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I am subject to a collective agreement
Collective labour agreements (CLAs) establish minimum conditions (salary, holidays, working hours) for a sector or company (art. 356 CO). Some CLAs are declared of mandatory application (extended) by the Federal Council and apply to all employers in the…
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# Applicable Legal Provisions
- I'm ready to translate Swiss legal text into English, preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders. I will also use the preferred glossary you've provided: - formal notice => formal notice - payment order => payment order - lease agreement => lease agreement However, I notice that the text to translate appears to be missing or only contains "CO 356" as a placeholder. Please provide the actual Swiss legal text you would like me to translate, and I will deliver the translation while maintaining all the specified elements. — Collective bargaining agreement — definition
- I'm ready to translate Swiss legal text into English while preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders exactly as they appear. I note your preferred glossary: - formal notice => formal notice - payment order => payment order - lease agreement => lease agreement However, I notice that the text to translate is only "CO 357", which is a protected token. Since this token must be preserved exactly, the translation is: CO 357 Please provide the full text you would like me to translate. — Effects on the parties
Critical Deadlines
- Identification of the applicable collective labour agreement — immediate
- Application request to the employer — in the 30 days following the identification (CO 356 / CO 357)
- Deadline for Compliance — I'm ready to translate Swiss legal text into English using your preferred glossary: - formal notice => formal notice - payment order => payment order - lease agreement => lease agreement However, I notice that the text to be translated only contains "30 days", which is a protected token placeholder with no actual content to translate. Please provide the actual Swiss legal text you would like me to translate, and I will apply your preferred glossary terms while preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders exactly as they appear.
- Referral to the joint commission or labour tribunal — 5 years (limitation period for salary claims CO 128) (CO 357 / CO 128 / CPC 197 et seq.)
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