2024-01-21 23:45:25
Loacker: “What is Katzian waiting for? If he is actually willing to talk regarding reducing non-wage labor costs, he should negotiate regarding it.”
Vienna (OTS) – “If ÖGB President Katzian is actually ‘ready to talk’ regarding reducing non-wage labor costs – what is he waiting for, then why isn’t he actively looking for a conversation with his social partners?” asks NEOS-Wirtschafts- und Social spokesman Gerald Loacker following today’s ORFPress conference. “Employees need to be sustainably relieved NOW, they need more net from gross NOW at the end of the month. And reducing non-employee-related wage costs would create the scope for this.”
If the union waits inactively, it would only help the ÖVP officials in the Chamber of Commerce who are making themselves comfortable with this money, as well as the state governors who are spending housing subsidies in their spending budgets instead of investing them in housing, says Loacker. “There are numerous points that can be addressed without the employees even feeling it. Only two thirds of the additional wage costs are insurance benefits that directly benefit the employees. When it comes to the remaining third, the non-employee-related wage costs, the question arises as to why they are financed through wages and there is no broader financing from the general public. And some things, like the Chamber of Commerce levy 2, can be eliminated without replacement because it simply has nothing to do with employees.”
The question of why unemployment insurance in Austria is more than twice as expensive as in Germany has also not been clarified. And why accident insurance – also a paradise for ÖVP officials – costs more than twice as much for employees in the economy as for the public sector cannot be objectively justified. “The non-wage labor costs are a complex collection of many small contributions, all of which need to be examined in detail because layers of fat have built up over the decades,” says Loacker and demands a close look at each individual partial amount.
Scope for 200 euros more net per month
A reduction in non-wage labor costs by a third would mean that a company would have around 300 euros in financial flexibility for all employees with a gross salary of 3,000 euros, Loacker calculates: “The employer can therefore increase the gross wage from 3,000 to 3,300 euros – and he will do this especially in times of massive staff shortage – the net wage would increase from 2150 to 2320 euros. The employees would have almost 200 euros more in their pockets every month without a single benefit having to be reduced.”
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