AK won the 2018 28.5 million euros from the insolvency remuneration Fund, and warns of worsening for those Affected by bankruptcies

Linz (OTS) – 304 farms with a total of almost 3,000 employees, skidded in the year 2018 in upper Austria in the bankruptcy. The AK-bankruptcy-law protection Team helped the affected employees to a total of 28.5 million euros from the insolvency remuneration Fund (IEF). Now some of the bad positions for Employees: As the only representative of the employee-was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the insolvency remuneration Fund unexpectedly. And one of the most successful and the most efficient offices of the Fund is to be closed. AK President Kalliauer warns of the destruction of a functioning system.

The news of the company broke hitting the workforce, often unexpected, but always hard. 2.717 people had experienced this in the year 2018 in upper Austria. Strong support and accompaniment from the very first lesson you can get from the Team at the AK-bankruptcy-law protection. The AK-experts are usually a few days after the opening of Insolvency proceedings directly in the company and hold company meetings for the employees. The representation by the AK includes the identification and processing of payroll data, the application of the open wage – and salary claims with the court and request a bankruptcy fee at the insolvency remuneration Fund Service GmbH (IEF). AK-President Dr. Johann Kalliauer: „In three-quarters of the cases the people get their money within one month, often after only two weeks.“ Overall, the AK upper Austria for all of an insolvency, the affected employee has backed up in the previous year, 28.5 million Euro from the compensation Fund.

2018, in upper Austria, 304 farms with at least one or a busy insolvent. The largest bankruptcies of the company Hitzinger GmbH, with its 262 employees, the company „LIMAN“ Reinigungs – und Environment GmbH, with 186 employees the company Fill Metallbau GmbH with 178 employees and Steyr Motors GmbH with 162 employees. The AK-bankruptcy-law protection Team supported throughout the year 2018, 4.175 employees: 2.717 from bankruptcy by the year 2018 plus 1.458 Affected, whose employer had been registered in the year 2017, insolvency and the proceedings were not yet complete.

The assistance in the event of a bankruptcy by the AK is one of those services, for which the work chamber has no statutory mandate that they offer their members but, as an additional service. Not only do the Numbers speak for themselves – the personal feedback from the Affected regularly show how much they appreciate the support of the AK-experts in the case of a corporate bankruptcy. This well-functioning System is now in danger, because some are Bad: the only employee was dismissed representatives on the Supervisory Board of the IEF-Service GmbH at the end of August 2018, all of a sudden. As a result, the representation of workers ‚ interests, has been pushed back further and further. President Kalliauer: „We expect that it will not come in times of crisis, to an increase in the employer contributions to the insolvency remuneration Fund, but also to a reduction of the claims of the employees.“

And it’s a further measure, to the detriment of the upper Austrian workers/threatened: The office Ried the IEF-Service GmbH, is to be relocated to Linz, although it is located in the top of the field in terms of speed of execution of applications, and although it stacks up for customer satisfaction in Austria is the best. This would result in the insolvency of their employer, an affected employee in the case of a party questioning a lot of longer routes to take and thus longer your money will have to wait. AK President Kalliauer: „It is more Central locations, again at the expense of the workers. It is totally incomprehensible why a System is destroyed, which has proven to be extremely successful.“

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Ulrike Mayr, MSc
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