Minimum Wages: Uniform Regulation Instead of Cantonal Freedoms?

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Overall employment contracts should take precedence over minimum wages. That is what the competent Council of State Commission wants.

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It is necessary to protect the social partnership from erosion, the relevant committee of the Council of States, which supports the primacy of the CTC. Geneva and Neuchâtel could nevertheless keep their systemThe collective labour agreements (CCT) must take precedence over cantonal laws on minimum wages.After the National, the Committee on Economy and Royalties of the Council of States approves a draft of the Federal Council to this effect, whic…

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Collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) must take precedence over cantonal laws regarding minimum wages. Following the National Council, the Economic Affairs and Taxation Committee of the Council of States has approved a Federal Council proposal to this effect.