Useful
E-Card:
The Austrian E-Card (SV chip card) is the personal chip card of the electronic administration system of the Austrian social insurance (health, accident, pension, unemployment insurance). This system is intended to support the administrative processes between insured persons, employers, contractual partners (doctors, hospitals, pharmacists, etc.) and persons of equivalent status, as well as social insurance providers.
* If you are working in Austria for the first time you should definitely apply for the E-Card by the responsible authority!
More information at:
https://www.chipkarte.at/cdscontent/?contentid=10007.678532&portal=ecardportal
https://www.gesundheitskasse.at/cdscontent/?contentid=10007.870671&portal=oegkportal
Schedule an appointment:
https://www.chipkarte.at/cdscontent/?contentid=10007.853283&portal=ecardportal%20f
Address:
If you change your address in Austria, you must deregister by the responsible municipal office, respectively register the new address.
More information:
Travel to Austria:
Public transportation:
Austria has a well-developed rail network and if you want to travel to Austria from the surrounding European countries, it is best to do so by train.
The train connections and bus connections (within Austria) can be easily found on the ÖBB website:
Bus connections:
Other possibilities
- BlaBlaCar: https://www.blablacar.de/
Labor law:
*Below you will find links to some useful pages in the field of labor law:
*The text is in German language. Please use the browser tool "webpage translate".
