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Swiss Staffingindex - The Crunch of the Corona-minus: 12% Slump in March
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As a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Swiss Staffingindex shows 12% fewer working hours rendered by temporary workers than during the same month in the previous year - without taking short-time working hours into account. A survey conducted by gfs-zürich shows that on average, nearly half of temporary workers were on short-time working after the lockdown if this had been applied for by a staff leasing company. This was the case for around 60% of staff leasing companies. Smaller declines in January and February have meant a more moderate downturn of 6% for the first quarter of 2020. As the economy was only affected by the lockdown for the second half of March, business growth is likely to collapse further during April.
Unia Playing with Fire
"Demanding that businesses close and then complaining about redundancies is hypocritical" is how Myra Fischer-Rosinger, Director of swissstaffing, views Unia's current policy. "The biggest union in the country has a social responsibility to work with employers to find solutions for implementing remote-working and hygiene measures. Each week of lockdown is inflicting greater damage and destroying both temporary and permanent positions." The traditional spring upturn in the staff leasing sector has come to an abrupt halt. A lack of recruitment and a tapering off of short-term deployments are having a greater effect on the downturn than redundancies. However, terminations are inevitable. If business continues to decline for an extended period of time, which is conceivable, short-time working will not be legally permissible for either permanent employees or temporary workers, meaning that changes will have to be made to the emergency ordinance.
Success Stories and Corporate Responsibility during the Crisis
Staff leasing companies are taking commercial responsibility during the crisis. By providing digital training opportunities or application tips on social networks, they are getting job seekers ready for the labor market. They are using their networks of contacts to occupy employees outside of their traditional fields, for example in logistics, and are providing them with gloves, face masks and disinfectant when needed. They are completing short-time working applications for corporate customers free of charge, or helping them with new recruitment for after the lockdown. Where there are redundancies, they are helping terminated employees register with their regional employment center. The crisis also represents a way out of illegal employment: numerous employees have become legal via temporary work due to restrictions on cross-border movement without a work permit.
More statistics can be found at this link. https://www.swissstaffing.ch/en/Sector-Politics/Statistics-of-the-sector/Introduction.php
Contact:
Marius Osterfeld, Economist
Tel: 044 388 95 70 / 079 930 45 25
marius.osterfeld@swissstaffing.ch
Blandina Werren, Head of Communications
Tel: 044 388 95 35
blandina.werren@swissstaffing.ch
www.swissstaffing.ch
