Swiss Employment Law – Selected Hot Topics I (English)

Success factor

This practice-oriented one-day workshop in Swiss Employment Law is designed for non-Swiss HR professionals. It is conducted in English and will provide the participants with the most relevant information on some hot topics of Swiss Employment Law, its particularities, the deviations from the law in other jurisdictions, court cases and pitfalls for HR professionals. Coming from other jurisdictions, international HR professionals are often not familiar with the particularities of the Swiss Employment Law system, and soon notice that Swiss law differs significantly from the law in other jurisdictions. Working in HR in a Swiss company it is paramount to know the law and the practice of the labour courts.

Key contents

This practice-oriented workshop will focus on these topics:

• Data protection at the workplace (incl. the revised data protection law)
• Work permits
• International secondments
• Non-compete/non-solicitation clauses
• How to draft work certificates
• Special rights and obligations of the management

Your benefit

In this seminar, you acquire the basics of Swiss employment law jurisdiction:

• The objective of this interactive training is to enhance sensitivity of international HR Professionals and Line Managers to the cultural and legal different ways of dealing with Labour Law issues in Switzerland.
• It is about simplifying and explaining many of the differences to other legal and regulatory frameworks and helping to better manage legal and in particular reputational risks in the future.

Participants

• Foreign HR professionals and members of the management who deal with Swiss Employment law issues.
• Maximum number of participants: 12