BERN: Temporary employees worked a total of 161 million hours and earned total wages of 4.7 billion francs, said temporary staffing association, which conducts research into the temporary staffing market every four years. Almost a quarter of such workers surveyed earned more than 30 francs an hour, while the rest earned between 25 and 29.90 francs an hour.
The temporary staffing industry in Switzerland reported a turnover of 6.5 billion francs last year, up from 5.2 billion francs in 2010, an increase of more than 21 percent. While there is no one kind of temporary worker, statistics showed they are increasingly well qualified. In 2014, 69 percent of such employees had high professional qualifications.
Around 300,000 workers were hired last year under contracts fixed for a limited period of time, Swiss staffing, an employers’ association that represents temporary staffing companies said.
