The Austrian textiles industry is hoping for better times ahead after registering a dramatic decline in turnover last year.Official figures presented today (Fri) show the industry was confronted with a 20 per cent year on year drop in turnover in 2009 to 2.05 billion Euros. Statistics also show that the number of staff employed in […]
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Peoples Party (ÖVP) Economy Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner will meet with mineral oil industry bosses and petrol station chiefs to discuss soaring fuel prices.More and more Austrian drivers are fuming as petrol stations upped prices shortly before the Easter and the Whitsun weekend holiday breaks.A vast majority of 90 per cent of Austrians even think firms […]
HTI looks back on difficult 2009
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Upper Austrian car industry supplier HTI hopes for positive figures this year after a decline in turnover in 2009.Company boss Peter Glatzmeier said today (Fri): “The past year was a difficult year in which restructuring measures dominated our activities.”Glatzmeier added he hoped for positive business results in 2010.Turnover of the firm based in St. […]
Paper industry workers get a raise
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Austria’s paper industry workers are to get a pay rise.The social partners have agreed a new contract for paper processing industry workers, the umbrella association of paper industry firms said today (Fri).The contract, retroactive to 1 March, will give workers currently on the minimum wage a 1.25 per cent salary increase and others a 1.15 […]
Six apprentices have been working at a hotel on Wörther Lake in Carinthia without heating or warm water in their rooms, according to the provincial Labour Chamber (AK).AK added that none of them had received any training as receptionists, cooks or waiters and a 16-year-old female apprentice had to prepare washing water in a water […]
Recession slashes power consumption
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By William GreenPower consumption plunged this year amid an industry downturn because of the recession, the Association of Austrian Electricity Enterprises (VEÖ) said today (Tues).VEÖ said the fall reached its lowest point in April, when consumption was down by 10.3 per cent year on year.Declines of 6.1 per cent and 7.1 per cent occurred year […]