Austria: Will Holidays on Thursdays be Abolished?

People ♦ Published: April 10, 2013; 16:14 ♦ (Vindobona)

Minister of Infrastructure, Bures and President of IV announced to discuss the matter.

Austria: Will Holidays on Thursdays be Abolished? / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Christian Jansky [CC BY-SA 3.0]

Minister of Infrastructure, Doris Bures and President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (IV), Georg Kapsch presented themselves open to discussion about the shifting of public holidays on a Thursday to a Friday to avoid the number of “bridge-day weekends”. Both regard the subject as “discussion-worthy” since there is a surplus of four holidays a year compared with the EU…