{"id":28656,"date":"2026-03-10T00:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28656\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:49:20","slug":"switzerlands-geneva-approves-lower-minimum-wage-for-summer-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28656\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland\u2019s Geneva Approves Lower Minimum Wage for Summer Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland\u2019s canton of Geneva approved March 8 changes to the canton\u2019s labor laws that introduce a lower minimum wage for students working summer jobs, unofficial election results showed.<\/p>\n<p>The changes to the canton\u2019s Law on Labor Inspection and Relations passed with 60.61% of the vote, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ge.ch\/votations\/20260308\/cantonal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a> (French).<\/p>\n<p>The amendments require students registered at a school or university who work up to 60 days in a year during their holidays to be paid at least 75% of Geneva\u2019s hourly minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, the lower standard minimum wage would be 18.07 Swiss francs per hour (US$23.18), based on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland\u2019s canton of Geneva approved March 8 changes to the canton\u2019s labor laws that introduce a lower minimum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17367,65,17365,17369,17368,17370,17366],"class_list":{"0":"post-28656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-election-results","9":"tag-geneva","10":"tag-international-payroll-administration","11":"tag-minimum-wage","12":"tag-non-u-s-elections","13":"tag-non-u-s-employment-legislation","14":"tag-non-u-s-payroll-administration"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116202134816138852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}