Ordinance
on the National Languages and Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Ordinance, LangO)

(Art. 20 para. 1 LangA and Art. 4 para. 2 let. e^bis FPA¹²)

¹ The em­ploy­ers re­ferred to in Art­icle 6 para­graph 1 shall en­sure that:

a.

all em­ploy­ees have the or­al and writ­ten skills in a second of­fi­cial lan­guage re­quired for per­form­ing their du­ties;

b.

all middle man­age­ment em­ploy­ees have good act­ive know­ledge of at least a second of­fi­cial lan­guage and, where pos­sible, pass­ive know­ledge of a third of­fi­cial lan­guage;

c.

all seni­or man­age­ment em­ploy­ees and all middle man­age­ment em­ploy­ees with team lead­er­ship re­spons­ib­il­it­ies have good act­ive know­ledge of at least a second of­fi­cial lan­guage and pass­ive know­ledge of a third of­fi­cial lan­guage.

² Em­ploy­ers shall of­fer their em­ploy­ees French, Ger­man and Itali­an lan­guage courses.

³ If a mem­ber of man­age­ment does not have the re­quired lan­guage skills when re­cruited, the em­ploy­er shall take the meas­ures ne­ces­sary to im­prove their skills with­in one year of re­cruit­ment.

⁴Train­ing re­quired for ac­quir­ing lan­guage skills is con­sidered to be train­ing which meets the needs of the ser­vice with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 4 para­graph 4 of the FPersO¹³.