No payslips

Recruitment agency harmed almost 50 workers

Almost 50 employees took advantage of the Chamber of Labor's legal assistance (symbolic image)(Bild: Andreas Tröster)

A recruitment agency in Linz had paid employees too little in recent months and had not issued them with payslips. Almost 50 of the workers turned to the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor for legal assistance. They were successful and won the outstanding wages in court. 

Two workers were employed for several months by a Linz-based personnel service provider at various companies in the iron and metal processing industry. Throughout this time, they had not received a payslip from their employer, the recruitment agency. In order to have their wage payments checked, they contacted the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor. 

Numerous injured parties 
Demands by the AK to hand over the payslips were ignored by the recruitment agency. In the meantime, however, more and more aggrieved parties contacted the employee protectors, leading to growing suspicions that the recruitment agency was generally not issuing payslips. In the end, almost 50 victims contacted the chamber.

Lawsuit was successful
So the Chamber of Labor sued for the issue of payslips and for the missing working time records. It was successful: the personnel leasing company not only provided the missing working time records, but also paid the wages that had been withheld to date in order to avoid legal proceedings.