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

¹ A col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract is a con­tract whereby em­ploy­ers or em­ploy­ers’ as­so­ci­ations and em­ploy­ees’ as­so­ci­ations jointly lay down clauses gov­ern­ing the con­clu­sion, nature and ter­min­a­tion of em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ships between the em­ploy­ers and in­di­vidu­al em­ploy­ees.

² The col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract may also con­tain oth­er clauses, provided they per­tain to the re­la­tion­ship between em­ploy­ers and em­ploy­ees or are lim­ited to the for­mu­la­tion of such clauses.

³ Fur­ther, the col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract may define the mu­tu­al rights and ob­lig­a­tions of the con­tract­ing parties and the mon­it­or­ing and en­force­ment of the clauses spe­cified in the pre­vi­ous para­graphs.

⁴ Where more than one em­ploy­ers’ as­so­ci­ation and/or em­ploy­ees’ as­so­ci­ation is bound by the col­lect­ive em­ploy­ment con­tract either from the out­set or as a res­ult of sub­sequent ac­ces­sion with the con­sent of the ori­gin­al con­tract­ing parties, they have equal rights and ob­lig­a­tions there­un­der and any con­trary agree­ment is void.