Parental Part-Time

"Elternteilzeit (Parental part-time)" is also called "Teilkarenz" or "Teilzeitkarenz".

Who
In companies with more than 20 employees, fathers and mothers have a right to part-time employment or change of working hours, if they have been employed for more than three years without interruption. However, there is no legal obligation to grant parental part-time!

Links to the human resources departments of Austrian public universities 

During parental part-time, there is special dismissal protection.

The details of parental part-time have to be negotiated with the employer.  

When
The right to parental part-time is upright until the seventh birthday of the child or a later school entry.
 
Legal text:
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend
Parental part-time is regulated in the Mutterschutzgesetz (MschG) and the Väterkarenzgesetz (VKG).

Further information:
Arbeiterkammer-Portal
The portal of the chamber of labour has set up a separate area on parental part-time . There, you will find amongst others sample letters and practical examples.

Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz
offers information on a separate site on the subject of "Elternkarenz und Elternteilzeit" (parental leave and parental part time).

Frauenratgeberin
The women’s counsel of the Federal Chancellery offers information under the heading of "Teilzeitbeschäftigung für Eltern" (part time employment for parents).

Help.gv.at
The authorities’ guide for Austria also itemises the regulations and criteria on the so-called Teilzeitbeschäftigung neu (new part-time employment).