Regulation of Working Hours

Brief description

  • Labour law-related fundamentals based on the Working Hours Act; Act on Work Resting; working time regulations in KA-AZG, BäckAG, KJBG,TAG, MSchG and VKG
  • Working hours in collective agreements, working hours in company agreements
  • Scope and location of working hours, part-time and special part-time models (e.g. parental part-time, part-time for care responsibilities, part-time for educational purposes); extra work and overtime; supplements and lump payments, compensatory time off; 4-day-week; holidays; catching up on the workload of “window days” (Fenstertage)
  • Reference periods; trust-based working hours, time recordings; flexitime (in the company agreemnent and in the individual contract; obligatory, possible and illegitimate contents; legal consequences, demand-based adaptation)

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Köck, Arbeitszeit Neu: Die Arbeitszeitnovelle 2018, Manz, Wien 2018;
Niederfriniger, Rechtsprobleme der Gleitzeitarbeit, Manz, Wien 2019; Risak/Jöst/David/Patka, Praxishandbuch Gleitzeit, Facultas, aktuelle Auflage.
Tomandl, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Arbeitszeitgestaltung, Manz, Wien 2019

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lecture, group work, project work, discussion, case analysis, legal interpretation, legal research, legal writing

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment and final written exam

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Selected Topics of Applied Labour Law I

Infos

Degree programme

Digital HR & angewandtes Arbeitsrecht

Cycle

Master

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Part-Time

Academic year

2023

Semester

3 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of the course, students can

  • arrange the working hours in companies of the corporate sector in a flexible way and in conformity with the law

Course code

1705-21-01-BB-DE-25