New Zurich Labor Market Control Office
The canton of Zurich has created a new inspection body to check compliance with wage and working conditions.
As of July 1, 2015, inspections regarding compliance with wage and working conditions in industries without a generally binding collective labor agreement (ave GAV) as well as inspections in the area of combating undeclared work will now be carried out by an internal administrative inspection body. Until now, these inspections were carried out by the Association of Labor Inspectorates of the Canton of Zurich (AKZ).
With the establishment of the Labor Market Control Office at the beginning of next month, the Tripartite Commission of the Canton of Zurich (TPK) and the canton will in future have their own internal administrative control organization. Since the TPK and the canton are responsible by law for monitoring the labor market in non-regulated industries and combating undeclared work, and since they have full responsibility in these areas, this innovation is necessary and consistent. Based in the Labor Market Supervision Department of the Office of Economics and Labor (AWA), four labor market inspectors with the support of three administrative staff will in future carry out around 1,300 undeclared work inspections and 2,200 inspections in the TPK's area of responsibility each year.
The canton will continue to cooperate with the Labor Control Office of the Canton of Zurich (AKZ) in the area of statutory interface tasks in regulated industries with ave CLA. The competent control body in these industries is the joint professional commissions, for which the AKZ will continue to carry out controls regarding compliance with wage and working conditions.
