I don't know about your employer specifically, but I had my first child here in November and we get one week between Christmas and New Year's day as holidays (this is at the ETH). I did not get extra maternity time even though this week would have been paid holiday. I also confirmed this through HR at the time: the benefit was 14 weeks, regardless of whatever public holidays or set holidays were within that time period.

It was also explained to me using aSwissInTheUS's logic-you're paid from a different fund (it's an insurance fund) that runs for 14 weeks from the birth, so benefits don't "pause" for public holidays.

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