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

¹ If an em­ploy­ee is en­titled to carer’s al­low­ance un­der Art­icles 16n–16s of the Loss of Earn­ing Com­pens­a­tion Act (LE­CA) of 25 Septem­ber 1952¹⁴¹ be­cause his or her child’s health has been ser­i­ously im­paired by ill­ness or ac­ci­dent, he or she is en­titled to carer’s leave of a max­im­um of 14 weeks.

² The carer’s leave must be taken with­in a peri­od of 18 months. The peri­od be­gins on the day for which the first daily al­low­ance is claimed.

³ If both par­ents are in em­ploy­ment, each par­ent is en­titled to carer’s leave of a max­im­um of sev­en weeks. They may choose to ap­por­tion the leave in a dif­fer­ent way.

⁴ The leave may be taken in one stretch or on a day-to-day basis.

⁵ The em­ploy­er must be in­formed im­me­di­ately about the ar­range­ments made for tak­ing the leave and about any changes to these ar­range­ments.