The decrease in the number of types of professions subject to the obligation to advertise continues, as happened last year.
In 2024, 3.2 percent of employed people will work in types of professions subject to the obligation to register, while, among other things, cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments will no longer be required to do so.
At the end of November 2023, President of the Confederation Guy Parmelin, head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), confirmed the list of types of professions subject to the obligation to register for 2024.
One type of profession will be added to the list starting from an unemployment rate of 5 percent.
In the reference period from October 2022 to September 2023 the average unemployment rate stood at 2.0 percent, therefore it was 0.3 percentage points below the average unemployment rate of the reference period for genders professions subject to the notification obligation for 2023 (2.3 %).
If last year 19.9 percent of employed people worked in types of professions subject to the obligation to register, in the current year the percentage was 8.2 percent. This trend of decreasing the scope of the notification obligation continues with the new ordinance: in 2024, 3.2 percent of employed people will work in types of professions subject to the notification obligation.
The type of profession with the largest number of gainfully employed people and which will be subject to the notification obligation in 2024 is unskilled construction personnel with 73 507 employed.
Among other things, cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments with a total of 80,000 employees, service staff in restaurants with 33,000 employees and service managers with 4000 employed. The types of professions subject to the obligation to register for 2024 can be consulted on the website: www.lavoro.swiss. The new ordinance comes into force on January 1, 2024.
Every year, in the fourth quarter, the EAER updates the list of professions subject to the obligation to register. The list is published in an EAER ordinance and remains in force from 1 January to 31 December of the following year.
The only criterion for subjecting professions to the obligation to register is the unemployment rate in a profession. The percentages are calculated at the national level and based on the 12 month average across occupation genres according to the Swiss nomenclature of professions of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
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