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Negativity over interest rates from UBS chairman

This content was published on Apr 25, 2015 On Saturday the Neue Zürcher Zeitung published Weber’s misgivings on the negative interest rates set by the Swiss National Bank back in January, the same month the Swiss franc was released from its peg to the euro. “For company clients and institutional investors with very large cash reserves we have introduced individual rates,” said Weber,…

Self-scanning: the trend towards a self-service society?

This content was published on Apr 20, 2015

Jobless rate drops despite franc decision

This content was published on Apr 10, 2015 The Swiss unemployment rate dropped slightly in March, suggesting that as yet there has been little impact on the economy from the shock decision by the Swiss National Bank to scrap the cap on the value of the Swiss franc against the euro.

CEO pay hasn’t fallen since vote

This content was published on Apr 2, 2015 According to a salary survey by the Swiss News Agency, Steven Newman, the former CEO of oil and gas exploration firm Transocean, was the highest paid executive in Switzerland in 2014. With a pay package worth CHF1.18 million a month, Newman overtook 2013 pay leader Joe Jimenez of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. However, despite his…

Swiss to tackle labour market abuses

This content was published on Apr 1, 2015 The measures are part of a package, put forward last September, to improve protection of workers in Switzerland under increasing pressure following the introduction of the free movement of people with the 28-nation European Union over the past ten years. Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann said the government, the trade unions and the main employers organisations…

Too old to be hired, too young to retire

This content was published on Mar 31, 2015 The second-floor office in the Regional Employment Centre (RAV) serving central Bern is full of large plants. Birds twitter outside the windows, and the sun shines in. Spring has sprung in the Swiss capital, but the people coming to RAV aren’t necessarily enjoying the weather. They’ve lost their jobs, and finding a new one can…

The last chocolate bunny

This content was published on Mar 26, 2015

More cross-border workers commute to Switzerland

This content was published on Mar 23, 2015 Overall numbers now add up to 287,100 workers who come into Switzerland on a daily basis for work. Just under two-thirds of these are men. Residents of France made up over half of all cross-border workers, followed by Italy and then Germany. The latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office also show that the Lake…

EU jobseekers must be solvent

This content was published on Mar 13, 2015 The move reinforces a rule which was already in force in Switzerland but had been subject to confusion, leading to several cantons giving welfare payments to EU citizens looking for jobs while on these short-stay permits. This had led to harsh criticism by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party, known for its anti-immigration and anti-EU…

Study: foreign residents live longer than Swiss

This content was published on Mar 10, 2015 Foreign residents in Switzerland have longer life expectancies than Swiss natives born in the small alpine nation, new research from the University of Geneva reveals.

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