📋 Tender Overview
The National Council will hold a special session on Monday September 14th. The parliamentary groups agreed on this today in a special presidency. The reason for this is a corresponding request by the SP. SP leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner and her group colleagues want to advise on the difficult situation on the labor market as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Around a million people are unemployed or on short-time work Austria now needs protection from a second wave of layoffs according to the request. An urgent request to Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz or an urgent request is expected.The meeting will open at 12 noon the debate on the urgent question or the urgent motion to Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will start at 3 p.m.The amendment to the COVID-19 Measures Act requested by the coalition parties is also on the agenda . It is to be placed on the agenda due to a deadline set before the summer. The amendment is to be referred back to the health committee as the necessary legal basis in this regard is to be created together with the collective law amendment to the epidemic law tuberculosis law and COVID-19 measures law on the Corona traffic light announced by the government.In addition it is planned to resolve first readings for the referendums received in parliament Implement asylum law in accordance with Europe Smoke - NO EURATOM - Austrias exit and for the climate popular initiative. These are to be carried out in the National Council plenum in September or October as the start of parliamentary deliberations. With regard to the parliamentary treatment of the amendment to the collective law announced by the government on the epidemic law the tuberculosis law and the COVID-19 measures law the intention is to find a consensual procedure in the course of tomorrow.
