Switzerland: Constitutional & Administrative Law

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The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has validated minimum wage regulations in Zurich and Winterthur, overturning lower court decisions and affirming that municipalities possess constitutional autonomy to establish local wage floors. With minimum wages of CHF 23.90 and CHF 23.00 per hour respectively now set to take effect, the ruling settles a key question about the division of legislative powers between cantonal and municipal authorities in Switzerland's federal system.

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It is perhaps appropriate that our first article on Switzerland for the Mondaq Asset Recovery Newsfeed is devoted to commenting on a recent Federal Court ruling dealing with the post-Brexit application of the Lugano Convention to the enforcement in Switzerland of a UK judgment made in 2019.

One of the consequences of Brexit is that the bilateral Agreement on the Free Movements of Persons between Switzerland and the EU no longer applies to the UK as from 1st January 2021.

The United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020. After the transition phase, the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP) between Switzerland and the EU no longer applied to the United Kingdom (UK).

Dispute Resolution analysis: How will a no-deal Brexit affect the enforcement of judgments between the UK and Switzerland?

Dr. Urs Feller, Marcel Frey and Michaela Kappeler discuss from the Swiss perspective the likely impact of a no-deal Brexit on civil justice matters involving UK parties and the approach to jurisdiction clauses.

With the United Kingdom (UK) potentially set to leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October 2019, or at a later date should a further extension be granted,…