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The cantonal employment and labour market authority CEMT (La Commission cantonale pour l’emploi et le marché du travail) has for the first time announced the results of the random inspection revealing that none of twelve temp employment agencies checked fully met the legal standards.



SPE (Public Employment Service), the authority responsible for this area, examined 89 files of temp workers chosen randomly out of 735 contracts. In its report it was noted that in general agencies in Fribourg respected the regulation to pay minimum wages. Nevertheless, four of them did not pay overtime and eleven failed to issue proper employment contracts. Inspectors also pointed out that workers' files were not updated, work schedules were not precise as well as some illegal deductions from wages were found.



In Neuchâtel this information is not publicised but according to the report of the Economy Department, four of seventy agencies in the canton were inspected in 2011 and one agency lost its license. In the canton of Vaud, two companies lost their license because of non-compliance with the regulations. According to the authorities, all agencies had to improve shortages and to pay unpaid overtime.



Agencies argue that there are too many collective agreements and other regulations in Switzerland and that for small companies it is not easy to follow all the latest changes and dew developments.



Nevertheless, there are a less violations and complaints submitted by trade union since agencies started to be inspected. The new collective agreement for temp agency work regulating the education of temp staff as well as their minimum wages came into force in January 2012.



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