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 SCC¹⁶⁵ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis MCC¹⁶⁶ or a leg­ally en­force­able ex­pul­sion or­der un­der Art­icle 68 FNIA¹⁶⁷ may be gain­fully em­ployed any­where in Switzer­land. In the case of salar­ied em­ploy­ment, the salary and em­ploy­ment con­di­tions cus­tom­ary for the loc­a­tion, pro­fes­sion and sec­tor must be com­plied with (Art.22 FNIA).¹⁶⁸

² The em­ploy­er must give no­tice of the start and end of salar­ied em­ploy­ment and any change of job to the can­ton­al au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the place of work in ad­vance. In the case of self-em­ployed work, no­tice must be giv­en by the per­son con­cerned. The pro­ced­ure for giv­ing no­tice is gov­erned by Art­icle 85apara­graphs 2–6 FNIA.¹⁶⁹

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