Swiss Employment Law

• Introduction: Employment Law in Switzerland
• Table of Content
• The General Aspects of a Contract of Employment
  • The definition of a contract of employment
  • Underlying legislation
  • The statutorily valid conclusion of a contract of employment
  • Insert: Negotiations for a contract of employment
• The Duties of an Employee
  • Duty to provide labour
  • Duty of fidelity
• The Duties of an Employer
  • The duty to pay remuneration
  • Duty of care
• Additional Matters concerning a Contract of Employment
• The Collective Labour Agreement
  • Generalities concerning the ‘CLA’
  • The parties participating in a ‘CLA’
  • Content
• Particular Contracts of Employment
  • Articles of apprenticeship
  • Sales representatives contracts
  • Outsourced Homeworking Contracts
  • Part time work
  • Job Sharing
  • Work on call
• The Termination of a Contract of Employment
  • Ordinary termination with a time period of notice
  • The extraordinary termination
  • Further forms of termination
  • Prohibition of competition with consequential effect
• Examples of Contracts of Employment
• Excursus: “Tech sector: Termination of employment contract for non-EU/EFTA nationals > right of residence?”
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