Educational leave: the end of an era and the future of further training!
Educational leave: the end of an era and the future of further training!
The new government in Austria quickly implemented its agenda and decided on Friday in the National Council to abolish educational leave. This program, which allowed many employees a break for further training, officially expire at the end of March 2025. However, if you already have an approval from the labor market service (AMS), you can benefit: these people can end their educational leave, and the financial support also remain after April 1. According to the new Minister of Economics Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer (ÖVP), the educational leave causes unnecessary costs that have almost tripled in recent years to around 650 million euros in 2024, which makes it difficult to hire specialists in business, as Exxpress.at reported.
In addition, a succession planning for educational leave provided for revision was announced in the National Council, which is associated with a collaboration between social partners. However, a concrete result is only expected for early 2026. Critics, such as the social spokesman for the Greens, Markus Koza, express fears that the abolition "robs perspectives" and further increases unemployment. These measures to reduce expenses are in the context of a general budget consolidation. The government coordinator Alexander Pröll (ÖVP) confirmed that this is part of more extensive financial reforms, which also includes the introduction of a bank tax and a rental price stop, Nachrichten. also reported.The opposites in the political landscape are clear, while the recently decided abolition of the educational leave of education by parts of the government is considered necessary to create financial scope, critics see this as a threat to further training opportunities for workers. In the future, targeted training measures will be promoted in the future with a sophisticated successor model in order to offer employees and companies the desired added value.
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