NATIONAL LABOUR MARKET POLICIES
Basic Information Reports
1.3.1.1.Legal status
Apart from a few exceptions (early warning system, private placement), the Labour Market Promotion Act and the AMS Act are private-sector regulations and not national laws. Thus, there is no legal entitlement to active labour market services or benefits and neither a special procedure for legal petition nor any control by the administrative court.
All other legal principles are enforced within the framework of the national administration; the offices of the AMS function as public bodies and are bound to the stipulated administrative procedures. Applicants who fulfil the qualifying conditions are legally entitled to benefits; decisions can be appealed before the next-highest authority (Land offices or BMAGS). In addition, the constitutional and administrative courts exercise a supervisory function.
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