EXPLAINED: How Austria's revamped educational leave programme works

EXPLAINED: How Austria's revamped educational leave programme works

Austria has overhauled its popular Bildungskarenz model, introducing stricter rules and a new budget cap - here’s what workers (and parents) need to know.

As of next year, the educational skills will be replaced by a further training period, and the conditions for this will be more stringent. "Timeout time is therefore difficult to achieve.