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

¹ Where the wages that are cus­tom­ary for a geo­graph­ic­al area, oc­cu­pa­tion or in­dustry are re­peatedly and un­fairly un­der­cut with­in a par­tic­u­lar oc­cu­pa­tion or eco­nom­ic sec­tor and there is no col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract lay­ing down a min­im­um wage that may be de­clared uni­ver­sally bind­ing, on ap­plic­a­tion by the tri­part­ite com­mis­sion as defined in Art­icle 360b,the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may is­sue a fixed-term stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract provid­ing for a min­im­um wage var­ied by re­gion and, where ap­plic­able, by loc­al­ity in or­der to com­bat or pre­vent ab­us­ive prac­tices.

² The min­im­um wage must not con­flict with the pub­lic in­terest or pre­ju­dice the le­git­im­ate in­terests of oth­er eco­nom­ic sec­tors or sec­tions of the pop­u­la­tion. It must have due re­gard to the minor­ity in­terests of the eco­nom­ic sec­tors or oc­cu­pa­tions con­cerned that stem from re­gion­al and busi­ness di­versity.

³ In the case of re­peated in­fringe­ments of the pro­vi­sions on the min­im­um wage in a stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 or if there is evid­ence that no longer us­ing the stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract may lead to fur­ther ab­us­ive prac­tices in terms of para­graph 1, at the re­quest of the tri­part­ite com­mis­sion, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may ex­tend the stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract for a lim­ited peri­od.²¹⁵