The Minister of Social Affairs and Employment published the Employment Relations Assessment and Legal Presumption Act. The proposal should clarify the distinction between employees and the self-employed. We have listed the most important changes.

Mere suspicion of a person opening bank accounts in other countries or restricting travel as a buffer to payments outstanding to the Bank cannot be the sole basis for issuing Look Out Circular. 

Petra Walkner outlines the different models in place throughout Austria for individual regulations of the grey land traffic.

The bill contributes to restoring the balance between working with the self-employed and as self-employed on the one hand, and working with and as an employee(s) on the other.

We congratulate our colleagues at WLN member firm Labré advocaten on this much-deserved recognition.

In a decision dated 25.05.2023 (5 Ob 56/23f), the Supreme Court again had to deal with the objection of the loss of the basis of the contract.