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

¹ An em­ploy­er in­tend­ing to make mass re­dund­an­cies must con­sult the or­gan­isa­tion that rep­res­ents the em­ploy­ees or, where there is none, the em­ploy­ees them­selves.

² He must give them at least an op­por­tun­ity to for­mu­late pro­pos­als on how to avoid such re­dund­an­cies or lim­it their num­ber and how to mit­ig­ate their con­sequences.

³ He must fur­nish the or­gan­isa­tion that rep­res­ents the em­ploy­ees or, where there is none, the em­ploy­ees them­selves with all ap­pro­pri­ate in­form­a­tion and in any event must in­form them in writ­ing of:

a.

the reas­ons for the mass re­dund­an­cies;

b.

the num­ber of em­ploy­ees to whom no­tice has been giv­en;

c.

the num­ber of em­ploy­ees nor­mally em­ployed in the busi­ness;

d.

the peri­od in which he plans to is­sue the no­tices of ter­min­a­tion.

⁴ He must for­ward a copy of the in­form­a­tion stip­u­lated in para­graph 3 to the can­ton­al em­ploy­ment of­fice.