Asylum Act

¹While stay­ing in fed­er­al centres, asylum seekers may not be gain­fully em­ployed.¹

^1bisThe ad­di­tion­al re­quire­ments for au­thor­ising gain­ful em­ploy­ment are gov­erned by the Fed­er­al Act of 16 Decem­ber 2005² on For­eign Na­tion­als (FNIA).³

²If an ap­plic­a­tion for asylum is re­jec­ted in a leg­ally bind­ing de­cision, au­thor­isa­tion for gain­ful em­ploy­ment ex­pires on ex­piry of the peri­od spe­cified for de­par­ture, even if an ex­traordin­ary leg­al rem­edy has been ap­plied for and the en­force­ment of re­mov­al has been sus­pen­ded. If SEM ex­tends the de­par­ture peri­od as part of the or­din­ary pro­ced­ure, gain­ful em­ploy­ment may con­tin­ue to be au­thor­ised. Gain­ful em­ploy­ment may not be au­thor­ised dur­ing pro­ceed­ings un­der Art­icle 111c.⁴

³The FD­JP may, in agree­ment with the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, Edu­ca­tion and Re­search au­thor­ise the can­tons to ex­tend per­mits for cer­tain cat­egor­ies of per­sons to be gain­fully em­ployed bey­ond the ex­piry of the de­par­ture peri­od, provided spe­cial cir­cum­stances jus­ti­fy this. This also ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis to asylum pro­ceed­ings un­der Art­icle 111c.⁵

^3bisThe Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue a tem­por­ary ban on em­ploy­ment for cer­tain groups of asylum seekers.⁶

⁴Asylum seekers who are en­titled to be gain­fully em­ployed in ac­cord­ance with the im­mig­ra­tion pro­vi­sions or who par­ti­cip­ate in oc­cu­pa­tion­al pro­grammes are not sub­ject to the ban on em­ploy­ment.⁷