!!!Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich, AMS

Austrian Labour Market Service (Arbeitsmarktservie Oesterreich, AMS) A 
body under public law created by the 1994 Labour Market Service Act 
(Arbeitsmarktservicegesetz), formerly part of the Federal Ministry for 
Labour and Social Affairs, providing services for and on the labour 
market (vocational consulting, counselling, work placement, labour 
policy promotion, etc.), the accounting and payment of wage 
replacement benefits in the case of  unemployment and supervisory 
services in the context of the Employment of Aliens Act. The AMS is 
divided into 1 federal, 9 provincial and 106 regional 
offices, with approx. 4,200 employees (in 2000). It is mainly financed 
by contributions from  unemployment insurance.


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