Mitterlehner: "Companies are Taking On More Apprentices Again"

Politics ♦ Published: March 2, 2011; 00:08 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian Minister of Economy sees positive developments on the labor and apprenticeship market. The promotion of apprenticeships has proved to be successful.

Mitterlehner: "Companies are Taking On More Apprentices Again" / Picture: © Wikipedia / Manfred Werner / Tsui

Minister of Economy and Youth Reinhold Mitterlehner drew a positive balance of the current labor market data: "Through the good performance of enterprises, unemployment goes back much stronger and earlier than expected by the experts.”

“Supported by our subsidy system, companies have taken their obligation to train people seriously. The number of newly qualified apprentices…