Public Employment Service Austria (AMS)

• About AMS
• Working, Recruiting & Studying
• Unemployment insurance
• Recruiting & placement services with EURES
• Migration Affairs
  • Basic principles
    • The upper limit model
  • Entry, residence, settlement, employment papers
  • Access authorizations
• Statistics

Basic principles

Service for Jobseekers

Who is concerned?

In the employment of foreign nationals, the Austrian labour market law distinguishes between:

• People who are not covered by the Foreign Labour Act (Ausländerbeschäftigungsgesetz – AuslBG), e.g.:
  – Recognised convention refugees (not just asylum seekers)
  – Foreign nationals in diplomatic or consular service and their foreign employees
  – Teaching and research staff at universities and scientific institutions
  – EEA and EU citizens with the exception of citizens of the new member states Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary (new EU citizens)
  – Swiss citizens (since June 1, 2004)
  – Foreign spouses and children of Austrian and EU or EEA citizens with a residence permit
  
  
• People whose access to the Austrian labour market is covered by the Foreign Labour Act (AuslBG), i.e.:
  
  Foreign nationals who do not fit into the above categories and who want to take on a job in Austria. A foreign national is a person who does not have Austrian nationality. Employment is defined as being in an employment relationship, in an employee-type relationship or in training.

 

Service for enterprises

Foreign nationals
The legal basis for the admission of foreign workers to the Austrian labour market is the Foreign Labour Act (Ausländerbeschäftigungsgesetz – AuslBG) which is executed by the Public Employment Service.

This regulatory instrument has the aim of ensuring a balanced relationship between supply and demand on the Austrian labour market.
On these pages you can find basic information on the employment of foreign nationals.