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Women lag 18% behind men for Swiss salaries: new stats show devil in the detail

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:14:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Federal Statistical Offices new figures for average earnings in Switzerland show women making barely any progress in catching up with men for equal pay. The average salary in 2010 was CHF5,979, but the spread was large: women made on average CHF5221 and men CHF6,397. Differences are explained to some extent [...]

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Swiss stuck in gender gap rankings: enough female ministers, too little pay

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:41:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland is stuck at number 10 in the world’s gender gap rankings, published 10 October by the World Economic Forum in Geneva, with equal pay for men and women as one of the sticking points. Friday 10 November the country will observe “Futur en tous genres” to encourage boys and girls to [...]

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HUG’s transport workers on strike; hospital wins prison care award

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:55:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Hug university hospitals in Geneva were handed a surprise strike Thursday 6 October by the workers who transport patients and material, and the union for which they work and hospital officials immediately met. The hospital says in a statement issued during the morning that its first preoccupation is the patients, and [...]

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Federal equal pay company tool now available in English

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:16:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss federal government’s tool for companies to check if their remuneration programmes respect the law on equal pay is now available in English, Bern announced Tuesday 28 June. Logib, which was downloaded 3,700 times in 2010, was difficult for international companies, Swiss-based or foreign, to use because there was no English [...]

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Women, who earn 20% less in Switzerland, fail to show up for strike

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:59:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It was mostly work as usual for women in Switzerland 14 June, a day marked for a strike to protest the 20 percent less that women earn, across the board. Small groups gathered in several places and some of them notably blew pink whistles at 14:06 to mark the 20th anniversary of [...]

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Wages inched up in Switzerland in 2010, but so did inflation

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:50:34 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - There wasn’t a lot left over for additional spending in 2010, in Swiss households, despite wages inching up by 0.8 percent. Inflation also rose by a whiff, 0.7 percent, leaving a small improvement of 0.1 percent. A monthly salary of CHF10,000 would thus have seen a real improvement of CHF100 in [...]

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UBS’s top pay was $10m in 2010

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:52:00 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Executive board compensation up nearly one-third Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Karsten Kengeter, head of investment banking at UBS, earned 20 percent less in 2010 than in 2009, but his salary of CHF874,626 plus bonus still amounted to CHF9.32 million, or over $10 million. The bank says 88 percent of the bonus will be deferred. Kengeter [...]

Novartis profits and mgmt. pay up, but future warnings

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:49:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss residents could be forgiven for wondering if Novartis is in relatively good or bad shape Thursday morning, depending on which news sources they follow. The company’s annual report, published Thursday 27 January, shows net sales of $50.6 billion, up from $44.3b a year earlier. Net income was close to $10b, [...]

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Swiss unions “satisfied” with 1.5-2.5% salary increases

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:15:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Travail.Suisse, a union that represents 170,000 workers in three major industries, says it is “satisfied” with salaries negotiated for 2011, up to 3 percent in some cases. The construction business is the only one where negotiators have failed to agree, with companies recommending a 1 percent increase, turned down by the [...]

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Real salary growth highest in decade

Laila Rodriguez — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:28:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Salaries in Switzerland grew 2.1% in 2009 while real salary growth reached 2.6% due to a negative inflation of -0.5%, says the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, OFS. This is the highest real salary growth in a decade. From 2000 to 2008 real salaries grew only between -0.4% and 1.5%. The 2.1% [...]

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