In autumn 2020, the Austrian government's public-employment agency opted for a highly-unusual new employment policy — and created the job guarantee pilot programme (called MAGMA.)
The initiative, along the lines of a similar one in France since 2016, was born with the aim of eradicating long-term unemployment.
The premise could be formulated as: what if those who wanted a job with good working conditions could get it?...
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Already a member? LoginPaula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.