Employers must respond quickly when defending employees against mobbing attacks and harassment by their peers, a recent Supreme Court decision has confirmed. The court made clear that although an employer…

A recent judgment of the Supreme Court made clear that future damage of an unknown amount arising from an event that occurred before the opening of insolvency proceedings may be…

Although Austria has had a statutory framework in place since 1988 regulating the relationship between temporary workers, their employers and the entity to which they are assigned, the legislature was…

A new real estate income tax was recently introduced in Austria. When land encumbered by liens is now sold in the course of insolvencies, the question arises as to whether…

Signed into law in 1990, the Company Pension Act and the Pension Fund Act sought to provide a sound legal basis for the pension system's so-called 'second pillar' (the other…

Austrian law requires companies to be members of the Chamber of Commerce. In general, the applicability of a collective bargaining agreement is determined through mandatory membership of the relevant division…

Das mit 1. Dezember 2012 in Kraft tretende neue Energieausweis-Vorlagegesetz wird verschärfte Rahmenbedingungen mit sich bringen. Künftig drohen bereits Verwaltungsstrafen, wenn in Immobilienangeboten kein Heizwärmebedarf angeführt wird. Der Standard vom…

In 2009 the Austrian legislature abolished free legal aid for legal entities, and thus also for insolvency estates without assets, although free legal aid had previously been granted only under…

Claudia Csáky, ecolex Nr. 3, 2012

In two recent decisions the Supreme Court clarified employer liability for harassment perpetrated by employees.  ILO Newsletter, March 14, 2012 JW_Supreme_Court_rules_on_sexual_harassment_and_vicarious_liability.pdf 53 KB