Workplace Switzerland

Unilever cuts 100 additional jobs in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 17, 2016 The cuts will affect one-third of the workforce currently employed at Unilever’s site in the northern Swiss canton of Schaffhausen. The workers affected were informed of the change on Friday and the cuts will take place by the summer of 2017, the company announced. “We assume that some of the affected employees will change to…

Job indicator developed to guide quota decision

This content was published on Sep 9, 2016 The indicator is based around four criteria: how difficult it is to recruit personnel, the relationship between the number of open jobs in a field and the number of people seeking jobs, how long jobs in the field remain advertised and how long people spend looking for jobs. Researchers assigned numbers to 97 professions based…

Meeting the need for skilled workers

This content was published on Sep 5, 2016 How can the Swiss economy best manage a blow dealt by voters who have demanded a cap on hiring foreign staff?

Switzerland is an ‘island of bliss’: State economist

This content was published on Aug 14, 2016 In an interview with the Schweiz am Sonntag, Boris Zürcher, the head of the labour unit of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), said the state of the strong franc, the economy and the job market have made Switzerland an “island of bliss within a turbulent ocean”. In January the jobless rate rose to…

Service sector

This content was published on Jul 14, 2016 While Switzerland maintains a strong manufacturing base, today around 70% of the active population works in service industries.

Inside the labour market

This content was published on Jul 14, 2016 But it is a busy job. Swiss full-time workers log on average 41.7 hours a week on the clock. For all of that work, full-time employees are entitled to paid leave of at least 20 working days per year. This is less than in many other European countries. Public holidays vary from canton to canton,…

How hard can it be to find a job in Switzerland?

This content was published on Jul 10, 2016 Regardless of whether job seekers are young or old, foreign or Swiss, finding a job in Switzerland can be a difficult and lengthy process. swissinfo journalist Jeannie Wurz talks with job seekers and a job counselor about the experience.

Subsidies for childcare aim to boost workforce

This content was published on Jun 30, 2016 The cabinet has submitted a request to parliament, which will now be debated, for a system of financial incentives amounting to CHF100 million ($102.5 million) over five years. Childcare in Switzerland is notoriously expensive, with full-time care in the cities of Geneva and Zurich costing as much as 20% of a family’s income, compared to…

Foreigners wanted to fill Swiss apprenticeship gap

This content was published on Jun 14, 2016 Around 8,500 apprenticeship places are expected to remain unfilled in Switzerland this year as the number of posts available outstrips demand. This phenomenon is a reversal of the situation of a few years ago when there were not enough places available. Demands on industry to increase the number of trainees they take on have been…

Working from home on the rise, but still rare

This content was published on Jun 7, 2016 Although the practice has quadrupled in Switzerland over the last 15 years, only 2.7% of employees work from home regularly.

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