Work & Salaries
The Swiss labor market is highly qualified, competitive, and liberal. Discover your employment rights, notice periods, and fair salary expectations.
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- Working in Switzerland: how to look for a job, negotiate and get off to a good start
- RAV and unemployment in Switzerland: how unemployment works, requirements and steps
- Social insurance in Switzerland: AVS, AI, LPP and Unemployment Insurance (Paro)
- Retirement in Switzerland: how much you will receive depending on your age of arrival
- Salaries in Switzerland by sector and region: How much do you earn?
- Returning purchases in Switzerland: what does and doesn't exist
- Years of contributions in Spain: do they count towards your retirement in Switzerland?
- Job Search in Switzerland: Platforms and Strategies
- The 13th AVS pension: what it is, when it arrives and who it affects
- Employment contracts in Switzerland: rights and obligations
- The trial period and notice periods in Switzerland
- What nobody tells you about pay-as-you-go mobile contracts in Switzerland
- Undeclared work in Switzerland: what you’re really risking when someone offers to pay you in cash without providing a receipt
- Working part-time in Switzerland is not just about earning less
- Your boss doesn’t pay your salary in Switzerland. Here’s what you can actually do
- If tomorrow immigrants disappeared in Switzerland... and in the rest of Europe
- Coming to work in Switzerland: what you need to have resolved before arriving
- In Switzerland, they can sack you on a Friday and tell you not to come back on Monday. Unless there’s a genuinely serious reason, they owe you a fair bit more than just your wages
- LPP 2026: disability and survival pensions, finally adjusted to prices
- El teletrabajo desde España siendo residente en Suiza: las reglas que ya son definitivas
- La jubilación de las mujeres en Suiza: lo que cambia en 2026 con la reforma AVS 21
- The probationary period in Switzerland does not work in the same way as in Spain
- Your boss in Switzerland isn’t legally obliged to provide you with air conditioning. But they do have other obligations that many people aren’t aware of
- El Kurzarbeit: cuando la economía frena, el seguro cubre parte de tu sueldo
- Suiza negoció con Trump y bajó los aranceles al 15%, pero el daño ya estaba hecho
- The 13th month’s salary in Switzerland is not required by law. However, in many sectors and under many contracts, it is mandatory. And if you leave your job halfway through the year, you are entitled to your share of it
- The Federal Council wants foreigners who leave to have to sell their apartment
- El salario mínimo en Suiza: qué cantones lo fijan y qué pasa en los que no
- Your employer in Switzerland may monitor you. But the law sets very specific limits on this
- In August, many companies in Switzerland close and make you use up your holiday entitlement. They call it ‘Betriebsferien’ and it’s perfectly legal
- In Switzerland, it is possible to go on strike. But doing it properly is far more complicated than it seems.
- A 21-year-old apprentice in Switzerland has just been sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding 53 elderly people. The twist: he was recruited from France
- If your child is ill and cannot go to school or nursery in Switzerland, you are entitled to paid leave to stay at home. However, there are conditions that many people are unaware of
- The thirteenth salary in Switzerland is not automatic. When they owe you and when they simply offer it to you
- Working part-time in Switzerland is not just about earning half
- El mercado laboral suizo en 2026: qué sectores contratan y cuáles están ajustando
- When you leave a job in Switzerland with unused holiday entitlement, your employer must pay you for it. Many people are unaware of this and end up losing out
- In Spain, people shake your hand and sometimes give you a letter. In Switzerland, when you leave a job, you have a legal right to a document that can open or close doors for you for years to come
- If you lose your job in Switzerland, this is what you should know from day one
- If you are made redundant in Switzerland whilst on sick leave, that redundancy is not valid. What many people don’t realise is that there is a time limit on this, which depends on how long you have been with the company
- Hacerse autónomo en Suiza siendo extranjero: más pasos de los que parece
- Switzerland does not have a national minimum wage, but that does not mean that there is no wage floor
- Your company in Switzerland is required by law to keep a record of all your working hours. That record exists. And you can request a copy.
- In Switzerland, there is a politician who wants to make it compulsory for everyone to complete vocational training before they can go to university
- Pensions in Spain and Switzerland don’t add up the way you think
- The Spaniards who came in the 60s with an 8-month contract and without being able to bring their family
- .ch domain, Swiss name, payment via Twint. And nothing arrived
- In Switzerland, two out of every three young people do not go to university. And that is not a problem: it is the system working as it should
- RC insurance and floor content insurance in Switzerland: two different things that are almost always badly contracted
- In Switzerland there is no legal maximum temperature from which your company is obliged to send you home
- If you work nights or Sundays in Switzerland, the law entitles you to a supplement. Many never get paid.
- In Switzerland, the 13th month’s salary is neither automatic nor guaranteed by law
- Holidays in Switzerland: what the law says and what depends on your contract
- In Switzerland, a court has just ruled that it is legal for a company to make you clock in when you go to the toilet
- You’ve been in your new job in Switzerland for two weeks and you’re being made redundant with seven days’ notice. That’s not unfair. It’s the law.
- If it’s 35 degrees in the office, are you entitled to go home in Switzerland?
- Cycling in Switzerland seems easy… until you start seeing the fines.
- Your Swiss contract may include a non-compete clause. Many people sign it without understanding it and, when they leave, they discover that their hands are tied
- In Switzerland, the working day ends at the time specified in the contract. No exceptions and no one is to blame. It takes some getting used to
- If you’re made to work on a public holiday in Switzerland, the law states that you’re entitled to compensation. What nobody tells you is how that works in practice.