Employment Law & Social Security
Our team’s extensive wealth of experience covers the entire spectrum of employment and labour law matters, including social security, migration and data protection law aspects.
We focus on corporate restructuring, termination of employment and drafting of employment contracts and regulations. In terms of litigation, we have particular experience in disputes regarding termination of employment and bonus payments. Our team’s social security law expertise enables us to provide comprehensive advice on HR matters from a single source.
We attach great importance to pragmatic and solution-oriented advice and support you in finding sustainable and tailor-made solutions.
We are happy to advise you in all personnel-related matters and assist you before courts and authorities. Our global network of personally tested and proven experts enables us to provide efficient advice and support in cross-border matters as well.
Our team offers you access to experts in the following areas in particular:
Our team assists you in all employment and labour law matters, from hiring to termination of employment, including representation before courts and authorities.
MoreAs the only large business law firm in Switzerland with a qualified expert in social security, we cover all interfaces between employment and social security law.
MoreAdvice in connection with cross-border activities is part of our everyday business. You benefit from our expert knowledge in the field of immigration law and our excellent relationships with the responsible authorities.
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Team
- Sergio Bortolani
- Sabina B. Schellenberg
- Marcel C. Steinegger
- Cosima Trabichet-Castan
- Julie Wynne
- Nadine von Büren-Maier
- Ülkü Cibik
- Martin Ammann
- Felix M. Mathis
- Guy-Philippe Rubeli
- Mimoza Ademaj
- Hannah Cipriano-Favre
- Yannik Hässig
- Matthias Leemann
- Andrea Müller
- David Peter
- Maeve Romano
- Polia Rusca
- Christian Schilly
- Andrea Trost
- Daisy Vacher
- Vital Lüthi
- Mladen Naskovic
- Mark-Anthony Schwestermann
“The mandate was very successful because the team was very professional, very responsive and very sympathetic in a very difficult situation”
Publications
Kündigungsschutz und Lohnschutz bei krankheitsbedingter Arbeitsverhinderung
Anwaltsrevue, Ausgabe 1/2024, S. 10- DE
Leitung Workshop zu Massenentlassung und Sozialplan
Fachanwaltstage 2023, Fachanwälte SAV Arbeitsrecht, Leitung Workshop zu Massenentlassung und Sozialplan, 11. November 2023- DE
Home-Office – Ausgewählte Aspekte
Tagungsleitung, EXPERTsuisse – Aktuelles aus Arbeitsrecht und Sozialversicherungen, 30. Juni 2022- DE
The Labour and Employment Disputes Review: Switzerland
Switzerland Chapter in The Labour and Employment Disputes Review; 6th edition, 2023- EN
Firm News
Thomas Kälin | Jahresseminar 2024 SVS Region Nord-Ostschweiz | Arbeitsrechtliche Fragen bei Delikten | Uto Kulm Zürich | 22. März 2024
Event: HR-Circle | 21. März 2024
Event: HR-Circle | 21. September 2023
MLL Legal recognized as leading law firm in Leaders League’s Switzerland 2023 Guide
40 MLL Legal lawyers recognised for Best Lawyers® 2024 award
News Portal
The Impact of the Revision of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection on Employment Law – The Most Important Questions and Answers
On 1 September 2023, the revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) will enter into force. The FADP regulates various new obligations for companies with regard to data processing and also provides for stricter sanctions in the event of breaches of obligations. To what extent the revised FADP will also affect the handling of job applicants› and employees› data is explained below in the form of a brief overview (without claim to completeness).
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The people say yes to the introduction of minimum wages in the cities of Winterthur and Zurich
On 18 June 2023, voters in the cities of Winterthur and Zurich approved the introduction of a minimum wage. Provided that the initiatives can actually be implemented, a minimum wage will in principle be applicable in both cities in the future. In Winterthur this is to be at least CHF 23 per hour and in Zurich at least CHF 23.90 per hour. Extrapolated to a full-time workload, this would correspond to around CHF 4,100 to CHF 4,300 per month. In the city of Zurich in particular, however, it is currently still open whether this minimum wage will actually enter into force as planned.
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Facilitation regarding the social security status in the area of home office/telework abroad in international constellations
Under certain conditions and based on a multilateral agreement, it will from 1 July 2023 be easier for employers domiciled in Switzerland to allow employees domiciled in certain EU/EFTA countries to work from home to a greater extent, without this leading to a change of the applicable social security scheme. In particular, it will be possible for cross-border commuters from Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein to work outside Switzerland for up to 49.9% of their working time without this having any effect on their social security status in Switzerland. However, the agreement still has to be signed by the participating countries.
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Employment Law – A Brief Summary of the Most Recent Decisions of The Swiss Federal Court 2021
This article contains a brief summary of the most recent decisions of the Swiss Federal Court in the field of Swiss employment law, covering several key issues, including questions relating to the employee’s personality rights as well as those relating to the termination of employment contracts. It aims mainly to give professionals in this sector an overview of the latest developments in case law as well as practical guidelines for the decisions to be taken in this respect.
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Certificate Requirement at the Workplace?
As of 13 September 2021, employers are entitled to examine whether their employees hold a Covid certificate. What employers have to consider when introducing such a certificate requirement verification and which measures must be implemented precisely, is explained in our post.
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