I live in Austria. I have a student residence permit which allows me to work here for 20 hours a week. I’m not sure what type of self employed person I should be:
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One school has applied to put me down as a Friei Deinstnehmer, another school has said they also need to do this. Two other schools have said nothing about this – maybe they expect me just to sort it out myself.
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Can anyone help me out with this?
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This depends on the type of school you will work for. Most teachers are in the federal service or state service depending on the type of school. In private schools it can be different but there it also depends on the school owner.
>Two other schools have said nothing about this – maybe they expect me just to sort it out myself
Was it in any way discussed or mentioned, that it would be self-employed? If not, maybe the are just assuming, that they would be hiring you normally
Imo, as teacher in some school you can’t be a “Freier Dienstnehmer”.
If they don’t want to hire you properly, don’t go there, run.
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One essential attribute of a F.D. is that you are your own boss, who decides alone when and how you do the agreed work. That doesn’t fit well with a school where you have mandatory class times, get restrictions from the school what books etc. you can use, and many more things.
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A private school offering you to be a F.D. smells like illegal exploitation, nothing less. Because, eg. as your own f.D boss that chooses own working times, you don’t have minimum PTO (the school will tell you to work the whole year without time off). As your own boss who chooses prices at market rate, there is no KV minimum salary (the school will underpay you). If you’re sick, they can fire you in a second. And so on.
Don’t take that risk.
Austria – It’s very confusing!
That’s actually our tourism slogan.