The Supreme Court recently clarified a conceptual question concerning age discrimination. The case was unique in that the plaintiff was the only contender for the job and the vacancy was…

Jakob Widner im Wirtschaftsblatt vom 14.3.2013

For a successful rescue to take place, the business premises must remain available for the continued operation of the company. Consequently, Section 12c of the Insolvency Code protects the debtor…

Employers must respond quickly when defending employees against mobbing attacks and harassment by their peers, a recent Supreme Court decision has confirmed. The court made clear that although an employer…

A recent judgment of the Supreme Court made clear that future damage of an unknown amount arising from an event that occurred before the opening of insolvency proceedings may be…

Although Austria has had a statutory framework in place since 1988 regulating the relationship between temporary workers, their employers and the entity to which they are assigned, the legislature was…

A new real estate income tax was recently introduced in Austria. When land encumbered by liens is now sold in the course of insolvencies, the question arises as to whether…

Signed into law in 1990, the Company Pension Act and the Pension Fund Act sought to provide a sound legal basis for the pension system's so-called 'second pillar' (the other…

Austrian law requires companies to be members of the Chamber of Commerce. In general, the applicability of a collective bargaining agreement is determined through mandatory membership of the relevant division…

Das mit 1. Dezember 2012 in Kraft tretende neue Energieausweis-Vorlagegesetz wird verschärfte Rahmenbedingungen mit sich bringen. Künftig drohen bereits Verwaltungsstrafen, wenn in Immobilienangeboten kein Heizwärmebedarf angeführt wird. Der Standard vom…