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At the request of the SPÖ, the National Council met on Monday for a special session on the issue of the labor market crisis. The SPÖ accuses Chancellor Kurz of inaction.
AUSTRIA. The situation in the labor market is becoming more and more acute, the federal government is watching or not, accused on Monday the president of the SPÖ club, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, in the government bank. At the beginning of his speech at the National Council, Rendi-Wagner listed numerous companies where people were affected by job cuts: for example, 100 employees at Magna, 1600 people at Swarovski in Tyrol, 360 employees at ATP in Styria or 550 people in Voest Alpine. who are threatened with dismissal. It is no longer just about individual cases, Rendi-Wagner stressed. Almost 40,000 young people are without work, or 1,300 buses, portrayed the leader of the SPÖ. “We should not be indifferent to these people. We cannot afford to let these people down and drop them, ”Rendi-Wagner said. The government is turning the unemployed into “handouts” with a one-time payment, underlined the SPÖ leader in the direction of the Chancellor and called for a permanent increase in unemployment benefits.
Briefly refers to measurements
Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) referred to the measures taken by the government. Now it’s about keeping the number of infections as low as possible: “It’s important to understand that there is no ‘economy or health’,” Kurz said. In total, a package of 50,000 million euros has been drawn up for the economy, so far approximately half of the money has been requested. The Chancellor emphasized that 25 billion will be available for the subsequent course of the crisis. Kurz put special emphasis on the possibility of working part-time: “It has proven to be the most precise element to prevent unemployment.”
Now it is important to keep the number of infections low. The more controlled the pandemic is, the more people would consume, “the better tourism and gastronomy will go.” It can be assumed that unemployment figures will continue to rise in the fall. However, there are still vacancies, emphasized In short, in nursing, for example. It was about retraining people as quickly as possible and placing them in these industries, the Chancellor said. During the summer, a labor foundation had been created that would provide training to the unemployed. The labor market service was increased in terms of staffing and a youth employment task force was started, “which has already placed 22,000 young people,” Kurz said. .
Kurz rejected the accusation that the government was abandoning people affected by unemployment and short hours. The Chancellor was moved when he recounted an anecdote from his youth that his father lost his job at age 50 after working for the same company for 30 years. For Kurz it was a formative experience.
Criticisms of FPÖ and NEOS
FPÖ club president Herbert Kickl accused the Federal Chancellor: “They lose millions when a few asylum seekers set fire to their camps in Greece. That is a unique disappointment of the Austrian population.” The latest stillbirth from the government crisis management is Corona – Stoplight, then Kickl.
Neos club president Beate Meinl-Reisinger explained in her speech that Corona was a stress test for the federal government leadership, “and you failed. Create predictability,” Meinl-Reisinger demanded.
Criticisms of the Covid Measures Law
