Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

¹ Dur­ing each year of ser­vice the em­ploy­er must grant em­ploy­ees un­der the age of 30 leave of up to one work­ing week for the pur­pose of car­ry­ing out un­paid lead­er­ship, care or ad­vis­ory activ­it­ies in con­nec­tion with ex­tra­cur­ricular youth work for cul­tur­al or so­cial or­gan­isa­tions and for re­lated ini­tial and on­go­ing train­ing.

² The em­ploy­ee has no salary en­ti­tle­ment dur­ing such leave for youth work. An in­di­vidu­al agree­ment, stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract or col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract may provide oth­er­wise to the em­ploy­ee’s be­ne­fit.

³ The em­ploy­er and em­ploy­ee should agree on the tim­ing and dur­a­tion of leave for youth work, hav­ing due re­gard for each oth­er’s in­terests. Where they can­not reach agree­ment, such leave must be gran­ted on con­di­tion that the em­ploy­ee gives two months’ ad­vance no­tice of his in­ten­tion to ex­er­cise his right. Any leave for youth work not taken by the end of the cal­en­dar year is for­feited.

⁴ At the em­ploy­er’s re­quest, the em­ploy­ee must fur­nish proof of the activ­it­ies and func­tions he has car­ried out in re­la­tion to youth work.