I have a letter from EASA staing that they are going all out to get a bi lateral for FCL with the FAA to attach to the existing bi lateral already in place! Dual licensing not being the preferred option!
Well they're certainly trying very hard to get the licensing part of the BASA in place, but that's the first I've heard about it not being "dual licensing". You seem to be applying that it would be mutual acceptance rather than just simpler conversion. I guess we'll see.
The conversion with ICAO licences from IR to EASA IR with just a flight test and oral exam you posted would appear to show flexibility by EASA in that respect ( if it happens ? )
Yes, but definitely a separate route. I think they'd like to get both the CBM-IR (with the third country conversion part) and the BASA with the FAA in place by April 2014, but it's touch and go on both.
I can't comment on Austrian or EU employment law.