NATIONAL LABOUR MARKET POLICIES
Basic Information Reports
1.3.2.Organisation
The AMS is comprised of one authority at federal level, nine at Land level, 95 at regional level, 13 branch offices and 50 career information centres.
The AMS has a dual structure at all levels, consisting of:
- partite committees with decision-making powers and powers of control; members are appointed on the recommendation of the representative bodies for employers and employees; the administrative council at federal level is a tripartite board (additionally including representatives from the BMAGS and the Federal Ministry of Finance);
- executive bodies (at federal level the executive board, at Land level the chief executive and his/her deputy, at regional level the director of the regional office).
Each executive body is supported in the implementation of labour market policy by administrative offices. The Land offices and regional employment offices which had existed before the reform of 1994 were adapted accordingly, while a new administrative office was established at federal level.
In addition, the AMS is authorised to establish special institutions for specific activities (e.g. for research work and training and further training of personnel; regional offices with specific priority areas).
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