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Poverty touches old and young in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 5, 2009 For socially disadvantaged pre-schoolers, missing out on the chance to attend a play group can be the first of a chain of missed opportunities that will ultimately lead to poor employment prospects and low income for life. A group of seven Swiss agencies with the common goal of combating poverty joined forces in Bern on…

Access for disabled improving

This content was published on Dec 3, 2009 About 90 per cent of the country’s buses are wheelchair accessible and more than half of trains have access level to platforms, the interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday, the International Day of People with Disabilities. Swiss law mandates that all public transport be accessible for disabled people by 2024. It also stipulates…

Leuthard queries free movement policy

This content was published on Nov 29, 2009 She said it expected more European Union citizens to return home after losing their jobs in the economic crisis and that she was considering making it harder for them to get unemployment benefits. Switzerland has signed a bilateral agreement with the EU allowing the free movement of people, meaning that EU and Swiss citizens can…

Recruitment policies come under spotlight

This content was published on Nov 26, 2009 “Swiss businesses should recruit as a priority people who are well integrated in the Swiss labour market,” Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, a member of the centre-left Social Democrat party, told the French-language television discussion programme Infrarouge. She also called for the so-called “accompanying measures” in a bilateral accord with the European Union, designed to protect…

Unions move toward minimum wage initiative

This content was published on Nov 9, 2009 Switzerland does not have a minimum wage rate, but limits are included in some collective agreements and standardised work contracts. The initiative, the federation said at a news conference on Monday, should achieve the introduction of a minimum wage to protect workers not included in collective agreements, and ensure that collective contracts include minimum wage…

Jobless figures climb to five year high

This content was published on Nov 6, 2009 The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) said on Friday that there were more than 158,000 people registered as jobless at the end of October – 3,729 more than a month earlier. Even more dramatically, the unemployment rate has increased by 57 per cent compared with October 2008. Those aged 15-24 are still the group…

Clinton backs disabled work integration scheme

This content was published on Nov 5, 2009 A scheme run by St Gallen University aims to reduce the burden on the country’s disability insurance scheme, inject more value into the economy and enhance the quality of life for disabled people. Clinton was on hand in St Gallen on Thursday to help launch the Center for Disability and Integration. He told the assembled…

Adecco in $1.3 billion US deal

This content was published on Oct 20, 2009 The agreement by the Swiss and American companies is based on a purchase price of $13.8 per MPS share, which represents a premium of 24 per cent over Monday’s closing stock price. Adecco said it was launching SFr900 million of mandatory convertible bonds to shore up its balance sheet and protect its investment grade credit…

Second generation foreigners well integrated

This content was published on Oct 15, 2009 A report issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Thursday, which considered the integration of so-called “secondos” in 16 countries, described Switzerland as an “exception” among European states. The study says that whatever the level of education, there is very little difference in the employment quota between secondos and Swiss. This…

Tapping into Japan’s “silver market”

This content was published on Oct 14, 2009 But Japan’s over-65 “silver” consumers – who will grow from 20 to 40 per cent of the population by 2055 – could present a bonanza for Swiss and other foreign firms that learn to cater to their needs. Experts predict this segment could become avid consumers of a wide range of goods and services, from…

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