[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:work\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2011\u002Faustria-legal-backing-for-minimum-wages-in-collective-agreements-april-6-2011":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":8,"path":9,"content_type":10,"locale":11,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":12,"page_created_at":13,"published_at":12,"edit_url":14,"breadcrumbs":15,"seo":28,"body_blocks":36,"call_to_action":42,"categories":49,"labels":50,"owner":7,"authors":51,"related_pages":52,"related_sites":53,"in_subsite":54,"contact_page_url":55,"banner_message":56},18354,"austria-legal-backing-for-minimum-wages-in-collective-agreements-april-6-2011","Austria - Legal backing for minimum wages in collective agreements - April 6, 2011",null,"","\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2011\u002Faustria-legal-backing-for-minimum-wages-in-collective-agreements-april-6-2011","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T15:46:07.037046+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F18354\u002Fedit\u002F",[16,19,22,25,27],{"title":17,"slug":18},"World of Work","work",{"title":20,"slug":21},"Collective Bargaining Agreement","collective-bargaining-agreement",{"title":23,"slug":24},"Collective Bargaining Updates","updates",{"title":26,"slug":26},"2011",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":29,"canonical":30,"robots":31,"og_type":32,"twitter_card":33,"locale":11,"created_at":34,"last_modified_at":35},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2011\u002Faustria-legal-backing-for-minimum-wages-in-collective-agreements-april-6-2011\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-26T20:57:38.618647+01:00",[37],{"type":38,"data":39},"raw_html_block",{"content":40,"variant":41},"\u003Cp class=\"CM4\">By 1 May, new legislation comes into effect that will impose tougher sanctions on employers who fail to pay the minimum wage that has been negotiated in their sector. Restrictions on migration to Austria (and Germany) from the EU Member States in central and Eastern Europe end by then and the ÖGB trade union confederation argued for the new law on minimum wages to ensure that neither domestic nor foreign employers could exploit the opening of the labour market to avoid paying collectively agreed minimum wage rates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\">English: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.epsu.org\u002Fcob\u002F415\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\">German: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gpa-djp.at\u002Fservlet\u002FContentServer?pagename=GPA\u002FPage\u002FIndex&n=GPA_0.a&cid=1300445585153\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gpa-djp.at\u002Fservlet\u002FContentServer?pagename …  \u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"discreet\">\u003Cem>This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\">M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa>. You may find further information on the ETUI at \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>, and on the AIAS at \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F39\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fa>. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>","light",{"text":43,"link":44},"Contact us",{"title":43,"url":45,"description":43,"rel":46,"type":47,"id":48},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]