A postwoman's job is to transport a parcel from point A to point B and deliver it in a timely and safe manner. A distributor is responsible for delivering freshly printed newspapers to letterboxes early in the morning. These services are provided by the staff of various logistics companies in Switzerland on a daily basis. At present, the Swiss postal service provider sector consists of the associations KEP+Mail (Association of Private Postal Service Providers), Swissmessengerlogistic SML (Employers' Association for Bicycle Couriers and Urban Courier Services) and Kurierverband (Association of Swiss Courier Companies). To date, there has never been an umbrella association and thus an industry-wide collective labour agreement. However, this situation will now change in order to be able to offer employees better working conditions. The CEC associations and the main players in the logistics sector, including La Poste and Planzer KEP AG, have decided to join forces to form a new employers' association called "Distribution Switzerland". This also includes the newspaper and advertising distribution companies, which are now also members of an association. The aim of the new umbrella association is to negotiate a common basis for the employment conditions of distribution employees as an industry.
The new association will therefore enter into negotiations with the trade unions transfair and syndicom with a view to concluding an industry-wide collective labour agreement (CLA) for postal services and the distribution of unaddressed advertising. The new CLA is to apply to all operators and sub-contractors who provide postal services within the scope of the Swiss Postal Act, i.e. who receive, take delivery of, sort, transport and distribute addressed items weighing less than 30 kilos. Newspaper and advertising distributors engaged in the distribution of unaddressed leaflets and free newspapers are not considered to be postal service providers under the Postal Act. However, the similarity between the two activities suggests that the negotiating partners will take into account the terms of engagement of both sectors. If these negotiations are successful, the aim of the social partners is to ask the Federal Council to declare the new CLA binding.
The same requirements for all
Logistics companies play an important role in the Swiss economy and society through the services they provide. The work done by their employees on a daily basis is particularly demanding. The negotiating parties therefore want to establish minimum requirements for employment conditions in this important sector by means of the sectoral CLA.
The parties involved will provide further information on the content of the CLA and the further procedure once the negotiations have been concluded, which is expected to be sometime in 2022.
List of companies involved
KEP+Mail:
7Days Media Services GmbH, Frankfurt/Main (Muttenz branch)
DHL Express (Switzerland) SA
DHL Parcel (Switzerland) AG
DPD (Schweiz) AG
FedEx Express Switzerland Sàrl
GO! Express & Logistics (Schweiz) AG
Logistik2000 AG
Night Star Express Schweiz AG
Quickmail AG
SwissMail International SA
TNT Swiss Post GmbH
transLink.ch AG
swissconnect sa
Swissmessengerlogistic (SML):
Associazione Saetta Verde
Beamer AG Velogourmet
Chaskis SA
die Fliege Velokurier St. Gallen GmbH
Genossenschaft Veloblitz
Genossenschaft Velokurier Winterthur
krick cyclomessagerie
KurierZentrale GmbH
La Vélopostale Genève
notime AG
vélocité riviera sàrl
vélocité Sàrl
Velokurier Bern Genossenschaft
Velokurier Biel/Bienne GmbH
Velokurier Luzern Zug AG
VéloValais Sàrl
Kurierverband:
AKS Autokurier-Service GmbH
Blitzzz Kurier & Logistik AG
Citytrans GmbH
Flash Delivery Services AG
Meierexpress Sàrl
Metropol Kurier GmbH
overnight.ch gmbh
Rübli Kurier GmbH
Association of Newspaper and Advertising Distributors (VZ&W):
Epsilon SA
Direct Mail Company AG
Presto Presse-Vertriebs AG
SCHAZO AG
Bureau d’Adresses de Neuchâtel SA
Somedia Distribution AG
Aarmail AG
AZ Vertriebs AG
Pomona Media AG (Facteurs du Valais)
VS Vertriebs GMBH
Stand-alon entities involved:
Planzer KEP AG
Poste CH SA
