Post by Roland Erne

Professor of European Integration and Employment Relations

In 2025, the Swiss bipartite and tripartite commissions of the trade unions, the employers associations and the regional governments against wage dumping controlled 38'500 enterprises — effectively enforcing the “Equal Pay for Equal Work at the Same Place” principle for hundred thousands of workers. The Swiss social flanking measures guaranteeing both social justice and the free movement of workers were essential in the rejection of an anti-immigration proposal at last Sunday’s referendum on an far right initiative by 55% of Swiss voters

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