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Currently, 409,231 people are registered with the Public Employment Service (AMS), of which 357,184 are unemployed, 52,047 in training courses. “From the week before to this week we were able to get 14,000 employees again,” the minister said in Vienna on Tuesday. Compared to the peak of the crisis in mid-April, the number of unemployed has dropped by 180,000. At that time, around 588,000 people were unemployed and more than 1.3 million were registered for part-time jobs.
Almost 400,000 people with short hours
“We currently have 399,730 people in part-time jobs, which is below the 400,000 mark for the first time,” Aschbacher said. The number had “greatly decreased,” he noted. Compared to the previous week, there are currently 52,769 fewer part-time workers. “We are doing everything we can to make sure that companies can get back to normal operations,” Aschbacher said. 4.6 billion euros have already been disbursed for short-time jobs, which corresponds to a turnover rate of 97 percent.
The second phase of the fixed cost subsidy for companies that have lost sales as a result of the Corona crisis is where things are still happening. EU approval is still pending. “That failed due to the approval of the European Commission, I do not understand it,” lamented Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP). “I hope the Commission changes its mind soon.” Because it is clear that “we are in a global economic crisis.” The minister awaits the green light from Brussels soon: “I can only imagine the approval and I hope it will arrive as soon as possible.”
Both ÖVP ministers emphasized how essential a sufficient knowledge of German is to participate in the job market. “Integration courses show how important German and values courses are, and also the advancement of women,” Aschbacher said. Starting an apprenticeship or continuing training “will only be possible if the children can speak German, and the German classes are good for this and additional measures are needed,” added Blümel. In some Viennese secondary schools there are “classes with only ten percent where German is colloquial”.
(Those: APA)
