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All PostsAccidents During Return Home Not Covered by Insurance
Labour LawThe Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter OGH) has delivered a decision about when insurance coverage begins after leaving one’s place of work. Plaintiff sought recognition of the accident as an occupational injury The plaintiff i...
OGH on the Recovery of Severance Pay
Civil LawIn the interest of legal certainty, Section 1486 of the Austrian Civil Code (Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, hereinafter ABGB) reduces the general 30-year limitation period to three years for certain claims, in particular those arising from dail...
Austrian Supreme Court: ‘Training’ Was an Employment Relationship
Civil LawThe Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter OGH) has defined an unpaid traineeship as an employment relationship and awarded the plaintiff appropriate remuneration. In doing so, the OGH clarified the criteria for distinguishing trai...
OGH: "Recruitment costs" for retention of employees via a third-party temporary employment agency are inadmissible
The Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, OGH) dealt with the permissibility of a clause providing for the replacement of "recruitment costs" in a contract for the leasing of temporary workers. The plaintiff leased employees to the defendant....
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