Opportunities for women: Burgenland fights poverty and inequality!

Opportunities for women: Burgenland fights poverty and inequality!

Burgenland, Österreich - In Burgenland, a drastic turnaround in terms of educational leave, a popular instrument for further training, which was mainly used by women. According to ORF Burgenland , 578 women and 77 men benefited from this regulation in the previous year, while the demand between 2020 and 2024 was almost three times as high. But now the federal government is planning to abolish educational leave in its previous form and is working on a new model. Helene Sengstbratl, state manager of the AMS Burgenland, said that the educational leave should be increasingly used for actual educational qualifications. The current use, which often led to the extension of the baby leave, is unsatisfactory.

The Auditors supports these reforms and recommends a revision of legal provisions in order to focus more on educational leave on relevant further training. A report shows that the previous requirements for training and further education were too low, which meant that little demanding courses were also used (