Trade Union: Austrian trainees are exhausted
by admin May 23rd, 2007 in Economy
The exhausting conditions of trainees in Austria rises evermore, is the result of a survey of the Austrian Trade Union.
The pressure in their apprenticeship places increases. The trainees resign medical attention, because they are afraid to be stamped as “psycho”.
In the most cases the exhausted teenagers do not receive support from their parents either. “Trainee years are no master years”, “you must go through that”, or “you’ll work it out somehow”, are the parents answers.
“The results are depressions and social isolation”, says Gerald Forcher, the youth secretary of the Austrian Trade Union.
Also the working hours are a big problem for the young people. No breaks, unsteady working hours and extra hours. Even though trainees under 18 years are not allowed to do extra hours by law, they are forced by their employers. In the federal state of Salzburg even 17% of the trainees have to do extra hours for free.