Federal Act on Gender Equality

¹Or­gan­isa­tions that have been in ex­ist­ence for at least two years and that have as their ob­ject in terms of their art­icles of in­cor­por­a­tion the pro­mo­tion of gender equal­ity or safe­guard­ing the in­terests of em­ploy­ees may in their own names have a find­ing of dis­crim­in­a­tion de­clared if the prob­able out­come of pro­ceed­ings will have an ef­fect on a con­sid­er­able num­ber of jobs. They must al­low the em­ploy­er con­cerned the op­por­tun­ity to state his po­s­i­tion be­fore they in­sti­tute con­cili­ation pro­ceed­ings or bring an ac­tion.

²The pro­vi­sions on ac­tions and ap­peals by in­di­vidu­als also ap­ply by ana­logy.