienna indoor more transparency in the income of, a Federal-wide uniform income report and the anchorage of the recognition of up to 24 months of parental leave with salary vorrückungen, holiday entitlements, periods of notice, continued payment of salary and previous employment period in all collective agreements. In the case of pensions and protection against Violence, our demands: higher pensions and greater protection from Violence.

„Women not only have the right to equal pay for work of equal value, but must also be timely and easily informed about the impact of part-time work in the Board. A self-determined life is our goal. So that every woman can live in Wien so, as you want to,“ says country Director Veronika Mickel on the occasion of international world women’s day.

Important Vienna is it inside of us to show that the large difference in the pension amount for several reasons. One of them is that women go more often in the waiting, and then often longer, work part-time. Therefore, we ask that the parenting times will be better taken into account, and four years per child pension constitutive and pension increase will be credited. We also call for the introduction of automatic pension splitting, with an Opt-out possibility. Here are to be divided after the birth of a child, the pension insurance contributions antragslos on both parents parts.

The Vienna show also that the Expansion of the professional care of the victims of violence, and more educational work against hate on the net, particularly in Vienna, is necessary. „It was a long necessary step of the red-green city government, our call for a fifth wife the house. Further steps to protect women and children from violence, must follow,“ the ÖVP-wife spokeswoman Sabine Black.

„It is important for us to strengthen the economic independence of women in Vienna, because every woman should be able to live in Vienna. We are of the Conviction that these ideas and claims are an important step in the right direction,“ said Veronika Mickel and Sabine Black finally.

Vienna ÖVP women
Elena Ott, BA, MA
Country managing Director
+43 1 51543-236
elena.ott@wien.oevp.at