The discussion about the working hours – whether full-time, part-time, 41-hour week, 32-hour week or 4-day week – it doesn’t stop. Just a few days ago, Vorarlberg’s state governor made a plea Markus Wallner for a tax-free 1,000 euros Full time bonus and tax-free overtime.
The idea is not new, it comes from the “Austria plan” the ÖVP and should more Getting people to come from Part– on Full time switch. However, this is exactly what economic and labor market experts are questioning.
“I find it difficult to imagine someone who is currently working part-time switching to full-time,” says Katharina Ganglbehavioral economist at IHS im O1-Journal interview. The reason for part-time work is often just that not the money, but the lack of care options for children.
Gangl sees the key more Part-time therefore in the expansion of the Childcare options. Wifo labor market expert Helmut Mahringer misses an “overall strategy” and keeps the idea, as he also does Ö1-Journal says for expensive. 2.7 million people are currently employed and working full-time. “If you were to pay them a bonus of 1,000 euros annually, then we would get 2.7 billion euros annually.”
The ÖVP finance minister considers it a “sensible measure”. Magnus Brunner the “1,000 euro bonus” – namely “to make performance more attractive”. This also includes, as Brunner is quoted in a broadcast, the “further expansion of childcare”. The means for this are through the Financial equalization available. 550 million euros are available annually from the so-called future fund to expand elementary education and childcare. The expansion of childcare options is also included in the “Austria Plan”. That’s the goalto increase the rate for children under 3 years old to at least 38 percent or by 1 percentage point per year in each federal state by the end of the financial equalization period.
Also announced by the ÖVP in the “Austria Plan” is tax relief for overtime, “with the aim of making all overtime completely tax-free”. However, this can only be implemented by the next federal government, as Brunner emphasizes.
