White Paper – Flexibility and Social Partnership: Key characteristics of a liberal labor market
Switzerland's liberal labor market is a model of success: it is the core of Switzerland's competitive ability and serves as a guarantee of long-term low unemployment. From an international point of view, the liberal labor market and the extensive social system are an accomplishment that combines the advantages of the American and European economic systems. Recently, the liberal labor market has been under increasing pressure in politics and the media.
A reason to take a closer look. Using the example of temporary staffing, swissstaffing, the association of staffing service providers, will demonstrate in this white paper how flexibility creates good labor market results and how concrete attempts at restriction threaten the liberal labor market.
Decisive for a liberal labor market:
- flexible working time arrangements and the availability of flexible forms of work
- few regulations and a slim digital bureaucracy
- clear primacy of the social partnership as opposed to legal regulations
