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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and each can­ton shall es­tab­lish a tri­part­ite com­mis­sion con­sist­ing of an equal num­ber of em­ploy­ers’ and em­ploy­ees’ rep­res­ent­at­ives in ad­di­tion to rep­res­ent­at­ives of the state.

² Em­ploy­ers’ and em­ploy­ees’ as­so­ci­ations have the right to put for­ward can­did­ates for se­lec­tion as their rep­res­ent­at­ives with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 1.

³ The com­mis­sions mon­it­or the la­bour mar­ket. If they ob­serve ab­us­ive prac­tices with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 360a para­graph 1, they nor­mally seek to reach agree­ment dir­ectly with the em­ploy­ers con­cerned. Where this can­not be achieved with­in two months, they pe­ti­tion the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity to is­sue a stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract fix­ing a min­im­um wage for the af­fected sec­tors or oc­cu­pa­tions.

⁴ If la­bour mar­ket con­di­tions in the af­fected sec­tors change, the tri­part­ite com­mis­sion pe­ti­tions the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity to amend or res­cind the stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract.

⁵ To en­able them to dis­charge their re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, the tri­part­ite com­mis­sions have the right to ob­tain in­form­a­tion and in­spect any busi­ness doc­u­ment ne­ces­sary to the con­duct of their in­vest­ig­a­tion. In the event of a dis­pute, a rul­ing is giv­en by a body spe­cially ap­poin­ted for this pur­pose by the Con­fed­er­a­tion or the can­ton, as ap­plic­able.

⁶ Where ne­ces­sary for the con­duct of their in­vest­ig­a­tions, on ap­plic­a­tion the tri­part­ite com­mis­sions may ob­tain per­son­al data con­tained in cor­por­ate col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tracts from the Fed­er­al Stat­ist­ic­al Of­fice.²¹⁷