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We would like to familiarize all non-German speaking colleagues with the current legal situation in Austria. While we cannot offer immediate legal support, we want to raise awareness among the scientific staff about the potential implications of the changed legislation. We will give information about the official institutions already in place to represent employees’ interests at Austrian universities (“Arbeiterkammer”, “Betriebsrat”). We will also introduce local university initiatives taking action against precarious employment. Last but not least, another goal of the meeting is to learn about the perspective of the international researcher community on the present situation in Austria and include them into the ongoing organizing process.

Section 109 of the Austrian Universities Act is not without reason subject to particularly strong criticism (also from NUWiss). However, the problems of the University Act go far beyond this. In regular meetings with representatives of other organisations (in particular IG:Lektor*innen, the Elise Richter Network and the Gender Studies Association Austria), we have spent two …

NUWiss proposal for the reform of the University act (Universitätsgesetz) Read More »

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023Start: 2 p.m., end approx. 5.30 p.m.Meeting point: Sigmund-Freud-Park (opposite the main building of the University of Vienna), demo route: main building of the University of Vienna > Ministry of Science > Michaelerplatz > TU Vienna +++ The demo will take place in the context of a public “Betriebsversammlung” of the …

Demonstration in Vienna on March 23rd: Fair instead of precarious! Rethink University Read More »

Fixed-term contracts have become the norm for the scientific staff at Austrian universities during the past decades. Until the latest amendment to the Universities Act in 2021 („UG Novelle 2021“) legal restrictions on the maximum duration of employment on subsequent fixed-term contracts could be circumvented by e.g. changing to another institution for a certain period …

Information meeting on Austrian university employment law in English Read More »

In order to create a solid basis for future discussions with university management and the government, we have developed a survey for the “Mittelbau” at Austrian universities. One and a half years after the amendment to the Universities Act (UG) came into force, we want to find out what the working situation of the “Mittelbau” …

Survey: NUWiss asks scientists about their employment situation Read More »