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

¹ Where the em­ploy­ee re­ceives be­ne­fits from an oc­cu­pa­tion­al be­ne­fits scheme, these may be de­duc­ted from the sev­er­ance al­low­ance to the ex­tent that they were fun­ded by the em­ploy­er either dir­ectly or through his con­tri­bu­tions to the oc­cu­pa­tion­al be­ne­fits scheme.²⁰⁹

² The em­ploy­er is like­wise re­leased from his ob­lig­a­tion to make a sev­er­ance al­low­ance to the ex­tent that he gives a bind­ing com­mit­ment to make fu­ture be­ne­fits con­tri­bu­tions on the em­ploy­ee’s be­half or has a third party give such a com­mit­ment.