Federal Council against better unemployment benefits for entrepreneurs
Published: Wednesday, Apr 10th 2024, 15:10
Updated At: Wednesday, Apr 10th 2024, 15:40
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The Federal Council does not want to improve unemployment insurance benefits for entrepreneurs who work as employees in their own company. It states that the corresponding plans in parliament amount to cushioning entrepreneurial risks.
This is not the purpose of unemployment insurance, wrote the Federal Council in its report on a bill submitted by the National Council's Social Affairs and Health Committee (SGK-N). The current regulation is sufficient. Entrepreneurs already have access to unemployment insurance benefits.
According to the current law, persons in an employer-like position and their spouses who work for them must pay into unemployment insurance as self-employed persons. However, they are only entitled to unemployment benefits as soon as the employer-like position is definitively terminated.
The proposal of the SGK-N majority wants to change this: Entrepreneurs who pay into the unemployment fund should be entitled to unemployment benefit after a waiting period of twenty days, provided they have worked in the company in question for at least two years, are no longer employed and are not a member of the board of directors.
The Federal Council sees a risk of abuse in the amendments and therefore wishes to maintain the status quo. It has therefore requested that the bill not be approved. The Zurich FDP National Councillor Andri Silberschmidt provided the impetus for this with a parliamentary initiative.
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