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

¹ The em­ploy­er must al­low the em­ploy­ee one day off per week, gen­er­ally Sunday or, where cir­cum­stances do not per­mit this, a full week­day in­stead.

² In spe­cial cir­cum­stances, he may al­low the em­ploy­ee sev­er­al days off to­geth­er or two half-days in­stead of one full day, provided the em­ploy­ee con­sents to this.

³ In ad­di­tion, he must al­low the em­ploy­ee the cus­tom­ary hours and days off work and, once no­tice has been giv­en to ter­min­ate the em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship, the time re­quired to seek oth­er em­ploy­ment.

⁴ When de­term­in­ing time off work, due ac­count is to be taken of the in­terests of both em­ploy­er and em­ploy­ee.