📋 Tender Overview
A directive proposal is intended to create a framework for appropriate minimum wages and minimum wage protection for workers at EU level. This can be ensured either with statutory or collectively agreed minimum wages. Austria supports this goal. However it is important to maintain the distribution of competences subsidiarity and proportionality as well as to safeguard the collective agreement system which works well in Austria and the autonomy of the social partnership.The working conditions of people who do platform work i.e. who provide services mediated via online platforms are to be improved with another proposed directive. According to the Labor Ministers report the proposal is currently being examined in detail. It is important both to improve the working conditions of platform employees and to enable the growth of digital work platforms.Austria is critical of an initiative to develop a uniform electronic form for reporting posted workers. It is to be expected that such a form would differ significantly from the e-forms established in Austria. In addition all data contained in the Austrian reporting forms are required in order to be able to monitor the regulations.
