Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ Per­sons to whom Switzer­land has gran­ted asylum or whom Switzer­land has tem­por­ar­ily ad­mit­ted as refugees and refugees sub­ject to a leg­ally en­force­able ex­pul­sion or­der un­der Art­icle 66a or 66a^bis SCC¹⁶³ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis MCC¹⁶⁴ or a leg­ally en­force­able ex­pul­sion or­der un­der Art­icle 68 FNIA¹⁶⁵ may be gain­fully em­ployed any­where in Switzer­land provided salary and em­ploy­ment con­di­tions cus­tom­ary for the loc­a­tion, pro­fes­sion and sec­tor are sat­is­fied (Art.22 FNIA).¹⁶⁶

² The em­ploy­er must re­port the start, end or change of em­ploy­ment to the can­ton­al au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the place of work in ad­vance. The re­port­ing pro­ced­ure is gov­erned by Art­icle 85apara­graphs 2–6 FNIA.

³ Para­graph 2 does not ap­ply to re­cog­nised refugees who hold a per­man­ent res­id­ence per­mit.