Job Registration Requirement – Priority Of Local Workers

On February 9 2014 the Swiss people voted in favour of a popular initiative introducing Article 121a of the Federal Constitution, which aimed to control mass immigration, thereby expressing support for a change to Switzerland's immigration policy. The initiative required the Federal Council and Parliament to introduce a new admission system for all foreign nationals that restricts immigration by means of quantitative limits and quotas and gives priority to local workers.

Job registration requirement

On December 8 2017, after much political debate and various consultations with different stakeholders, the Federal Council decided on how to implement the new admission system in order to exercise immigration control without conflicting with the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons between Switzerland and the European Union. The new regulations primarily introduce a job registration requirement for job types in which the unemployment rate throughout Switzerland has