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Jobs & wages

This area covers employment, unemployment, wages and working conditions.

Sub-problems

  • Labour-force participation

    Headline indicator: Participation rate of people aged 15–64 (yearly average, % of the population)

    84.1% (2025)

  • Unemployment

    Headline indicator: Registered unemployment rate (SECO, yearly average, %)

    2.8% (2025)

  • Cross-border commuters

    Headline indicator: Foreign cross-border commuters in the fourth quarter (persons)

    408,396 (2025)

Sources: OFS/BFS — Labour-market status of the permanent resident population aged 15 and over (Swiss Labour Force Survey), full and part time (data 2010–2025, source checked on ); SECO (via OFS/BFS) — Registered unemployed and registered unemployment rate by sex, nationality and age (SECO) (data 1991–2025, source checked on ); OFS/BFS — Foreign cross-border commuters (cross-border commuter statistics) (data 1999-Q1–2026-Q3, source checked on )

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Related federal votes

Selection: votes that Swissvotes assigns to this topic's policy area (Swissvotes codebook), and votes linked by Votara editors.

Each line is one vote, from 1848 to 2027: accepted rejected upcoming

Accepted: 12 of 36

Upcoming

  1. Priority of collective employment agreements over cantonal minimum wages Upcoming

The 10 most recent of 36 past votes

  1. Service Citoyen Initiative Rejected
  2. Nursing initiative Accepted
  3. Paternity leave Accepted
  4. Initiative «For an unconditional basic income» Rejected
  5. Minimum Wage Initiative Rejected
  6. Initiative «1:12 – For fair wages» Rejected
  7. Employment Act (opening hours of petrol station shops) Accepted
  8. Initiative «Against abusive remuneration (rip-off initiative)» Accepted
  9. Initiative «6 weeks of holidays for all» Rejected
  10. Arbeitsgesetz (Sonntagsarbeit) Accepted

Source: Année politique suisse, University of Bern — Swissvotes – database of federal popular votes (data 1848–2027, source checked on ) Checks failing

Citizen urgency and parliament attention

Parliamentary business
3.7% of 8,496 business items
Agora daily votes
fewer than 50 votes Opinion of Votara users, not a representative poll

Curia Vista subjects counted for this area: Beschäftigung und Arbeit.

669 items carry at least one of these subjects; an item that also belongs to other areas is split between them.

Votara calculation. The Parliamentary Services tag every business item with one or more subjects; Votara assigns each subject to at most one area. An item that touches several areas is split equally between them.

Agora votes are not representative of the population.

All areas compared · How the subjects are assigned to the areas

Sources: Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista) (source checked on ) Checks failing; Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business types and statuses (Curia Vista) (source checked on ); Votara — Votara calculation – share of parliamentary business per problem area (Curia Vista subject tags mapped)

Source of the Federal Assembly data: Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern. Downloaded on Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista): 10 November 2026; Business types and statuses (Curia Vista): 1 November 2026. Prepared by Votara; this is not an official publication. Terms of use of the data