Employer of Record in Switzerland

Yes. Under an EOR arrangement Dhi ADT is the legal employer in Switzerland, holding the contract, running payroll and carrying the AHV, ALV, BVG and UVG registrations. You direct the employee’s day-to-day work.

Typical time to a live employee is 5-10 business days, subject to the permit position for non-Swiss nationals.

Combined employer social charges run roughly 13-19% of gross - AHV/IV/EO at 5.3% with no ceiling, ALV at 1.1% to CHF 148,200 plus a 0.5% solidarity contribution above it, BVG age-banded from 3.5% to 18% of coordinated salary, and UVG at around 0.5-2%.

The spread is almost entirely BVG. An older hire genuinely costs several points more than a younger one on the same salary.

Not nationally. A small number of cantons, including Geneva, set their own minimum wage, and those figures are high by European standards. Elsewhere pay is set by the market and by any applicable collective agreement, so benchmarking matters more than a statutory floor check.

Quellensteuer is Swiss withholding tax on employment income for employees who do not hold a C permit. The employer withholds it monthly at a rate set by canton, civil status and salary, and remits it to the cantonal authority.

As employer of record we operate that withholding, which is why the permit category has to be confirmed before the first payroll run.

After probation, notice is one month in year one, two months in years two to nine and three months from year ten - always expiring at the end of a calendar month. During probation it is seven days.

There is no statutory severance for ordinary dismissals, so the notice period is effectively the whole exit cost.

We coordinate B (renewable annual residence), L (short-term, under one year) and C (settlement) permits. Availability and quota treatment differ for EU/EFTA and third-country nationals, so we assess the permit route before the offer is made.