Austria - 2011
Is the State or are state representatives reported to engage in discriminatory acts or practices by independent authoritative sources?
- Code:
- RED11
- Key Area:
- Anti-discrimination Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Discrimination
| Short Answer |
The Austrian Ombdusman Office has repeatedly criticised discriminatory treatment of third country nationals' families in granting familiy allowances. |
| Qualitative Info |
The Austrian Ombdusman Office has repeatedly criticised discriminatory treatment of non Austrian nationals' families in granting familiy allowances. In its recent report on 2010 the Ombudsman office points at the fact that the competent authority has failed to change its practice of limiting periods of family allowances for foreigners without any legitimate justification, which had been qualified as discriminatory repeatedly by the Ombudsman Office. Critics also include barrier to foreign students in obtaining failiy allowances and non-acknowledgements of working periods in other countries for receiving unemployment insurance benefits. |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants |
| Type (R/D) | |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Health and social protection |
| External Url | http://volksanwaltschaft.gv.at/downloads/4oj3c/Parlamentsbericht%202010.pdf |
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