Swiss Employment Law – What You Need To Know (English)

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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 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:

• The fundamentals of Swiss Employment Law
• Rights and duties during the application process
• Concluding an employment contract – what can go wrong
• Employment Regulations – pros and cons, how can they be amended?
• Salary and bonus – when does the employer have to pay a bonus?
• Time recording: Overtime and extra time – what is the difference, what are the entitlements of the employees?
• Paying salary during sickness – what are the duties of the employer?
• Protective periods (Sperrfristen)
• Dismissal with immediate effect – case law
• Garden leave – what has to be paid during garden leave, what can be compensated?
• Termination of the employment – rights and limitations (incl. abusive termination and termination agreement)

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

• HR specialists and managers who deal with Swiss Employment law issues
• Maximum number of participants: 12