Swiss Post agrees 1% pay rise with unions

Swiss Post employees will receive a 1% increase in salary next year, under a prospective new agreement with trade unions Syndicom and Transfair. After two rounds of negotiation, a tentative agreement based around the moderate pay rise does still need sign-off by the Swiss Post board and decision-making bodies of the two unions.

Along with the pay rise, the company’s 35,000 staff subject to the collective employment contract will also receive a one-off bonus payment of CH% 500.

And, Swiss Post said it was setting aside the equivalent of 0.8% of staff salaries for a pay-for-performance incentive programme.

The company said it was expecting most of its employees to profit from the incentives.

Separate negotiations for employees of Swiss Post’s PostBus Switzerland, PostLogistics and SecurePost subsidiaries have not yet been concluded, the company said.

The second biggest employer in Switzerland, Swiss Post has around 53,000 employees, not including those working abroad.