A works council chief has caused a stir by calling for more vacation days for Austrians.Wolfgang Katzian, head of the labour union of private employees GPA-djp, said today (Tues) Austrians deserved an additional week off each year. The Social Democratic (SPÖ) member of the federal parliament argued such a move would mean a win-win situation […]
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Unemployment rate remains low
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Austria retained its reputation as Europes job sector model pupil.The country registered the lowest unemployment rate among all of the European Unions (EU) 27 member states last month, it was announced today (Thurs). The federal labour ministry of Social Democrat (SPÖ) Rudolf Hundstorfer said that 221,369 people living in Austria had no job in May. […]
More than one million Austrians would cycle to work if infrastructure improvements were made, a traffic research organisation has claimed.The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) announced today (Weds) around 250,000 people were already using their bicycles to get to the office. The group added that up to 1.3 million would do so if decision-makers would spend […]
GTI fanatics shipwrecked
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German GTI fans had a lucky escape after capsizing in a motorboat on a lake in Austria.The group of four men in the southern province of Carinthia to visit the annual Volkswagen (VW) Golf GTI meeting made it to the shore after their boat sank at Wörther Lake (Wörther See) yesterday evening (Tues).The […]
Austria has retained its reputation for being one of the most secure places on earth despite being knocked down two spots in the United Nations (UN) Global Peace Index (GPI) 2011.The UN announced yesterday (Thurs) it considered Austria as the sixth-safest country in the world.The organisation investigated 153 nations on all continents about factors such […]
Debreziner check dishes up mixed results
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Only three of 13 investigated Debreziner sausages were given the top rating by a consumer rights organisation.The Association for Consumer Information (VKI) checked the quality of Debreziner sausages offered by 13 snack stand chains and firms delivering to supermarkets. The VKI said today (Weds) that just three products were considered as faultless, while some of […]
A district in Lower Austria has been identified as the area with the highest likeliness of fatal car crashes.The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) announced today (Thurs) that 2.7 fatalities per 10,000 residents occurred in the district of Scheibbs. This rate makes the region the most dangerous individual traffic zone of the country ahead of Reutte […]
Common belief that the economic downturn is to blame for most bankruptcies has been debunked by an insolvency expert.The Creditors Protection Association of 1870 (KSV) announced today (Thurs) that only 19 per cent of all of last years 6,376 business bankruptcies had firm-external and crisis-related grounds.The organisation claimed 44 per cent of all of the […]
Vienna hotels introduce sharp price hike
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Hotels in Vienna are charging nearly 20 Euros more per night than resorts in Salzburg, a survey has revealed.Holiday information platform Trivago (www.trivago.co.uk/hotelprices) which constantly compares the prices for standard double rooms in Europes largest cities and most important vacation destinations announced today (Weds) that one night at a hotel in the Austrian […]
Tens of thousands of Vienna’s residents are cycling to work every day, according to a traffic research organisation.The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) announced today (Weds) that 34,000 of the citys overall 1.7 million residents use their bikes to get to their workplaces.Now the capitals coalition of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Green Party presented an […]