Sickness and health in the employment relationship
I. Articles in journals
| 2025 | Digital divide, in: CMS May 2025 |
| 2024 | |
| 2021 | Social Security and Labor Law: The Covid-19-reponse of Switzerland, in: Noticias Cielo 3/2021, p. 1-5. |
| Selected Legal Issues of the Home Office - In the Context of the Corona Pandemic and Beyond, in: Jusletter of February 22 (together with Jonas Eggmann). | |
| Corona and the world of work - stocktaking and assessment of the current legal situation, in: Jusletter of February 8, 2021 (together with Jonas Eggmann). | |
| 2020 | New situation: Prevention of work due to Covid-19, in: Penso 03/2020, p. 28-30. |
| Covid-19 and Labor Law: Switzerland, in: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1S 2020, p. 1-5. | |
Particularly vulnerable workers, in: Jusletter of April 20, 2020, p. 1-16. | |
| Corona Ordinances of the Federal Council on Unemployment Insurance and Loss of Earnings, in: SZS Online First of March 26, 2020. | |
| Clarification of employment law issues in connection with the coronavirus, in: Jusletter of March 23, 2020. | |
2018 | |
2017 | State liability for breach of duty of care due to organizational deficiencies and lack of consideration for health burdens, in: ARV - Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitslosenversicherung, (2017), pp. 179-185. |
No legal basis for the monitoring of an injured employee by statutory accident insurance, in: Arbeit und Recht, Deutsches und Europäisches Arbeitsrecht 7 (2017), Vol. 65, pp. 303-307. | |
2015 | Different ways to fight against unfair dismissal on the grounds of HIV/AIDS Status, European Labor Law Journal, Volume 6 (2015), No. 4, 373 ff. |
The underestimated importance of the ECHR and the case law of the ECtHR for labor law, in: AJP 12 (2015) 1671 et seq. | |
| Freelance nursing care, in: Pflegerecht 3, p. 158. | |
2014 | |
| The specific case - documentation obligation in nursing care?, in: Pflegerecht 4, p. 243 ff. (together with Anita Zimmermann). | |
| Compatibility of minimum prices for alcoholic beverages with the Free Trade Agreement and the Federal Constitution, in: Jusletter of February 17, 2014 (together with Jens Lehne). | |
2013 | Conflicts in the nursing employment relationship, in: Pflegerecht 4 (2013) 224 ff. |
Compulsory vaccination in healthcare companies under private law, in: Pflegerecht 3 (2013) 165 ff. (together with: Julia Hug). | |
| The specific case - legacy and official activity, in: Pflegerecht 3, p. 184 ff. (together with: Nadine Wantz). | |
| Obstacle-free access to education - duties of higher education institutions, in: Jusletter of April 15, 2013 (together with Eylem Copur). | |
2012 | Work and illness - ways back into the world of work, in: Sécurité sociale (CHSS) 6 (2012) 388 ff. |
| Compulsory smoking cessation for "sick smokers" (review of the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court 9C_69/2011 of July 11, 2011, BGE 137 V 295), in: Jusletter of January 30, 2012 (together with Sandra Kuratli). | |
| The HIV test in the light of human rights, in: Jusletter of November 26, 2012. | |
| Directive on the handling of monetary donations from patients lawful, termination for non-compliance permissible (comments on the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court, I. Civil Division, of January 25, 2011 (4A_613/2010)), in Pflegerecht 1, p. 43ff. | |
| Unjustified dismissal of a nurse without notice - four months' compensation (comments on the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court, I. Civil Division, of November 2, 2011 ( 4A_215/2011)), in: Pflegerecht 1, p. 45 et seq. | |
Travail et maladie - les chemins du retour à la vie active, in: Sécurité sociale (CHSS) 6 (2012) 388 ff. | |
| 2011 | Coercive measures in nursing care, in: AJP 3, p. 360 ff. |
2010 | Water pipes, fumoirs and the protection of employees and consumers, two Federal Supreme Court rulings on the Bernese law on protection against passive smoking (discussion of BGE 136 I 16 and BGE 136 I 29), in: ARV 4 (2010) 254 ff. |
2009 | Perceived Discrimination against Diabetics in the Workplace and in Work-Related |
2006 | Legal guidance on alcohol, drugs and nicotine in the workplace, |
| The fifth IV revision - more control, fewer academic achievements, in: plädoyer 12, p. 28 ff. | |
2005 | The protection of personality in private law employment relationships, in: ARV 4 (2005) 225 ff. |
2002 | Insurer question on drug use, in: digma 4 (2002) 194 ff. |
II Articles in anthologies
| 2023 | Selected interfaces between employment law and the law of accident insurance and occupational benefits, in: Kieser Ueli/Hürzeler Marc/Heinrich Stefanie J. (eds.), JaSo 2023 - Jahrbuch zum Sozialversicherungsrecht, Zurich/St. Gallen 2023, pp. 117-142 (together with Aleksandra Milosevic). | |
2021 | Securing livelihoods and health protection during Corona through labor and social security law, in: Kurt Pärli/Weber-Fritsch Tabea R. (eds.), Symposium, #iuscoronae, Rechtswissenschaft in der Corona-Krise - Tagungsband mit Referaten zu Forschungsarbeiten an der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Basel, Basel 2021 (together with Bettina Fischer). | |
| 2020 | Workplace-related incapacity for work in terms of labor law and effects on social insurance, in: Lendfers Miriam/Gächter Thomas/Mosimann Hans-Jakob (eds.), Allegro con moto, Festschrift on the 65th birthday of Ueli Kieser, 1st edition, Zurich/St. Gallen 2020, pp. 421-442 (together with Alain Borer). | |
2019 | Commentary on Articles 45, 46, 47, 53, 54, 54a, 55 and 56 UVG, in: Frésard-Fellay Ghislaine/Leuzinger Susanne/Pärli Kurt (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Unfallversicherungsgesetz, Basel 2019 (together with Laura Kunz). | |
2018 | Daily sickness benefits insurance as an instrument for securing earned income in the event of illness, in: Emmenegger Susan/Hrubesch-Millauer Stephanie/Krauskopf Frédéric/Wolf Stephan (eds.), Brücken bauen - Festschrift für Thomas Koller, Bern 2018, pp. 685-701. | |
Die Teilzeitfalle in der Invalidenversicherung, in: Kieser Ueli/Lendfers Miriam, JaSo 2018, Jahrbuch zum Sozialversicherungsrecht, Zurich/St. Gallen 2018, pp. 179-192 (together with Alain Borer). | ||
2014 | Voluntary daily allowance insurance under the KVG and VVG, in: Steiger-Sackmann | |
How does professional integration succeed? Findings from the SNSF study "Berufliche Eingliederung von Personen mit länger andauernder Arbeitsunfähigkeit", in: Kieser Ueli/Lendfers Miriam, JaSo 2014, Jahrbuch zum Sozialversicherungsrecht, St. Gallen 2014, p. 137 ff. (together with: Guggisberg Jürg/Hug Julia). | ||
2012 | Activation of employees with health impairments - effects on social rights, in: Estermann Josef (ed.), Der Kampf ums Recht, Akteure und Interessen im Blick der interdisziplinären Rechtsforschung, Beiträge zum zweiten Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologischen Vereinigungen, Vienna 2011, Beckenried/Vienna 2012, p. 293 ff. | |
III Books as author
2007 | Law against HIV/AIDS discrimination in the employment relationship, Bern 2007 (together with: Caplazi Alexandra/Suter Caroline). |
2003 | Datenaustausch zwischen Arbeitgeber und Versicherung, Probleme der Bearbeitung von Gesundheitsdaten der Arbeitnehmer bei der Begründung des privatrechtlichen Arbeitsverhältnisses, Diss. Sankt Gallen, Bern 2003 (dissertation). |
Aids, Recht und Geld, Eine Untersuchung der rechtlichen und wirtschaftlichen Probleme von Menschen mit HIV/Aids, Zurich 2003 (together with: Müller Kucera Karin/Spycher Stefan). |
IV. Books as editor
2019 | Basler Kommentar zum Unfallversicherungsgesetz, (ed. together with Frésard-Fellay Ghislaine/Leuzinger Susanne), Basel, to be published in August 2019. |
V. Reviewer's report
2009 | The responsibility of employers for health protection, Community legal framework and enforcement in selected EU states, preliminary study commissioned by SECO, Winterthur 2009 (together with: Steiger-Sackmann/Stöckle Imelda). |
| 6. December 2024 | Health damage as an obstacle to benefits in daily allowance insurance, occupational benefits and unemployment insurance, Recht aktuell - 8th Basler Sozialversicherungstagung, Basel and online |
| 2. December 2024 | Work-related incapacity for work: No protection against dismissal and other consequences, SGB legal conference, Bern |
| 10. March 2023 | Conflicts, illness, dismissal - case constellations and current case law, Recht aktuell - 7th Basel Employment Law Conference, Basel |
| 25. June 2022 | Work - law and diabetes, 2nd Swiss T1D Day - presentations and workshops for type 1 diabetics, Olten |
| 10. February 2022 | Health protection in the workplace from a public health perspective, Schulthess: Arbeitsrecht im Gesundheitswesen, Basel (online) |
| 03. November 2021 | Health protection in the workplace from a public health perspective, Conference on employment law in the healthcare sector Crisis in the healthcare sector - crisis in employment law? |
29. January 2020 | Employment of social welfare recipients - not only but also health aspects, University Hospital Basel, Medjus à la carte, Basel. |
6. December 2019 | Incapacity for work in terms of labor law: Proof and consequences of the obligation to continue to pay wages and protection against dismissal, 3rd Basel Social Insurance Law Conference, recht aktuell, Basel. |
23. January 2019 | Private law employment contract and CLA/collective bargaining agreement as an instrument of health protection at the workplace, ASIM, University Hospital Basel. |
07. December 2018 | Invalidity and labor law, Recht Aktuell - 2nd Basel Social Insurance Law Conference, Basel. |
14. September 2018 | Presenteeism - (also) a labor law challenge, SIZ Care Forum, Brugg AG. |
14. September 2018 | Employment and social insurance law aspects of work-related incapacity to work", St. Gallen Employment Law Day, Lucerne. |
26. June 2017 | Why "enforced" activation of sick employees leads to presentism, who is responsible and who has to pay for the costs, lecture at the Labor Law Research Conference in Toronto. |
11. May 2017 | Work and cancer - labor and social security law aspects, Swiss symposium on psycho-oncology, Bern. |
07. April 2017 | Continued payment of wages and daily allowance insurance: Old and new problems (and solutions), Recht aktuell conference, University of Basel. |
17. November 2016 | Work, illness, disability: labor and social security law issues, conference "Krebsbetroffene am Arbeitsplatz" of the Swiss Cancer Foundation, the Swiss Employers' Association and the Swiss Cancer League, Zurich. |
23. September 2016 | Work, illness, disability, discrimination: What should people with a chronic illness bear in mind?, Gaps and pitfalls in insurance law, Zurich. |
08. March 2016 | HIV-related termination of employment contracts: The importance of human rights, Bern University Hospital, HIV Tuesday Club, Bern. |
10. February 2016 | "Discrimination against people with disabilities in working life", Evaluation of the Federal Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against People with Disabilities (BehiG) and effects of the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Asim training event, University Hospital Basel, Basel. |
16. September 2015 | Invalids in the employment relationship, Invalidity - cross-cutting issues in Swiss law, Conference of the Institute of Law and Legal Practice of the University of St. Gallen, Zurich. |
26. June 2015 | Dismissal on the grounds of HIV/AIDS status. A reflection with reference to three court decisions at different levels, International Labor law research Conference, Amsterdam. |
4. July 2013 | Working at any prize? - Presenteeism in the workplace, 2nd Winterthur Conference on Labor Law, Illness in the Employment Relationship: New Phenomena - Current Legal Issues, Winterthur. |
25. November 2011 | Health data in the employment relationship - legal rules, Symposium "Gesundheitsrecht am Puls der Zeit", Principality of Liechtenstein. |
4. September 2008 | The medical measure is suitable to significantly improve the ability to work, Academy for Insurance Law (Asim)-Annual Symposium, University of Basel. |
14.- March 16, 2008 | HIV / Aids discrimination in context, Law against HIV / Aids discrimination in the employment relationship: Selected findings, 12th Munich Aids Days, Berlin. |
13. March 2008 | Data Protection Law: Pregnancy, Maternity and Illness, St. Gallen Conference on Labor and Law, Zurich. |
| Project | Research leader | Status |
| The coronavirus in the context of labor and social security law | Pärli, Kurt | Ongoing |
Comment on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | Pärli, Kurt | Ongoing |
| 16. June 20225 | Contribution to the ecoTalk program on SRF on the subject: Less stress at work - How can we manage that? |
| 15. February 2021 | Article in the Tagesanzeiger on labor law and dismissals in the corona crisis |
| 23. November 2020 | Article in the program Rendez-vous on Radio SRF on dealing with harassment cases at RTS |
| 18. October 2020 | Interview on Telebasel on the subject of wage entitlement during quarantine after returning from a corona risk area |
29. March 2016 | Studio interview in the Kassensturz program on the subject of stress in the workplace |
Master's theses - ongoing and completed projects
Achermann Bettina | Sexual harassment in the workplace |
Bolsinger Yannick | Key points of a socially acceptable and economically viable mandatory daily sickness benefits insurance scheme |
Furler Christian | Workplace-related incapacity for work |
Gschwind Andreas | Bonus / malus in daily sickness benefits insurance: admissions or not? |
Habegger Alexandra | Self-fault in the event of an accident under the UVG - coordination between the reduction and refusal of academic achievements under accident insurance law and the obligation to continue salary payments under employment law |
Hagenbuch Andreas | Protection of mental health and whistleblowing |
| Hässle Noëmi | Psychosocial risks in the workplace - the demands on employers with regard to health protection |
| Löffler Julia | Working conditions for nursing staff during COVID-19 |
Pfister Patrizia | The role of the employer in accident insurance |
| Pileggi Sefora | Equivalence in group daily sickness benefits insurance |
Ramadani Hava | Legal assessment of health apps in the new world of work |
Stokar Evelyne | Health protection in the changing workplace using the example of electrosmog and hypersensitivity |
| Tschan Marvin | Short-time work in the Covid crisis |
Waldvogel Kassandra | No pain, no gain - presenteeism in the context of labor and social security law |
Walther Gülcan | The role of the employer in disability insurance |
Wenger Maria | 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 |
Zimmermann Sophie | Proof of incapacity for work in terms of labor law |
Dissertations - ongoing and completed projects
| Kunz Laura | The role of employers in cases of incapacity for work, (re)integration and invalidity |
Neuschwander Chantal | Continued payment of wages in the event of illness in accordance with Art. 324a CO and insurance solutions - problems and solutions de lege lata and de lege ferenda (working title) |