Hi, all. We are moving the apartment soon. In my working contract, I have 1 extra paid day off for moving every calendar year (when I actually move) but it is not in my partner's contract. I want to ask if this one extra moving day off is in the law that is universal to everyone, or just my company?

Every company I have worked for has allowed one day off for moving. Is your partner full or part time? Maybe if she's part time it's not required to give an extra day off for moving?

It is very unusual here, so you are lucky. A day off for moving used to be common in Germany.

Really? Even the tin-pot ramshackle place I am working in now grants me a day off to move. Would probably be signed off with a snort and a grimace but, nonetheless, it's there in black and white.

i believe it's pretty common too. here in romandie anyway. i work only part time and i have it, my husband has it and we have quite a few friends that moved this year and they all had the moving day too.

i would have your partner ask their boss about it and see, i'd be surprised if it wasn't allowed. or at least to take a day unpaid at the least, those days are needed!

good luck!

It's very common. All 3 of my employers have contractually agreed to a day off for moves - in fact, I got two when I moved to a new canton last year.

Here's an earlier, unconclusive thread. Moving Day Entitlement

According to Art. 329 (3) CO the employer "must allow the employee the customary hours and days off work." (http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/220/a329.html).

However, the employee is only entitled if the normal free time (after work, weekends) are insufficient. So if you can move on the weekend, you would have to do it then.

However, Art. 329 (3) CO only says that you are entitled to time of work. Whether or not you get paid depends on what the employment contract says, any collective bargaining agreement says (GAV or NAV), or what is customary. The latter depends on what is customary in the company, in the same region, and line of business.

So the answer is: maybe :-)