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

¹ The em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship may be ter­min­ated at one month’s no­tice dur­ing the first year of ser­vice, at two months’ no­tice in the second to ninth years of ser­vice and at three months’ no­tice there­after, all such no­tice to ex­pire at the end of a cal­en­dar month.

² These no­tice peri­ods may be var­ied by writ­ten in­di­vidu­al, stand­ard or col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract; however, they may be re­duced to less than one month only by col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract and only for the first year of ser­vice.

³ If the em­ploy­er ter­min­ates the em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship and if the em­ploy­ee is en­titled to pa­tern­ity leave in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 329gbe­fore the end of the em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship, the peri­od of no­tice of ter­min­a­tion shall be ex­ten­ded by the num­ber of days of pa­tern­ity leave not yet taken.¹⁷⁹