Sexual criminals not allowed to work as teacher in Vorarlberg

Austrias most western province Vorarlberg don’t want to have sexual criminals as teachers. 120 persons who start to work as a teacher in Vorarberg this year were checked if they have a previous conviction in relation to sexual crimes.

A sexual offender database should guarantee the veracity of all results. A change in the law was the basis of the possibility to do that. It was an idea of the provincial government. Sexual criminals should not be in contact with children.

The access to the sexual offender database is strictly limited. Only public institutions can request a certain search. Private

Greens in Viennas city government?

Viennas Socialdemocrats have to search for a coaltion partner after the massive loss of votes in the last election. Now it seems if the Green party will be the new partner. Viennas Socialdemocrat mayor Michael Häupl has officially started coalition negotiations with the Green party.

Political observers comment the new situation in Vienna as “no surprise”. The Peoples party is too shattered to be a stable coalition partner, and the Freedom party has to little similarities in the political views for a cooperation with the Socialdemocrats. Newspapers report that Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache is not happy about it.

Every second child in Upper Austria has speech defect

Every second child between four and six years in Upper Austria has a problem with the right way of speaking.

A typical pointer of a speech defect is the word “Schule”, which means “school” in English language. A child with a speech defect says “Sule” instead of “Schule (English accent: soole=false/shoole=correct)”. Experts complain that most of the parents does not care about the speech defects of their children. There are good therapies against such a development, but usually parents think the problem is going to solve itself after some time. Money can’t be the problem. A therapy would be paid

Childcare law in Austria

The new childcare law in Austria brings shorter opening hours in kindergartens, after school care centres and toddler groups, as well as a lower quality in the pedagogic service and more pressure on parents, claim experts.

If the situation should be improved, it’s necessary that the communities put more money into the financing. Experts also demand a decrease of the minimum number of children to receive the sponsorship from the provincial government. At the moment the minimum number in a toddler group is 6. A decrease down to 4 is demanded. There should be also a basic sponsorship for all

Interest-free credit for students in Austria?

Students and headmasters are upset. The conditions in Austrias universities are unbearable. Now a clear decision about the financing is claimed. If there is a studying for free, the government has to grab much deeper in the pocket as before.

Another solution would be an interest-free credit for students according to the model in Australia. Students repay the credit when their earnings are appropriate high. But a solution must be found to improve the situation of Austrias universities permanently.

It’s doubtful that the government will put more money into the universities. A so called “savings package of cruelty” is on its

Province of Burgenland has the most honest debtors

A new study of an Austrian encashment service revealed the fact that Austrias most honest debtors are living in Austrias most eastern province Burgenland. People from Burgenland pay their debts in almost all cases on time.

Old debtors are more honest than young debtors, was another interesting fact in that study. Old woman from Burgenland (above 61 years) are the most honest debtors of all. Burgenland is an exception. Usually the Eastern part of Austria is not so motivated to pay debts. People from Vienna and Lower Austria are one of Austrias worst debtors. Vorarlberg, Tirol and Salzburg are behind Burgenland

Election in Vienna 2010

The only winner was HC Straches Freedom party. The Freedom party was able to win more than 12 percent and become Viennas strongest force behind the Socialdemocrats. All other parties lost votes: Socialdemocrats, Peoples party, Green party. For the Peoples party it was a huge disaster. Only 13,23 percent means an historical trough. The prime candidate of the Peoples party, Christine Marek, pulled a wry face after the first computer prediction. She has expected a much better result.

The Socialdemocrats lost their absolute majority and have to search for a coalition partner now. Many experts believe it will be the

Electoral fraud in Austria?

Austrias public prosecution department against bribery and corruption is an electoral fraud with huge dimension on the scent. Voting cards of persons were found which concerned voters never had requested.

Austrias magazine “News” reports that the dimensions of the electoral fraud in the state election of the federal state Burgenland are much bigger as feared. The final result of the election was confirmed on the 30th May and can’t be changed anymore.

Affected politicans act quite surprised about the latest uncoverings. One politican of the Peoples party said that “he can’t believe that.” Now extensive determinations were initiated. The obviously

Strache is not allowed to say “Red Nazis”

Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache is not allowed to call the Viennese Socialdemocrats “Red Nazis”. The commercial court of Vienna has declared an interim injunction in that case. Strache has also accept the injunction that he is not allowed anymore to spread the rumour the Socialdemocrats would act as violent stone-throwing demonstrators against dissidents. “The court has noticed that the Socialdemocrats have a pristine white and clean slate”, explained a member of Viennas Socialdemocrats.

The Freedom party has not received the interim injunction yet. Freedom parties secretary Hans Jörg Jenewein said that an interim injunction is not an adjudgment.

Every tenth Austrian employee can’t survive with salary

Every tenth Austrian employee is not able to survive with the salary. 350.000 persons are affected. The numbers are increasing. 10 years ago only 256.000 were affected.

In consequence of the financial crisis more and more Austrians, especially women, have to accept a precarious employment. Typical fields of such jobs are call center agents or delivery man for advertising material. But the creativity has no limit. Some entrepreneurs try to hire out their hair salon. They have no employees anymore. All hairdressers are working on a single person company basis.

The trade union demands a minimum wage of 1.300 Euro