Friday as a problem

AMS ban due to child: court has ruled

Because the AMS had cut off her unemployment benefit, Evelyn G. from Lower Austria took her case to the Federal Administrative Court.(Bild: Patrick Huber, Evelyn G.)

A court hearing was recently held in the case of a single mother who had to take her two-year-old son to a job interview due to a lack of childcare. The AMS had canceled the mother's benefits and accused her of obstruction. The ombudswoman knows how the case ended.

The background: Because her previous employer retired, Evelyn G. - a single mother of a two-year-old boy - registered with the AMS after maternity leave and educational leave. Among other things, she was offered a job as a surgery assistant. The potential employer sent her a text message inviting her to a job interview on a Friday. Which became a problem for Ms G..