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Public perception often associates sensitive terminations primarily with terminations with immediate effect under Articles 337 et seq. Swiss Code of Obligations (CO) or abusive terminations under Article 336 CO. These are the best known examples in practice. They also quite often lead to court proceedings.

In the first two chapters of our step-by-step guide to remote work, we first defined the different forms of remote work and then looked specifically...

The employee has been working fulltime at a bank as a director since 1 November 2010. His most recent gross monthly salary was CHF 20,000. On 29 August 2019, the company's internal ombudswoman...

Outsourcing occurs when a company wants to outsource a single business unit and mandate a third party to provide services that were previously rendered by its own employees.

In chapters 1-4 of our series "Business trips to Switzerland and the EU", we provided an overview of the most important aspects of international social security, taxes, work permits and reporting obligations.

The exponential spread of COVID-19 has forced governments and employers to take strict measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Among other things, governments are tracking...

Die Schweiz verhandelt zurzeit an der Seite der anderen EFTA-Staaten (Island, Liechtenstein und Norwegen) mit den Mercosur-Staaten bezüglich eines Freihandelsabkommens...

Die Wichtigkeit dieses Themas ergibt sich daraus, dass die Volksrepublik China der drittwichtigste Handelspartner der Schweiz ist und eine...

Public and private companies with 50 or more employees will soon be required to ensure that 4% of their workforce consists of Bahraini nationals with disabilities...

Project assignments usually entail several challenges, but when they take place abroad, there are also a number of other challenges...

Terminations present legal challenges for employers: Deadlines, formal requirements, protection rules, and risks such as wrongful termination must be considered.

We are sure every HR manager or supervisor has at some time been annoyed by this: as soon as the atmosphere in an employment relationship becomes problematic or a dismissal is imminent...

Due to the increasing spread of the coronavirus, numerous companies in Switzerland have already ordered home office work for their employees.

A U.S. IT specialist is employed by an international life sciences company headquartered in Berlin.

In Switzerland, electronic signatures lacking proper authentication are not legally binding when written form is required, rendering certain agreements unenforceable before courts and potentially leading to significant legal consequences.

In einem Entscheid hatte das Bundesgericht die Frage zu prüfen, ob und inwieweit es zulässig ist, in einem Arbeitsvertrag die Verletzung arbeitsvertraglicher Pflichten mit ei-ner Konventionalstrafe zu verknüpfen.

International assignments do not work on the fly.