{"id":5176,"date":"2021-01-29T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T11:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2021-02-18T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T09:54:27","slug":"homeoffice-massnahmenpaket-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/homeoffice-massnahmenpaket-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office Meassures 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 27, 2021, the Ministerial Council and the social partners agreed on the home office measures and especially the following points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home office remains <strong>voluntary<\/strong>, but any agreement on this must be made in <strong>written form<\/strong>. The agreement may be terminated by either party for good cause by giving one month&#8217;s notice. In companies where a works council has been installed, home office can be regulated within the framework of an <strong>optional works council agreement<\/strong> pursuant to Section 97 of the Labour Constitution Act (<em>ArbVG<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All provisions of the <strong>Austrian Working Time Act<\/strong> (<em>Arbeitszeitgesetz<\/em>), the <strong>Austrian Rest Act<\/strong> (<em>Arbeitsruhegesetz<\/em>) and the <strong>Austrian Employee Liability Act<\/strong> (<em>Dienstnehmerhaftpflichtgesetz<\/em>) also apply to home office work. In addition, the Austrian Employee Liability Act clarifies that damage caused by household members (or pets) to work equipment provided is considered to be <strong>made by the employee (responsibility)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current Corona regulation on accident insurance for home office remains and becomes permanent law. Employees are <strong>continuously insured for accidents<\/strong> in the home office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In general, <strong>employers<\/strong> must provide the digital <strong>work equipment<\/strong> (incl. connection to internet and data) required for work in the home office. However, the use of employees&#8217; own work equipment can be <strong>agreed<\/strong>. In this case, <strong>appropriate (flat-rate) compensation<\/strong> must be paid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A total of EUR 600 per year can be tax-reductible for home-based work. <strong>Employer<\/strong> payments e.g. for laptops or mobile devices are <strong>tax-free<\/strong> up to <strong>EUR 300<\/strong> per year. <strong>Employees<\/strong> will also be able to deduct other expenses of up to <strong>EUR 300<\/strong> as <strong>income-related expenses<\/strong>. The regulations will be limited until the end of 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 27, 2021, the Ministerial Council and the social partners agreed on the home office measures and especially the following points: Home office remains voluntary, but any agreement on this must be made in written form. The agreement may be terminated by either party for good cause by giving one month&#8217;s notice. In companies&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/homeoffice-massnahmenpaket-2021\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-news-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greindlkoeck.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}