Tag: diplomats

Diplomats ignore most traffic fines

Post date February 17, 2011

Diplomats failed to pay more than 2,000 traffic fines across Austria last year, it has emerged.A parliamentary enquiry by Freedom Party (FPÖ) MP Martin Graf forced the office of Peoples Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger to reveal that two thirds of the 2,400 fines for various breaches of traffic rules by diplomats went unpaid […]

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Diplomats off sick most often, study shows

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Post date June 2, 2010

United Nation (UN) officials and diplomats working in Austria have the highest number of sick leave days, it has been revealed.Figures presented by Austrian health insurance officials today (Weds) show that officials employed at the UNs Vienna headquarters and at the Vienna-based Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) took an average 39.3 off days […]

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