working conditions in Switzerland

working conditions in Switzerland

Working conditions

  • Usual working time in Switzerland: 42 hours per week.
  • Holidays: At least 4 weeks per year.
  • The following days are general holidays: 1st and 2nd of January, Good Friday, Easter, Easter Monday, Pentecost Monday, 1st of August, 25th and 26th of December. Most of the cantons have some additional holidays.
  • It depends on your contract if overtime is disbursed or can be compensated.
  • Look at our salary section which salary you can expect.
  • The following information must be written in your work contract: salary, weekly working time, holidays, organisation of overtime.

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Useful links

  • The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO provides information about your rights and your duties if you are working in Switzerland (only in German, French and Italian).
  • Swiss Labour Law (only in German, French and Italian).
  • Your rights if you are pregnant (only in German and French).
  • Unia, Switzerland’s inter-professional trade union.
  • networking-for-jobs is a platform helping Swiss expats and third country citizens with a higher education finding a job in Switzerland.
  • Travailler-en-Suisse.ch provides information about working in Switzerland (French only).
  • www.grenzinfo.de, Several webpages with information about working in Switzerland. Addresses mainly to Germans and border crossers living in Germany (German only).
  • Jobs.myScience.ch, the job portal for scientists, researchers and academics in Sswitzerland