[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:work\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Fswitzerland-no-majority-for-minimum-wage-in-referendum-may-18-2014":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":9,"path":10,"content_type":11,"locale":12,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":13,"page_created_at":14,"published_at":13,"edit_url":15,"breadcrumbs":16,"seo":29,"body_blocks":37,"call_to_action":43,"categories":50,"labels":51,"owner":7,"authors":52,"related_pages":53,"related_sites":54,"in_subsite":55,"contact_page_url":56,"banner_message":57},9444,"switzerland-no-majority-for-minimum-wage-in-referendum-may-18-2014","Switzerland -No majority for minimum wage in referendum -May 18, 2014",null,"The proposal to introduce a minimum wage was rejected by 76% of voters in a referendum. Under the plan, employers would have had to pay workers a minimum 22 Swiss francs (about 18 euros) an hour.","","\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Fswitzerland-no-majority-for-minimum-wage-in-referendum-may-18-2014","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T15:16:35.920796+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F9444\u002Fedit\u002F",[17,20,23,26,28],{"title":18,"slug":19},"World of Work","work",{"title":21,"slug":22},"Collective Bargaining Agreement","collective-bargaining-agreement",{"title":24,"slug":25},"Collective Bargaining Updates","updates",{"title":27,"slug":27},"2014",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":30,"canonical":31,"robots":32,"og_type":33,"twitter_card":34,"locale":12,"created_at":35,"last_modified_at":36},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Fswitzerland-no-majority-for-minimum-wage-in-referendum-may-18-2014\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-26T22:09:24.249610+01:00",[38],{"type":39,"data":40},"raw_html_block",{"content":41,"variant":42},"\u003Cp>The proposal to introduce a minimum wage was rejected by 76% of voters in a referendum. Under the plan, employers would have had to pay workers a minimum 22 Swiss francs (about 18 euros) an hour. The trade unions that initiated the referendum have always said that the proposed introduction of a minimum wage at that level was necessary for people to live a decent life. They argued that surviving on less than 4,000 francs a month is not possible because rents, health insurance and food are all prohibitively expensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>English: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Fbusiness-27459178\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Fbusiness-27459178\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.thelocal.ch\u002F20140515\u002Fpay-under-less-tha4000-a-month-challeng\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.thelocal.ch\u002F20140515\u002Fpay-under-less-tha4000-a-month-challeng\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"discreet\">For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:cbn-aias@uva.nl\">cbn-aias@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa> or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mnikolova@etui.org\">mnikolova@etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>. For previous issues of the \u003Ci>Collective bargaining newsletter\u003C\u002Fi> please visit \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\u003C\u002Fa>. You may find further information on the ETUI at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>, and on the AIAS at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>","light",{"text":44,"link":45},"Contact us",{"title":44,"url":46,"description":44,"rel":47,"type":48,"id":49},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]