Current projects
| Ackermann | Jack | Position of the pension fund in the event of disability |
| Arn | Noa | The differentiation between imaging and instrumentally detectable and undetectable consequences of accidents according to the statutory accident insurance and the case law of the Federal Supreme Court and its effects on adequate causality |
| Bertschi | Nadine | Tax and social security benefits under Annex I Art. 9 of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP) |
| Dobmann | Nevin | The collective employment contract as an additional party in the continued payment of wages pursuant to Art. 324a CO |
| Gügler | Maya | Algorithms as gatekeepers: Employer liability for personality violations caused by AI decisions in the application process |
| Haniotis | Nicolas | The changing nature of permanent establishments under social security law: effects on ANobAG status and coordination with tax law |
| Hess | Melanie | Tax and social security law treatment of variable salary components such as wages, bonuses and gratuities |
| Class | Damian | Tax and social security law treatment of compensation that counts as a voluntary academic achievement |
| Moser | Claudio | How should tips be treated from an employment and social security law perspective? |
| Stuber | Joel | Reduction in teaching workload in the canton of Aargau - legal classification |
Completed projects
| Achermann | Bettina | Sexual harassment in the workplace |
| Aggül | Dilara Aylin | Use of artificial intelligence in the application process: Labor and data protection law framework in the run-up to the employment relationship under private law |
| Alekseieva | Nadiia | Big business and human rights |
| Asllani | Liridona | Liability issues in staff leasing |
| Aydin | Sultan | Group-related protection against dismissal |
| Baerel | Valérie | The special protection against gender-discriminatory dismissal |
| Baumgartner | Beda | International platform power, cantonal responses. The impact and consequences of Uber's market entry on jurisdiction at federal level and the discussions and design of cab laws in the cantons of Geneva and Zurich |
| Baur | Eline | A comprehensive look at the mixed method of disability insurance, including its impact on various branches of social insurance |
| Bisonni | Saskia | "Outsourcing" through subcontractor agreements |
| Bläsi | Géraldine | The social security status of self-employed persons |
| Block | Laetitia | Religious freedom in social security and social assistance law |
| Bolsinger | Yannick | Key points of a socially acceptable and economically viable mandatory daily sickness benefits insurance scheme |
| Borer | Alain | BGE 141 V 281 Post-Überwindbarkeitsrechtsprechung - legal situation and implications |
| Borer | Jan | "Bring your own device" - Issues in the employment relationship under private law |
| Bralic | Marina | Home office in the Covid crisis |
| Brown | Sophie | Part-time work and childcare from a gender equality perspective |
| Brunner | Livia | Cooperation and data exchange between various supervisory bodies in the context of the accompanying measures |
| Bürgi | Noah | Rights and obligations of the employer in the first phases of the IV process |
| Büklü | Suheyla | Staff leasing - a curse or a blessing for the leased employee? With a view to the CBA Staff Leasing |
| Cadalbert | Tobias | Directive 2019/1152/EU - Contents, effects and a possible need for revision of Article 330b of the Swiss Code of Obligations in the context of the autonomous transposition of EU labor law by Switzerland |
| Christ | Sarah | Right to training in the context of rejected asylum |
| Cottiati | Ariane | The justice of redistribution in social security law considered under Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics |
| de Hoog | Salome Simona | The employer's duty of care in staff leasing and the divergence between risk bearing and the duty of prevention in the event of an occupational accident |
| Dillena | Anja | Social security law in conflict with fundamental rights and the significance of the ECHR |
| Ehrhard | Clara Sophie | The right to work for asylum seekers obliged to leave the country - legitimacy of the prohibition of work under asylum law and compatibility with higher-ranking law |
| Eichenberger | Lena | The international and constitutional right to independence of reviews in social security law |
| Erbacher | Bastian | Effects of the case law of the ECtHR regarding Art. 11 ECHR on the right to strike in Switzerland |
| Eren | Seyit | The demarcation between trendy companies and profit-oriented companies - effects on the behavioral requirements for employees |
| Erhart | Sarina | Labor and IV law aspects of employment within the framework of Art. 18a IVG, taking into account Art. 18b and 18 IVG |
| Federspiel | Ladina | Relationship of social insurances to liability insurances, in particular in recourse proceedings |
| Fejza | Jehona | Supplementary benefits to AHV/IV and credit transfer of a hypothetical income for non-employed spouses of EL recipients |
| Fellmann | Nicolas | The integration of labor and social rights into the ECHR through interpretation - And the potential impact of this method on a right to paternity leave in Switzerland |
| Fischer | Bettina | Equal pay analysis - "finally a step in the right direction"? |
| Fivaz | Aline | What influence do the costs of an academic achievement have on the choice of treatment method if a similar to better benefit can be expected at higher expenses? |
| Flück | Nathalie | The employer's operating risk |
| Free | Nic | Not a nice place - work in the prison system and the Thorberg case |
| Frey | Lukas | Accident insurance protection in the event of multiple employment |
| Peace | Stefanie | Protection of social security claims by the ECHR and its additional protocols |
| Furler | Christian | Work-related incapacity for work |
| Fournier | Valérie | Admissions of employer termination immediately before transfer of business |
| Gass | Jeannine | The relationship between two concepts: Disability as a concept of social insurance law and disability as a concept of protection against discrimination under constitutional and international law and the Disability Equality Act |
| Vulture | Juliana | Coordination of academic achievements of the employer according to Art. 324a/b CO with UV daily allowances and UV pensions |
| Geldof | Odette | Selected questions on business trips - definition, working time and others |
| Gschwind | Andreas Gschwind | Bonus / malus in daily sickness benefits insurance: admissions or not? |
| Good year | Shelley | The concept of disability in tax and social security law |
| Habegger | Alexandra | Self-fault in the event of an accident in the area of UVG - coordination between reduction and refusal of academic achievements in accident insurance law and the obligation to continue salary payments in labor law |
| Haenle | Marc | Objective protection against dismissal in old age |
| Häfelfinger | Patrick | The instruments of monitoring employees in private-law employment relationships |
| Hagenbuch | Andreas | Protection of mental health and whistleblowing |
| Hässle | Noëmi Deborah | Psychosocial risks in the workplace - the demands on employers with regard to health protection |
| Hegi | Raphael | mHealth: Software as a medical device with a special focus on qualification and classification as well as data protection hurdles |
| Hemmig | Annika | Financing home and nursing home care - discussion of problems and implementation in the cantons of Canton of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft |
| Henny | Lukas | Parental and disability discrimination protection in the labor market in an international context |
| Herger | Antonia | The social security consequences of unjustified dismissal without notice |
| Heusler | Tom | The employment claim: A legal comparison between Switzerland and Germany |
| Hoti | Laura | Employment and social security status of co-workers of a Swiss company at Basel-Mulhouse Airport |
| Huber | Nathalie | Credit transfer of a hypothetical income for supplementary benefits of partial IV pensioners and widowed persons |
| Inglin | Andrea | The influence of insolvency on the employment relationship |
| Johner | Lina | Cross-border transfers of undertakings and their labor law consequences, using the example of Germany and Switzerland as well as within Europe |
| Jordan | Tara | Freedom of contract and excessive commitment in professional team sports |
| Kämpf | Joel | Collecting and utilizing evidence in employment law litigation - a hurdle race |
| Kisikyol | Berin | Non-compete clause: owed eternal loyalty? |
| Kohler | Benjamin | Possibilities of dispute resolution in professional football |
| Kücük | Sema Nur | Further development of the IV: Audio recordings in medical reviews pursuant to Art. 44 para. 6 ATSG |
| Kunz | Laura | Undeclared work from a social insurance law perspective - with special consideration of the role of the employer |
| Lauton | Lea Vanessa | The definition of working time with special consideration of changing time |
| Leibacher | Anna | (second supervisor) The legal situation of the labor market integration of refugees from the perspective of employers |
| Loeffler | Julia | Working conditions of nursing staff in the Covid-19 crisis - To what extent has the legal basis for nursing staff changed in the Covid-19 crisis and how do the Covid-19 crisis and the regulations exempted to combat it affect the working conditions of nursing staff and what basic legal questions arise from this? |
| Loretz | Fiona | The reasonableness of medical measures in disability insurance compared to the assumption of costs for the same by health insurance |
| Lundin | Annika | Status quo and current challenges of home ownership promotion in the context of occupational benefits insurance |
| Madörin | Banchu | Disability equality in the employment relationship - how far does the duty of care go in this respect? |
| Maréchal | Joel | (Second supervisor) Pay for Performance (P4P) in the mandatory health insurance in Switzerland |
| Marjanovic | Gabriela | Protection of freedom of association and the right to take industrial action in Swiss law |
| Marti | Jolanda | Fundamental rights requirements for observation in social insurance law in the context of the BV and the ECHR |
| Meier | Pia | The concept of employee in international labor law - An analysis of the personal scope of application of international labor law norms |
| Middleton | Maurice | The collective bargaining capacity of a trade union in Swiss and German law |
| Milojevic | Milan | Labor and social law issues of bogus self-employment |
| Minder | Joshua | (second supervisor) Right to work and (further) education for sans-papiers |
| Miyoshi | Alicia | Labor disputes in Switzerland - Legal consequences for trade unions - Examination of the legal consequences of labor disputes for trade unions, based on the analysis of BGE 132 III 122 and BGE 134 IV 216 |
| Müller | Vanessa | Improving the reconciliation of work and family life in the context of maternity, paternity and care leave |
| Muller | Yannick | The labor law situation of a player transfer in Swiss professional football |
| Mussio | Nicola | Wet Lease Agreements in Aviation - Contract Qualification, Authorization Procedures and Selected Labor and Posting Law Issues in the Context of Swiss and European Law |
| Naef | Joel | "Unusual market remuneration" and its legal consequences |
| Nertz | Salome | Selected aspects of the termination of cooperative tenancies |
| Oes | Marielle | Dignity brings burden? A labor law analysis of the legal figure of the (senior) executive employee under the Swiss Code of Obligations and the Labor Law (ArG) |
| Ozan | Kübra | The internship - with special consideration of labor law |
| Paganoni | Dario | Labor and social security law aspects of the employment relationship in hourly paid work |
| Perrinjaquet | Yasmine | From international concept to cantonal implementation: statutory minimum wages and CLA wages in the tense relationship between Swiss social partnership and (inter)national law. A sociological-legal classification. |
| Pileggi | Sefora | The importance of equivalence in group daily sickness benefits insurance |
| Pfister | Patrizia | The role of the employer in accident insurance |
| Ramadani | Hava | Legal assessment of health apps in the new world of work |
| Recher | Jeannine | The social plan obligation in Switzerland |
| Reinhardt | Simone | Maternity and paternity insurance - The tension between politics and the principle of equal treatment |
| Reist | Benjamin | Access rights to private companies - How far do the trade unions' access rights to private companies, which are based on the freedom of association, go and how far is their scope in classical, physical and virtual terms? |
| Rentsch | Vera | Paternity and parental leave in the light of the ECHR and selected international treaties |
| Ringgenberg | Alain | The transfer of undertakings under Art. 333 CO in triangular relationships |
| Roth | Stephanie | Tension between the free choice of pension fund and the CLA regulations in Switzerland |
| Rohrbach | Nicki | Responsibility for medical treatment benefits after an accident: transition from accident insurance to mandatory health insurance |
| Rudin | Nina | Legal remedies for employees in the event of data protection violations in the employment relationship |
| Salsi | Diana | Social security implications of a transfer of business |
| Sauthoff | Sven | What options for accompanying measures can Switzerland adopt without violating EU law and what would be the impact? |
| Schär | Claudine | Suspicious dismissals |
| Shock | Marco | Solo self-employed persons in collective labor agreements - a necessity under collective labor law or an oxymoron under antitrust law? |
| Schuban | Maja | "Outsourcing" through staff leasing |
| Sigrist | Stephan | The employee in the bankruptcy of the employer |
| Simsek | Simge | Monitoring the employee in the home office |
| Summer | Marie-Caroline | Compulsory self-incrimination of delinquent employees under labor law in the context of internal investigations, taking into account the use of evidence |
| Somogyi | Martina | Whistleblowing in Swiss employment law - transferability of public law provisions to private employment relationships |
| Spalinger | Cassandra | Obligations and rights to cooperate under tax and social security law from a fundamental rights perspective |
| Spinnler | Rahel | Gender equality law in Switzerland - focus on working life |
| Starobinski | Gabriel | The influence of the (revised) European Social Charter on Swiss labor law with special consideration of the integrative interpretation method of the European Court of Human Rights |
| Stecher | Jean-Luc | Tendency companies in a morally changing world: A modern football company in the context of tendency protection |
| Stefania | Dolores | The impact of digitalization on collective labour law |
| Stokar | Evelyn | Health protection in the changing workplace using the example of electrosmog and electrohypersensitivity |
| Studinger | Anna | New ordinance on working time recording |
| Suter | Julia | Protection of employees' privacy and personal details - requirements of international labor law and EU labor law for national law |
| Suter | Kim | Admission of arbitration clauses in international employment relationships |
| Thalmann | Benjamin | Limits of contractual commitment in Swiss professional football, taking into account the model contracts of the Swiss Football Association |
| Terkourafis | Andria | Dismissal and protection against dismissal for fathers and mothers in private law employment relationships |
| Tschan | Marvin | Short-time work in the Covid crisis - With special consideration of the legal admissibility of dismissal during short-time work in relation to the Covid crisis |
| Turtschi | Samuel | Statutory protection against dismissal for members of employee representatives in private companies |
| Uhler | Raphael | Data protection and privacy in the workplace: processing of personal data by AI in the application process |
| Vecchi | Luca | More than a contract - The content of collective labor agreements and its legal limits |
| Vianin | Anastassia | The protection of whistleblowers - An examination of the Swiss legal situation, taking into account the case law of the ECtHR and legal developments in the EU (Whistleblower Directive) |
| Bird | Dominic | Contractual penalties in sports contracts |
| Von Sury d'Aspremont | Natascha | Protection against dismissal in the USA and Switzerland: a legal comparison |
| Waldvogel | Cassandra | No pain, no gain - presenteeism in the context of labor and social security law |
| Walker | Constantine | Between fiduciary duty and freedom of expression: The contractual limits of freedom of expression in professional football |
| Wall | Mary | Protection of the employee's privacy and personal details: What requirements does international labor law and EU labor law place on national labor law? |
| Walther | Gülcan | The entitlement to disability pensions in accident insurance |
| White | Marie-Louise | Economics in Swiss social insurance - An ethical assessment according to Kantian moral philosophy with a focus on health and accident insurance |
| Weller | Elena | Opportunities and challenges of AI in the employment relationship |
| Wenger | Mary | Incapacity for work due to illness and continued payment of wages: protection against loss of wages under private law, federal personnel law, personnel law of Canton of Basel-Stadt and Canton of Basel-Stadt |
| Willin | Michael Willin | Self-employment in the red light district |
| Wolfensberger | Anne-Sophie | Relationship between data protection law and data protection provisions in employment contracts |
| Woolley | Caroline | Female cab drivers - social security and civil law status de lege lata |
| Zbinden | Zoe | Coordination of Art. 329i, 329h and 324a CO with the academic achievements of the Income Compensation Ordinance (EO) for the care of a child with a severe health impairment |
| Zenklusen | Mischa | Representation of athletes' interests in collective labor law in Swiss and US sports |
| Zeqiri | Merita | Articles 73a & 73b ArGV 1 - requirements, introduction and their challenges |
| Carpenter | Linda | Coordination of Art. 324a/b CO, daily sickness benefits insurance and pension fund academic achievements |
| Zimmermann | Sophie | Proof of incapacity for work in terms of labor law |
| Zwick | Amandine | Coordination of Art. 324a/b OR with EO academic achievements |
| Zwick | Seraina | Health insurance cover for undocumented migrants: areas of tension between health policy and migration policy interests |
Ongoing projects
| Bottinelli Lorena | Maternity leave in Switzerland - regulated by law, but insufficient? (working title) | ||
| Ciaparelli Raphael | Enforcement and sanctions by the joint committees (working title) | ||
| Herzog Julian | (second supervisor) Treatment of innominate contracts with references to tenancy and contract law (working title) | ||
| Karoussos Irene | The protection of the employee's personality during and after the termination of the employment relationship (working title) | ||
| Kunz Laura | The parties to the employment contract in the context of the IV procedure (working title) | ||
| Meier Debora | The concept and role of the employer according to Art. 319 ff. OR and its developments in connection with the use of artificial intelligence (working title) | ||
| Miescher Joshua | Overtime and overtime in Swiss labor law (working title) | ||
| Ranert Georg | Social security implications for German cross-border commuters after termination of employment in Termination of employment in Switzerland (working title) | ||
| Robert Dominic | |||
| Sartorius Anouk | |||
| Studer Elias | Tenancy law and private autonomy (working title) | ||
| Terreros Julian Fernandez | The substantial modification of working conditions: An international labor law perspective | ||
| Wirz Stephan Marc | The insured salary in the context of loss of earnings insurance and occupational benefits insurance, taking into account the problem of variable compensation and bonus payments. | ||
| completed projects | |||
| Avyüzen Derya | Employee appraisal from a legal perspective | ||
| Balmer Michael | The subcontract as a vehicle for escaping from employment law - claims of employees of the third party contractor against the second party contractor exerting influence with a statement of intent | ||
| Boissonnas Isabel | (second supervisor) Selected aspects of labor law litigation under the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure | ||
| Burckhardt Jenny | (second supervisor) The legal consequences of defective ordinary termination in the Federal Personnel Act in comparison with the provisions of the Code of Obligations | ||
| Frei Nic | the future of work - Digitalized surveillance and the imbalance of power in the employment relationship | ||
| Gerster Laura | The procedural options for enforcing non-competition clauses in employment contracts after termination of the employment relationship | ||
| Junghanss Cornelia | Foreign nationals as employees - legal issues at the interface of labor and migration law | ||
| Kämpf Christina | Discrimination potential of the concept of disability and the IV-specific definition and clarification of the ability to work in disability insurance | ||
| Milosevic Aleksandra | The (in)compatibility of the organization of medical services in disability insurance, Suva (accident insurance) and mandatory health insurance with procedural fairness | ||
| Moser Yannick | (second supervisor) Non-competition clauses in commercial leases | ||
| Müller Balthasar | The implementation of positive duties to protect under Art. 8 ECHR in private law employment relationships under Swiss law | ||
| Schneider Elena | The deportation initiative and its impact on social security and social assistance law | ||
| Schnider Michèle | (Second supervisor) Protection of the employee against psychological pressure | ||
| Schwestermann Mark-Anthony | (second supervisor) What legal measures should Switzerland take in the fields of private employment law and social security law to combat age discrimination in employment? | ||
| Schwizer Marina | (Second supervisor) Labor law issues in the restructuring of the employer | ||
| Studer Melanie | Employment relationships under social welfare law: between subsidiarity, consideration and reasonableness - analysis of Swiss practice from a constitutional and international law perspective | ||
| Zimmermann Katharina | (second supervisor) Supplementary insurance to social health insurance - concept and procedure under the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) | ||
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