Politics Hardly any violations of minimum wage regulations in Ticino
Just over three percent of the companies inspected have breached the minimum wage in Ticino in the past three years. This is the result of a review by the authorities. The new uniform regulations for internships introduced with the minimum wage have also proved their worth.
11.02.2025, 15:07
11.02.2025, 15:08
SDA
According to the study, almost 13,000 companies with over 65,000 employees were inspected in the first three years following the introduction of the cantonal minimum wage. During this introductory phase, the infringement rate was 3.5 percent, as reported by the Ticino Department of Economy and Finance on Tuesday.
In addition, guidelines for internships, which were included as an annex to the minimum wage ordinance, proved to be an effective instrument for uniformly regulating the status of interns. Here too, checks during the first three years following the introduction of the guidelines revealed no significant abuses, it added.
Violations of standard employment contracts
Checks in the area of standard employment contracts, on the other hand, revealed an infringement rate of 8.1 percent, according to the press release. Of the 1,200 companies inspected, 178 violated the standard employment contracts, which affected 2571 employees.
Both the violations of the minimum wage introduced on December 1, 2021, and those of the standard employment contracts were due to accounting errors, misinterpretation of job categories or a lack of adjustment to inflation, according to the statement. In both cases, the employers adjusted the wages promptly in most cases.
Last Sunday, both the canton of Basel-Landschaft and the canton of Solothurn rejected minimum wage initiatives. This means that Basel-Stadt remains the only German-speaking Swiss canton with a statutory minimum wage.
In Latin Switzerland, the cantons of Geneva, Neuchâtel, Ticino and Jura have a minimum wage.
