The following changes, among others, came into force with the new law...

In our current practice, we deal with this topic on a daily basis, which has prompted us to provide a brief overview.

Working across international borders and frequent business trips combined have become the norm for globally operating companies.

EasyGov.swiss is the Swiss Federal Administration's central e-government platform for businesses and service providers. It brings together numerous notification, authorisation and registration procedures, such as work and residence notifications, UID-registration requests and notification requirements for cross-border employment.

In our previous episodes, we looked at the situation of people who live abroad and are employed in Switzerland.

In this alert, we discuss remuneration elements during an assignment. Allowances during an assignment are a central component of the remuneration policy for assignments.

The Vietnamese government issued Resolution 105/NQ-CP on September 9 to support businesses affected by Vietnam's fourth wave of the pandemic.

Am 14. August 2025 unterzeichnete der chinesische Ministerpräsident Li Qiang einen Erlass des Staatsrats, mit dem Änderungen der Vorschriften der Volksrepublik China über die Ein- und Ausreise von Ausländern verkündet wurden. Zu den Änderungen gehört die Aufnahme des K-Visums in die Liste der gewöhnlichen Visumkategorien

The Swiss federal government has completely lifted the contact quarantine as of February 3, 2022. Contact quarantine had recently become less important due to extremely high infection rates in Switzerland.

Due to the COVID-19-pandemic, many companies are increasingly confronted with the wishes of their employees to work remotely from abroad for an extended period.

Due to the political situation and the war in Ukraine, the European Commission has decided to lift the visa facilitation for Russian citizens as of September 12, 2022.

In light of the latest developments in Ukraine regarding the Russian invasion, currently Poland (Schengen & EU member state), Hungary (Schengen & EU member state), Moldova (neither Schengen nor EU member state) and ...

The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently published a resolution extending the deadline for affected holders of a permanent residence visa (R visa) to exchange it for a new visa until October 31, 2026.

As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the unemployment rate in Switzerland increased in 2021 and 2022, which is why the Swiss Federal Council had made additional types of occupations...

U.S.: All vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers must present a negative COVID-19 viral test prior to air travel or travel instead with proof of COVID-19 recovery...

Als wirtschaftlicher Arbeitgeber gilt ein Unternehmen, das das Weisungs- und Kontrollrecht bezüglich der Arbeit eines Arbeitnehmers besitzt und welches den wirtschaftlichen Nutzen an der Arbeitsleistung hat.

Erfahrungsgemäss schneiden die Schweizer Behörden im Vergleich mit den Nachbarländern bei den Bearbeitungszeiten von Anträgen im Bereich der öffentlichen Verwaltung gut ab.

In practice, we have noticed that the existing deposit requirement for assignments to Switzerland in various sectors is also an aspect that is sometimes somewhat neglected.

Article 50 of the Swiss Foreign Nationals and Integration Act (AIG) stipulates that after the dissolution of the marriage or the family partnership, the spouse and the children are still entitled...

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