Your contract
Contract no must dey for writing. But if your work go pass one month, your employer must confirm di main terms for writing inside di first month: who and who, start date, your role, salary and hours every week.1
Di first month na probation, unless una agree another thing; e fit last three months at most. During probation, any side fit end di contract with seven days notice.1
After probation, notice na one month for di first year of work, two months from di second to di ninth year and three months after dat, each one to di end of di month, unless your contract or collective agreement talk another thing.1
You get right to at least four weeks of paid holiday every year, five until you reach 20. While you still dey work there, dem no fit pay you money instead of make you take di holiday.1
Di maximum work week na 45 hours for industry, for office and technical staff and for big shops, and 50 hours for most other workers.2
Sickness, pregnancy and sack
After probation, your employer no fit sack you while you no fit work because of sickness or accident: for 30 days for di first year of work, 90 days from di second to di fifth year and 180 days from di sixth year.1
Notice wey dem give during pregnancy or for di 16 weeks after di baby born no dey valid.1
If you no fit work and e no be your fault, your employer go still pay your salary for some time: three weeks for di first year, longer after dat. Plenty employers dey use daily sickness allowance insurance cover dis one.1
Recognition of your certificates
For regulated profession, like doctor, nurse, teacher or electrician, dem must recognise your foreign certificate before you fit work for dat job.46
Di authority depend on di profession: SERI for most vocational and professional certificates, di Federal Office of Public Health (MEBEKO) for medical professions, di Swiss Red Cross for plenty health professions and EDK for teaching. recognition.swiss go tell you which one concern you.47
For profession wey no dey regulated, you no need recognition. But level certificate from SERI fit still help, because e dey show employers where your certificate dey for di Swiss system.56
Na only certificates wey you don finish dem fit recognise. Di process get fee and e dey take some weeks.56
Equal pay
Equal pay for work wey get equal value na constitutional right for women and men.8
Employers wey get 100 workers or more must do equal pay analysis every four years, make independent person check am, and tell their workers di result.3
Logib, di free tool from di federal government, dey help any employer check how dem dey pay people.9
If you lose your work
Register with di regional employment centre (RAV/ORP) as soon as you know say your work dey end, at di latest di first day wey you want benefits.10
Normally, you get right to benefits if you pay contributions for at least 12 months inside di two years before.10
Di daily allowance na 70% of your insured salary, or 80% if you dey take care of children, you get disability or your allowance go dey small.10
Start your own business
Sole proprietorship must enter di commercial register once di turnover reach CHF 100,000 every year.1
From CHF 100,000 turnover every year, you must also register for VAT.11
To be recognised as self-employed, register with your canton compensation office. Then you go pay your own AHV/IV/EO contributions.12
EasyGov, di federal online counter, dey help you start company and do plenty paperwork for one place.13
Where you fit get help
Sources
- 1Fedlex · Code of Obligations, Art. 324a, 329a, 329d, 330b, 335b, 335c, 336c, 931 · fedlex.admin.ch →
- 2Fedlex · Labour Act, Art. 9 · fedlex.admin.ch →
- 3Fedlex · Gender Equality Act, Art. 13a–13e · fedlex.admin.ch →
- 4SDBB · Having your foreign qualifications recognised in Switzerland · sdbb.ch →
- 5SERI · FAQ on the recognition procedure · sbfi.admin.ch →
- 6Canton of Zurich · Recognition of foreign qualifications · zh.ch →
- 7SERI · National contact point for recognition · sbfi.admin.ch →
- 8Fedlex · Federal Constitution, Art. 8 · fedlex.admin.ch →
- 9FOGE · Logib · Equal pay self-test · logib.admin.ch →
- 10SECO · arbeit.swiss · Unemployment insurance: registration, entitlement, daily allowance · arbeit.swiss →
- 11FTA · VAT liability · estv.admin.ch →
- 12AHV/IV · Leaflet 2.02: contributions of the self-employed · ahv-iv.ch →
- 13EasyGov · The federal online counter for businesses · easygov.swiss →
Na general information, no be legal, tax or financial advice. Rules fit different from canton to canton and commune to commune, and amounts dey change. Check with di authority wey we name for di sources before you act.