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Work & your own business
This is about work: starting or losing a job, getting money back from the tax office and starting your own business.
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Lost your jobLost your job? How to register with the AMS in time and apply for unemployment benefit.Start a new jobStarting a new job? How to check your contract, written terms and your insurance registration.Do your tax returnEmployed and paying wage tax? How to get back tax you overpaid and see when you have to file.Start a businessWant to work for yourself? How to register your trade and what comes next.
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Work & careers
- Move a business location
- Start an apprenticeship
- Pause or restart your business
- Close your business
- Get a foreign qualification recognised
- Find further education
- Marginal employment: sort out insurance
- Take care leave
- Take family hospice leave
- Accompany your child to rehab
- Get the e-card fee refunded
- Get an employment reference
- Check your final payslip
- Resign from your job
- Dismissed by your employer
- Ended during probation
- Dismissed without notice
- End a job by mutual agreement
- Career advice at the AMS
- Pay for a course with waff funding
- Advice on recognising your training
- Apply for an old-age pension
- Add missing pension periods
- Get your insurance record statement
- Open a second business location
- Student job: permit from the AMS
- Get a criminal record certificate
- Sick: report sick leave
- Working in Austria: Red-White-Red Card
- Get your first e-card
Starting a business
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