Austria - Collective agreement for museum employees - April 30, 2021

After years of unsuccessful demands, a joint collective agreement was reached for the 2,600 federal museum employees. The long-standing initiative by the works councils and the public service union (GOD), placing pressure on the state, finally bore fruit. A convincing argument was that the country with a collective bargaining coverage of 98% and around 450 annually renegotiated collective agreements should also allow its most important museums to have a collective agreement.

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