The Swiss government has adopted a package of measures to protect Swiss wages, should the new agreements negotiated with the European Union (EU) come into force. Fourteen measures are to be included in a consultation draft for the overall package with the EU; social partners and cantons have agreed on 13 of these measures. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The measures agreed upon by the social partners and the cantons in February have since been successfully finalised, Economics Minister Guy Parmelin told reporters on Friday. The social partners have now agreed on further measures based on the government's proposals. Securing collective agreements According to Parmelin, these measures safeguard the existence of the collective agreements that have now been declared generally binding by means of adjustments to the so-called quorums. In addition, legal protection for domestic companies that are to be subject to a generally binding collective agreement is to ...
