Occasional overtime for as many people as possible

In Austria calls for a redistribution of work are growing louder. The number of those who do not have fixed working times is already growing anyway, the daily Die Presse writes: "A proscribed reduction in working hours is … not desirable because the amount of work that needs to be done varies anyway. There are two ways of handling this: either the same people work sometimes more and sometimes less or you have a two-tier society: on the one hand the privileged who have strictly regular working times and who can, figuratively speaking, drop their pens at 5 p.m. And then those who work on call as temporary workers, freelancers or on a contract basis to cover for the peaks in work. Even the best working time laws won't help them because they often don't apply to this group. It would be fairer for as many people as possible to do overtime every now and then."

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