CEA 2024

Your syndicom union has negotiated a ground-breaking collective labour agreement (CLA) with Swisscom for Swisscom employees to reduce actual working time, promote a better work-life balance, and allow working time models to be tailored to your specific circumstances. We are now planning pilot projects with Swisscom to reduce working time and create new working time models. The new CLA comes into force on 1 January 2024.

Following intense negotiations over the last 12 months, we were able to take crucial steps towards improving your working conditions at Swisscom. Together with Swisscom, we are planning and implementing pilot projects to look at working time. One thing is certain: These projects will show that reducing working time is not only feasible but also beneficial to the company.

Join us to help write the next chapter in Swisscom’s success story of excellent working conditions and reduced working time

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Many aspects of your working life have been improved by the new Swisscom CLA, while in all other respects, the status quo has been maintained

The main changes are set out in the tables below:

Working time and non-working time

Swisscom employees can find detailed information on the Swisscom intranet
	Legal requirement	CEA 2018	CEA 2024
Leave	20 days	graded according to age: Up to 34, 25 days; up to 30 days from 60	up to 49: 28 days 50-59: 30 days From 60: 31 days
Maternity leave	14 weeks, 80 % of wage	18 weeks, 100 % of wage	20 weeks, 100 % of wage
Paternity leave	10 days, 80 % of wage	15 days, 100 % of wage	20 days, 100 % of wage
Parental leave	none	none	24 weeks, if both parents are working at Swisscom

Working time and part-time

Swisscom employees can find detailed information on the Swisscom intranet
	Legal requirement	CEA 2018	CEA 2024
Semi-retirement	no provision	entitlement to reduction in rate of activity by no more than 20 %	rate of activity may be reduced by up to 40 %. Swisscom shares the financial impact
Flexitime account bandwidth	no regulation	+100 to -50 h	+100 to -50 h. as of 31.12. Target +40 h
Long-term working time account	no provision	at least 80 hours on opening the account	at least 40 hours on opening the account. Refusal must be justified in writing
Change to part-time work	no provision	considered sympathetically, with reasons given in writing	considered sympathetically, with reasons given in writing, especially after parental leave

Wages and bonuses

Swisscom employees can find detailed information on the Swisscom intranet
	Legal requirement	CEA 2018	CEA 2024
Minimum wage	none / cantonal	CHF 52,000 gross	CHF 54,600 gross
Child allowance	cantonal	CHF 240 per month and child	CHF 240 per month and child
Education allowance	cantonal	CHF 250 per month and child	CHF 290 per month and child

Key improvements

We have achieved substantial improvements, including tailored working time models, with new semi-retirement models financially supported by Swisscom, longer maternity and paternity leave, and improvements to the long-term working time account.

And there’s more: All employees will get at least one additional leave day, with some even receiving three. Swisscom employees will now be entitled to 28 leave days up to the age of 49, 30 days from 50 to 59, and 31 days from the age of 60. The CLA stipulates that no one may be disadvantaged or discriminated against if they work from home; a new home office procedure is being negotiated. In addition, the education allowance for children and the minimum wage will rise.

Our main demands in the negotiations remain the reduction of actual working time (including reduction of weekly working time, and new tailored working time models, and we will make every effort to make this happen. This CLA is an important step towards achieving our objectives, but we still have some way to go. We’ll keep working on it!

Join us to help write the next chapter in Swisscom’s success story of excellent working conditions and reduced working time

The more members get involved in syndicom, the more successful our negotiations will be. Become a syndicom member today

join now