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

¹ Where by con­tract the em­ploy­ee car­ries out piece work for a single em­ploy­er, the lat­ter must al­loc­ate a suf­fi­cient quant­ity of work to him.

² The em­ploy­er may al­loc­ate time work to the em­ploy­ee where through no fault of his own the em­ploy­er is un­able to al­loc­ate piece work as con­trac­tu­ally agreed or where time work is tem­por­ar­ily re­quired for op­er­a­tion­al reas­ons.

³ If the rate of pay for such time work is not fixed by in­di­vidu­al agree­ment, stand­ard em­ploy­ment con­tract or col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract, the em­ploy­er must pay the em­ploy­ee the av­er­age salary he pre­vi­ously earned on a piece work basis.

⁴ An em­ploy­er who is un­able to al­loc­ate suf­fi­cient piece work or time work re­mains non­ethe­less ob­liged pur­su­ant to the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing fail­ure to ac­cept per­form­ance to pay the salary that he would have paid for time work.