Azerbaijan and Austria signed a memorandum on mutual understanding in the fields of labour, employment and welfare. As Trend reports the document has been signed by Azerbaijani Minister of Labour and Social Security Fizuli Alekperov and Federal Minister of Labour and Consumer Security Rudolf Hundstofer. The signing ceremony took place during Alekperov’s visit to Vienna for participation in a minister conference organized by the Economic Commission on Europe in the UN. The document specifies for cooperation in legislation improvement and the employment field, development of an active market policy in order to improve facilities for employment of unemployed and those particularly in need of social security and in the field of professional training organisations according to requirements of the labour market was made.