Compulsory work for asylum seekers in Austria is probably off the table - two countries are opting out. In Austria, as in Germany, asylum seekers are usually not allowed to have regular employment for months.
Two federal states want to go further and introduce a requirement in the medium term at the latest. In Upper Austria, where the right-wing authoritarian FPÖ is co-governs, compulsory work is supposedly to be introduced “gradually” But lawyer Lukas Gleitner warned that could be formally illegal.