Employment Market To Open On 1 May 2011

Facts

Transnational provisions currently allowing Austria to protect its employment market from nationals of countries which joined the EU in 2004 will partly expire at the end of April 2011.

As of 1 May 2011, the Austrian Act on the Employment of Foreign Nationals
(Ausländerbeschäftigungsgesetz-AuslBG) will no longer apply to citizens of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. For Bulgaria and Romania further exceptions apply until 2013.

Due to the opening of the employment market, Austria intends to implement the "Lohn- und Sozialdumping Bekämfpungsgesetz – LSDB-G", which regulates measures to ensure minimum standards of terms and conditions of employment. In particular, working below the applicable minimum wage shall be prevented.