HR glossary
Plain answers to the Swiss HR and employment-law terms that come up when you hire.
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- 13th Month Salary (13. Monatslohn)
- Absence Rate (Absenzenquote)
- Abusive Dismissal
- Active Sourcing
- Adoption Leave (Adoptionsurlaub)
- Age Discrimination in Hiring
- AHV (Old-Age and Survivors Insurance)
- AHV Contribution Rates for Employers
- AI Interview
- Akkordlohn (Piece-Rate Pay)
- ALV: Unemployment Insurance in Switzerland
- Applicants per Opening
- Aptitude Test (Eignungstest)
- Arbeitsgesetz (Swiss Labour Act)
- Arbeitsplatzbeschreibung vs Stellenbeschreibung: What Swiss employers need to know
- Arbeitsprobe (Work Sample Test)
- Arbeitszeugnis (Work Reference Letter)
- Arztzeugnis (Medical Certificate)
- Assessment Center
- ATS — Applicant Tracking System
- B Permit (Aufenthaltsbewilligung)
- Background Check Limits in Switzerland
- Basler Skala (Continued Pay Scale)
- Berner Skala: Swiss Continued Pay Scale
- Betreibungsregisterauszug: When You Can Request It
- Betriebliche Mitwirkung (Employee Participation)
- Betriebsferien (Company Holidays)
- Bewerbungsdossier: Your Legal Obligation to Manage Candidate Files
- Bonus and Gratifikation in Swiss Employment Law
- Boolean Search for Sourcing
- Break Rules (Pausenregelung)
- Bridge Days (Brückentage)
- Bruttolohn (Gross Salary)
- BUV — Occupational Accident Insurance
- BVG / Pensionskasse (Occupational Pension)
- BVG Coordination Deduction
- BVG Entry Threshold
- C Permit (Niederlassungsbewilligung)
- Candidate Database (Bewerberdatenbank)
- Candidate Experience
- Candidate Outreach
- Canton Bern Employment Rules: What Employers Need to Know
- Canton Ticino Employment Rules
- Canton Zug Employment Rules: What Employers Must Know
- Canton Zürich Employment Rules
- Care Leave (Betreuungsurlaub)
- Coded Language in an Arbeitszeugnis
- Compensating Overtime with Time Off
- Competency Model
- Competency-based Interview
- Cost per Hire
- Criminal Record Extract (Strafregisterauszug) — When You May Request It
- Data Processing Agreement (Auftragsbearbeitung)
- Data Protection in Recruiting (revDSG)
- Disability Insurance (IV)
- Discrimination in hiring — what you may not ask
- Dismissal with Altered Terms (Änderungskündigung)
- Diversity Recruiting in Switzerland
- Does a termination have to be in writing in Switzerland?
- EDÖB: The Swiss Data Protection Commissioner
- EKAS Guidelines
- Employee Monitoring — What Is Allowed in Switzerland
- Employee Referral Programme
- Employee Retention
- Employee Satisfaction
- Employer Branding
- Employment Confirmation (Arbeitsbestätigung)
- Employment Contract (Arbeitsvertrag)
- Employment Rules Specific to Basel-Stadt
- Employment Rules Specific to Canton Geneva
- Employment Rules Specific to Canton Vaud
- eNPS (Employee Net Promoter Score)
- EO (Loss of Earnings Compensation)
- Equal Pay Analysis (Lohngleichheitsanalyse)
- Exit Interview
- Fachkräftemangel (Skills Shortage)
- Family Allowances (Familienzulagen)
- Final Payroll Settlement (Schlussabrechnung)
- Fixed-Term Contract (Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag)
- Full-time employment (Vollzeit)
- G Permit / Grenzgänger (Cross-Border Commuter)
- Garden Leave (Freistellung)
- GAV – Collective Bargaining Agreement
- GDPR for Swiss Employers
- Gender Equality Act (Gleichstellungsgesetz)
- Giving a Reason for Rejection
- Gleitzeit (flexitime)
- Headcount Planning
- Headhunting
- Hiring Scorecard
- Hiring Third-Country Nationals in Switzerland
- Holiday Entitlement (Ferienanspruch)
- Holiday Entitlement Reduction (Ferienkürzung)
- Holiday Pay Supplement (Ferienentschädigung)
- Homeoffice Rules for Swiss Employers
- How Long to Keep Applicant Data
- Inclusive Hiring and Disability
- InMail Outreach
- Insolvency Compensation
- Interim Reference (Zwischenzeugnis)
- Interview Guide
- IV-Früherfassung (Early Detection)
- Job Ad Costs in Switzerland
- Job Advertisement (Stellenanzeige)
- Job Description (Stellenbeschreibung)
- Job Interview (Vorstellungsgespräch)
- Job Registration Duty (Stellenmeldepflicht)
- Job-Room: Switzerland's Federal Job Platform
- Jobsharing
- KTG: Sickness Daily Allowance Insurance
- Kurzarbeit (Short-Time Work)
- L Permit (Kurzaufenthaltsbewilligung)
- Labour Market Priority (Arbeitsmarktliche Vorrang)
- Language Levels (A1–C2) in Job Ads
- Leave for a Death in the Family
- Lehrstelle (Apprenticeship): Employer Obligations in Switzerland
- Lohnfortzahlung: Your Obligation to Pay During Sick Leave
- Lohnnebenkosten (Employer On-Costs)
- Marriage Leave (Heiratsurlaub)
- Mass Redundancy (Massenentlassung)
- Maternity Allowance (Mutterschaftsentschädigung)
- Maternity Leave (Mutterschaftsurlaub)
- Maximum Working Hours (Höchstarbeitszeit)
- Measuring Productivity with Remote Teams
- Militärdienst: Swiss Military Service and Your Employment Obligations
- Minimum Wage by Canton
- Minimum Wage in Geneva
- Minimum Wage in Neuchâtel
- Minimum wage in Ticino
- Mobbing and Your Duty of Care as an Employer
- Motivationsschreiben (Cover Letter)
- Nachtarbeit (Night Work)
- Naturallohn: Payment in Kind
- NAV — Standard Employment Contract
- NBU — Non-Occupational Accident Insurance
- NDA / Confidentiality Agreement
- Net Salary (Nettolohn)
- Non-Compete Clause (Konkurrenzverbot)
- Notice Period (Kündigungsfrist)
- Objectives Agreement (Zielvereinbarung)
- Occupational Safety (Arbeitssicherheit)
- Offboarding
- Offer Acceptance Rate
- On-Call Duty (Pikettdienst)
- Onboarding: Integrating New Employees into Your Company
- Organigramm (Org Chart)
- Parental Leave (Elternurlaub) in Switzerland
- Part-time work (Teilzeit)
- Passive Candidates
- Paternity Leave (Vaterschaftsurlaub)
- Pauschalspesen (Lump-Sum Expenses)
- Paying out remaining holiday on exit
- Payslip (Lohnabrechnung)
- Pensum (Workload Percentage)
- Performance Review (Mitarbeitergespräch)
- Permanent Contract (Unbefristeter Arbeitsvertrag)
- Personality Tests in Swiss Hiring
- Personnel File (Personaldossier)
- Phone Screen (Telefoninterview)
- Posting of Workers (Entsendung)
- Posting on jobs.ch
- Praktikum (Internship) Rules in Switzerland
- Pregnancy protection at work
- Privacy Notice for Applicants
- Probezeit (Probation Period)
- Prohibited Interview Questions in Switzerland
- Protection Against Dismissal (Kündigungsschutz)
- Provision (Commission Pay)
- Public Holidays by Canton (Feiertage)
- Quality of Hire
- Quellensteuer (Withholding Tax)
- Quellensteuer Tariff Codes
- Questions You Cannot Ask in a Swiss Job Interview
- Questions You May Not Ask in a Job Interview
- RAV / ORP / URC: Regional Employment Centre
- Recognition of Foreign Diplomas
- Record of Processing Activities (Bearbeitungsverzeichnis)
- Recruiting Funnel
- Recruiting Funnel Conversion Rate
- Recruiting KPIs Worth Tracking
- Recruiting on LinkedIn in Switzerland
- Recruiting on XING for the DACH Market
- Recruitment Agency (Personalvermittlung)
- Reference Check
- Reimbursing Candidate Travel Costs
- Rejection Letter (Absageschreiben)
- Remote Work Agreement (Homeoffice-Vereinbarung)
- Requirements Profile (Anforderungsprofil)
- Return to Work After Long-Term Illness
- Returning to Work After Long-Term Illness
- Returning to Work After Long-Term Illness
- revDSG — Revised Swiss Data Protection Act
- Right of Access (Auskunftsrecht) under revDSG
- Right to Erasure for Candidate Data
- Ruhezeit (Rest Periods)
- Salary Certificate (Lohnausweis)
- Salary Progression (Lohnentwicklung)
- Severance Pay (Abgangsentschädigung)
- Sexual Harassment — Employer Obligations in Switzerland
- Shift Work (Schichtarbeit)
- Short-time Work Compensation (Kurzarbeitsentschädigung)
- Sick Leave and Work Incapacity (Krankheit und Arbeitsunfähigkeit)
- Sickness Daily Allowance (Krankentaggeld)
- Simplified Time Tracking (Vereinfachte Arbeitszeiterfassung)
- Situational Interview
- Skill Gap Analysis
- Source of hire
- Speculative Application (Blindbewerbung)
- Sperrfrist: Protected Period Against Dismissal
- Spesen (Expense Reimbursement)
- Staff Leasing (Personalverleih) and the AVG
- Staff Regulations (Personalreglement)
- Stating German Language Requirements in a Swiss Job Ad
- Stellenprozent (FTE percentage)
- Stillzeit (Breastfeeding Time at Work)
- Stress Interview: Definition and Why Swiss Employers Should Avoid It
- Structured Interview
- Structured Interview
- Stundenlohn and Holiday Supplement
- Succession Planning
- Summary Dismissal (Fristlose Kündigung)
- Sunday Work (Sonntagsarbeit)
- SUVA and Employer Duties in Switzerland
- Swiss Code of Obligations (Obligationenrecht) and Employment
- Talent Pool
- Temporary Work (Temporärarbeit)
- Terminating a Pregnant Employee
- Terminating an Employee on Sick Leave
- Terminating During Probezeit
- Termination Agreement (Aufhebungsvertrag)
- Time Recording Obligation (Arbeitszeiterfassung)
- Time to Fill
- Time to Hire
- Trial Work Day (Probearbeit)
- Turnover Rate (Fluktuationsrate)
- Überstunden (Overtime)
- Überzeit (Excess Working Time)
- Umzugstag (Moving Day Leave)
- Unconscious Bias in Hiring
- Unpaid Leave (Unbezahlter Urlaub)
- UVG: Mandatory Accident Insurance for Employees
- Video Interview
- Video Surveillance at the Workplace
- Wage Garnishment (Lohnpfändung)
- Wage Withholding (Lohnrückbehalt)
- Waiver of Work-Time Recording
- Weiterbildung (Continuing Education) and Payment Obligation
- When an Employee Can Demand an Arbeitszeugnis
- Which Occupations Fall Under Stellenmeldepflicht?
- Whistleblowing in Swiss Companies
- Work Permit Quotas (Kontingente)
- Workforce Planning (Personalbedarfsplanung)
- Workplace Health Management
- Workplace Health Management
- Zürcher Skala: Continued Pay During Incapacity