In 2009, an Austrian insurance company issued the following content announcement: “We are looking for people over the age of 20 for a part-time sales manager position belonging to such zodiac signs as Capricorn, calf, lamb, waterlake and lion.”

This announcement initiated an investigation by the authorities. It is noteworthy that they concluded that such demands made by the company were not illegal, not because they have any special sympathy for astrology or because the practice is not discriminatory, but because the Austrian law governing recruitment prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender, age and race. In other words, this was legal, since the law did not provide for discrimination on astrological grounds.