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

¹ The em­ploy­er must en­sure that the vo­ca­tion­al train­ing is su­per­vised by a spe­cial­ist with the ne­ces­sary pro­fes­sion­al skills and per­son­al qual­it­ies.

² He must without de­duct­ing any salary al­low the ap­pren­tice the time re­quired to at­tend tech­nic­al col­lege and take in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary courses and to sit the vo­ca­tion­al ex­am­in­a­tions on com­ple­tion of the ap­pren­tice­ship.

³ While the ap­pren­tice is still un­der the age of 20, the em­ploy­er must grant him a hol­i­day en­ti­tle­ment of at least five weeks per year of ap­pren­tice­ship.

⁴ He may al­loc­ate work out­side the rel­ev­ant vo­ca­tion­al field and piece work to the ap­pren­tice only in­so­far as such work is re­lated to the vo­ca­tion in which the ap­pren­tice is be­ing in­struc­ted and the train­ing is not thereby im­paired.