In Austria, apprentices must work for four years to obtain their qualification.
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Austrian law (Berufsausbildungsgesetz, § 6) states that apprenticeship duration 'shall as a rule be three years' and may be fixed only between two and four years — the default is three, not four.
WKO, the body responsible for apprenticeship statistics, states explicitly that 'most' apprenticeships are three-year programmes; four-year terms apply only to specific occupations.
Shorter durations are also possible: credit for prior training or school completion can reduce a three-year apprenticeship by one year.
The claim presents the maximum possible duration as if it were the mandatory, universal duration, omitting the two-, two-and-a-half-, three- and three-and-a-half-year variants.
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