For statutory reasons, because Poste Suisse became a corporation of public law in July 2013, the social partners had to renegotiate the collective labor agreement (CCT) that supervises working conditions and pay for the company’s 61,000 employees. The company unions, Syndicom and transfair, have been negotiating with the company’s management for 6 months, and their primary goal was to avoid the breaking up of statuses and agreements between the 3 undertakings supervised by the new holding, La Post Suisse SA. This objective was reached last week. On February 19, the company and unions announced the intermediary results of their negotiations. The CCT is maintained for all of the group’s undertakings. Regarding pay, minimum wage was raised and an individual increase system was introduced. The talks are supposed to end in late 2014 at the latest and the new CCT should come into force on January 1, 2015.
Obligation to renegotiate the CCT for the new SA. As in other countries in Europe, Switzerland has decided to gradually privatize its postal administration with the liberalization of the European postal and telecom market in 1998. For La Poste, going from administration to corporation of public law had two consequences for employees, who lost their civil-servant status. In return, La Poste and its majority shareholder, the Swiss State, committed, within the framework of social partnership, t
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