http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/business/2011-04/26/c_13847162.htmVIENNA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Austria will open its labor market to eight eastern European members of the European Union (EU) on May 1 in a move that is expected to generate both challenges and opportunities.
Austria and Germany are the last two EU members to open their doors to workers from Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Slovakia, having waited the maximum seven years from when the former Soviet bloc states joined the EU in 2004.
The move finally establishes a single EU labor market, allowing labor resources to transfer more smoothly among member states.
Austria, facing an aging population, is hoping the new market will provide it with a fresh source of labor and will try to attract highly qualified experts, as well as legalize illegal workers in such industries as building and catering.
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