Employment with Employment Contract (unselbständige Beschäftigung)

• The prerequisite for employment is a working permit, the employer has to apply for it at the employment office (Arbeitsmarktservice/AMS) before the employee takes up work. Students at Austrian universities, universities of applied sciences and accredited private universities get working permits under easier conditions.
  
  
• Students get a work permit for employment for
  
  - 10 hours per week and                                                                       - 20 hours per week after they have absolved the 1st stage of a diploma programme or a bachelor degree programme.
  
  
• Special cases, e.g. unpaid trainees (Volontäre) or vocational internships (Berufspraktika). Unpaid trainees are persons who are employed for up to three months per calendar year exclusively for the purpose of acquiring practical knowledge and skills without commitment to work and without any right to remuneration. A vocational internship is an employment (practical training) which is required by the study plan of an Austrian educational institution with public status. In both cases no work permit is required but the employer has to notify the employment office (Arbeitsmarktservice) and the tax authorities at least 2 weeks before the beginning of the employment.