Constitutional challenge to statutory ten-year service threshold for public sector long-service allowance

The Austrian Constitutional Court dismissed the constitutional complaint, upholding the challenged provision of the Federal Civil Servants Act. The dispute concerned a civil servant's claim that the statutory requirement for a minimum of ten years of service to receive an allowance for long-term service was unconstitutional, as it allegedly violated the principle of equal treatment regarding the calculation of service periods prior to a certain date. The Court held that the legislature possesses a wide margin of discretion in determining the conditions for financial benefits and tenure classifications within the public service framework, and that the specific time-limit requirement did not constitute an arbitrary or disproportionate restriction of the complainant's fundamental rights.