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

¹ An ap­pren­tice­ship con­tract is val­id only if it is done in writ­ing.

² The con­tract must stip­u­late the nature and dur­a­tion of the vo­ca­tion­al train­ing, the salary, the pro­ba­tion peri­od, the work­ing hours and the hol­i­day en­ti­tle­ment.

³ The pro­ba­tion peri­od must be no less than one month and no longer than three months. Where not stip­u­lated by the parties in the con­tract, it is three months.

⁴ By agree­ment between the parties and with the con­sent of the can­ton­al au­thor­ity, the pro­ba­tion peri­od may ex­cep­tion­ally be ex­ten­ded be­fore its ex­piry to a fi­nal dur­a­tion of up to six months.

⁵ The con­tract may con­tain oth­er terms, in par­tic­u­lar re­gard­ing the sup­ply of work tools, con­tri­bu­tions to­wards the costs of board and lodgings, the pay­ment of in­sur­ance premi­ums and oth­er ob­lig­a­tions to be per­formed by the parties.

⁶ Any agree­ment re­strict­ing the ap­pren­tice’s free­dom to de­cide his vo­ca­tion­al activ­it­ies once the ap­pren­tice­ship is com­plete is void.