Union welcomes jobs initiative but lays down conditions

Austria

The GDG public service union has welcome an initiative from the Austrian employment service to subsidise jobs in local government in response to rising unemployment but said that many questions need to be resolved first. The union stressed that the scheme should be voluntary and should not be used as a way of undermining pay in the sector. Above all the union said that it should be involved in negotiations over the scheme.
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