🇨🇭 Switzerland · Employment & Labor

Hiring rules, employment contracts, payroll, social insurance, and EOR options.

Swiss employment law is relatively liberal, set mainly by the Code of Obligations and sector agreements; SECO oversees working conditions.

  • The Code of Obligations and collective agreements govern employment.
  • There is no nationwide statutory minimum wage (a few cantons set one).
  • SECO oversees working conditions and labour-market policy.

Official authorities

  • SECO

    State Secretariat for Economic Affairs — labour conditions.

Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.

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