The new measures are intended to give refugees a structured everyday life while also benefiting Austrian society.
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00:00The Austrian government has announced a tough new set of rules for asylum seekers, which
00:10will require them to work whilst in the country.
00:13The new measures mean that refugees will be obliged to do charitable work for the federal,
00:18state and local governments, or at companies with at least five community service workers,
00:24in the nursing service or in homeless shelters.
00:28The country's interior minister, Gerhard Kahner, announced the new measures that came
00:33into effect for asylum seekers in Austria from Tuesday, the 16th of July.
00:40The new measures are intended to strengthen the integration of refugees.