For better unemployment insurance
The Austrian Cultural Council has formulated concrete proposals for improving unemployment insurance in order to come closer to the basic idea of comprehensive social security for as many people working in the arts, culture and media as possible.
The pay-in system works with two exceptions, writes the Austrian Cultural Council: Firstly, the abolition of the daily minimum income threshold in 2017 has created a hole in the social security system in fields of work for which short-term employment is typical.
Daily employment up to the monthly low income limit is no longer considered full-time employment (even if the total monthly salary exceeds this limit) - unemployment insurance is no longer possible with such employment as things stand at present.
Secondly, unemployment insurance is de facto impossible for anyone who is not employed, as the current model of voluntary unemployment insurance for the self-employed is completely dysfunctional.
Original article:
https://kulturrat.at/agenda/ams/20190814
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