General information
Certain preconditions need to be met for being admitted to an employment relationship in municipalities, municipal associations and statutory cities.
Requirements
The statutory preconditions must be met for being admitted as contract employee or public official.
Deadlines
No information available.
Completion period
No information available.
Competent authority
Municipalities, municipal associations and statutory cities.
Procedure
No information available.
Authentication and signature
No information available.
Required documents
- Proof of nationality
- Birth certificate
- Other certificates.
Art und Format der Nachweise
In the form prescribed in the announcement by the municipality or the municipal association pursuant to Sections 13, 41 and 42 of the Allgemeines Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz 1991 [General Administrative Procedure Act of 1991] and Sections 85 (3), 86b of the Bundesabgabenordnung [Austrian Fiscal Code].
Costs and fees
No information available.
Further information
Only persons fulfilling the preconditions set out below can generally be considered for admission as contract employee or public official:
- Austrian citizenship or in case of deployments that are not reserved to Austrian citizens, also the citizenship of any country to whom Austria must grant the same rights for admission to professions as those granted to Austrian citizens under the European integration;
- a minimum age of 17 years applies to contract employees;
- full legal capacity (contract employees of minor age might, however, be admitted with the consent of their legal representative);
- personal fitness, in particular fitness in terms of health, and technical suitability for the post for which they are admitted (including mastering the German language, orally and in writing; impeccable background and the like).
Deviations from these preconditions can be made only in justified exceptional cases.
Means of redress or appeal
No information available.
Legal bases
For laws and regulations, please refer to the Rechtsinformationssystem [Legal Information System] (RIS)
- Upper Austrian Gemeindebedienstetengesetz 2001 [Upper Austrian Municipal Employees Act] .
- Oö. Gemeinde-Dienstrechts- und Gehaltsgesetz 2002 [Upper Austrian Municipal Employment Right and Remuneration Act] .
- Oö. Statutargemeinden-Bedienstetengesetz 2002 [Upper Austrian Act on Statutory Municipalities Employees] .
Assistance and problem-solving services
EAP - Point of Single Contact Upper Austria
eap@ooe.gv.at
Link to form
No form required.
Information on data protection
Further information
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Last update: 22.03.2021
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