TIL: Agriculture is the only sector in Switzerland excluded from labour law and federal wage statistics. As a result, no one— not even the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco)—is officially responsible for monitoring the pay or working hours of seasonal labourers.

by BezugssystemCH1903

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  2. After all, the rules on ~~child labour~~ minimum age are adhered to, except for family businesses, as usual.

    >Thousands of people are employed in the Swiss agricultural sector. It is of great importance that orderly conditions prevail in their employment. The provisions of the Labour Act only apply to agriculture (primary production) as far as the provisions on minimum age are concerned. In agriculture, only the provisions of the Swiss Code of Obligations (OR) apply.

    https://www.bauern-sg.ch/de/Rechtsfragen/Arbeitsrecht

  3. Agricultural sector getting special treatment as usual.

    Notice how farmers are SVP-voters to a huge degree but don’t mind having foreigners working their field for terrible pay and with little to no labour protection measures.

  6. remember working at a farm (Schaffhausen) – summer job as a student in 2017

    6 days a week
    5 days 6am – 6pm
    6. day 6am-12 (I think)

    pay – 3200brutto

    so it would be around 13CHF/h

    (was a student from abroad, looked like a “good money opportunity”)

  7. > aber für diese Personen gebe es in der Schweiz keine Lobby.

    Nothing ever gets done in this country, unless you have a lobby.

    Or in this case: nothing ever gets done, because the other side has the *biggest* lobby in the country.

  8. I’m usually a big fan on shitting on the farmers lobby, but the situation in Switzerland is nothing compared to to the exploitative labor/slave-like conditions for farmworkers in Italy and Spain.

  10. There really should be a GAV for the Agriculture sector.

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