Report On Accompanying Measures In Switzerland

Published date24 July 2021
Subject MatterFinance and Banking, Employment and HR, Immigration, Financial Services, Contract of Employment, Employee Benefits & Compensation, General Immigration
Law FirmCONVINUS
AuthorBrizida Alani

Statistics of the expatriate population and short stays with Swiss employers subject to reporting requirements

On 11 June 2020, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO published the reports on the implementation of the accompanying measures (FlaM) and the Federal Act against Illegal Employment (BGSA) in 2019. The accompanying measures concern the implementation of the provisions of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons between Switzerland and the EU in the context of postings to Switzerland. This concerns the monitoring activities of the enforcement bodies with regard to compliance with the working and salary conditions of foreign employees. For those areas in which there is a valid generally binding collective labour agreement (CLA), the joint commissions are responsible, and for the rest of the labour market, the cantonal tripartite commissions are responsible.

In 2019, the number of short stays from the EU subject to reporting requirements was 3.8 % higher than in the previous year. However, short-term job applications with Swiss employers are the largest group of reportable stays with a share of 56.4% (2.8% more than in the previous year), followed by posted employees working in Switzerland for longer than 90 days with 36.2%. The smallest group of all, is that of self employed service providers with 7.4% (1.6% less than in the previous year).

The increase in the number of short-term jobs started with Swiss employers, were mainly due to the agricultural sector (+7.2%, 1233 persons), the hotel and restaurant industry (+5.2%, 985 persons) and the personnel leasing sector (+2.3%, 874 persons). From a cantonal perspective, the majority of shortterm job openings are in the cantons of Zurich (14.0%), Geneva (11.5%), Vaud (9.1%) and Ticino (8.6%). This year , the Canton of Valais recorded the largest increase in short-term job applications with Swiss employers, with 16.3% in the areas of agriculture and personnel hire. After two years of decline, the number of posted employees rose again in 2019. The origin of the posted employees has not changed in the composition of the countries of origin. The largest group of posted employees comes from Germany with 47.5%, followed by Italy with 16.5%, France with 9.3% and Austria with 6.9%. Posted workers from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic account for only 8%. Most of the secondments take place in the manufacturing sector with 33.7% and in the ancillary building trade with...

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