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Swiss HR Easy is not an international HR product with a Swiss localisation layer. The Swiss rules are in the model.
These pages describe what the platform implements and why. They are not legal advice. Collective agreements (GAV/CCT), cantonal rules and individual contracts can all impose stricter obligations than the federal minimum. Where they do, configure the stricter rule.

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Where each obligation lives

Working time

ArG Art. 9, 12 and 15 — weekly maxima, annual overtime caps, mandatory breaks.

Vacation and leave

OR Art. 329a — four weeks minimum, five under 20.

Probation

OR Art. 335b — three months maximum, and how the platform enforces it.

Sick pay

OR Art. 324a and the Berner, Basler and Zürcher scales.

Stellenmeldepflicht

AIG Art. 21a — reporting, the embargo, and the feedback obligation.

Payroll declarations

AHV, QST, BVG, EMA, Lohnausweis and the ELM Jahresmeldung.

Data protection

nDSG, retention, DSAR, and data residency.

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Cantonal variation is the norm

Twenty-six cantons, and they differ in ways that matter operationally:
  • Public holidays — one federal holiday, the rest cantonal.
  • Sick-pay scales — three regional scales applied by different courts.
  • Quellensteuer — cantonal tariffs and settlement procedures.
  • School holidays — set per canton and often per municipality.
Nothing cantonal is hard-coded. Every one of these is configuration, with a default derived from the employee’s Standort.

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Currency and formats

CHF throughout, with amounts held in decimal and rounded to rappen only at the boundary. Dates and numbers are formatted per locale — which matters on payroll exports, where a mis-parsed separator is a mis-stated amount.

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Data residency

Single-tenant deployment in Azure Switzerland North for Swiss customers, with encryption at rest and in transit and application-layer encryption for credentials and tokens. See Data protection.