Glossaire
- 1er pilier
- 2er pilier
- 3er pilier
- AC
- Age de la retraite
- Age, déterminant
- Allocation perte de gain (APG/Maternité)
- Allocations familiales (LAFam)
- Année de l’évaluation
- APG/maternité
- Assurance chômage
- Assurance d’indemnité journalière en cas de maladie
- Assurance maladie (LAMal)
- Assurance militaire (LAM)
- Assurance vieillesse et survivants
- Assurance-accidents (LAA)
- Assurance-invalidité et prestations d‘invalidité
- Assurances sociales
- Autonomes et semi-autonomes
- Avoir de vieillesse LPP
- Avoir de vieillesse, personnel
- AVS – 1er pilier
- AVS – salaire
- Bilan technique d’assurance
- Bonifications de vieillesse
- Caisse de pension (CP)
- Caisse de prévoyance patronale / Institution patronale
- Capital de prévoyance
- Capital en cas de décès, capital-décès
- Case Management (gestion des cas)
- CC
- Centrale du 2e pilier
- Certificat personnel
- CO – Code des obligations
- Code civil suisse (CC)
- Code des obligations (CO)
- Communauté de vie assimilable au mariage
- Compte de libre passage
- Conseil de fondation
- Cotisations
- Cotisations, exemption
- Découvert
- Encouragement à la propriété du logement (OEPL)
- Excédents (legal quote)
- Exemption de cotisations
- Expert en caisse de pension
- Fondation de placement
- Fondations collectives
- Fondations de libre passage
- Fonds de garantie LPP
- Fonds de prévoyance
- Fortune de prévoyance
- Gestion de la santé en entreprise
- Gestion des absences
- Gestion des cas
- Impôt à la source
- Incapacité de gain
- Incapacité de travail
- Institution de prévoyance
- Institution supplétive LPP
- LAA – Assurance-accidents
- LAFam – allocations familiales
- LAI – assurance invalidité
- LAM
- LAMal
- LAVS
- LCA – Loi fédérale sur le contrat d’assurance
- LFLP – Loi fédérale sur le libre passage
- Libération du paiement des cotisations
- Liquidation partielle
- LPP - régime obligatoire
- LPP – Loi sur la prévoyance professionnelle
- LPP, Avoir de vieillesse
- Modèle d’assurance complète
- Montant de coordination
- OEPL - ordonnance sur l'encouragement à la propriété du logement au moyen de la prévoyance professionnelle
- OFAS – Office fédéral des assurances sociales
- OLP – Ordonnance sur le libre passage
- OPP 1–3: Ordonnances sur la prévoyance professionnelle
- Parité – Représentation paritaire
- PC – Prestations complémentaires
- Plan de prévoyance
- Police de libre passage
- Présentation des comptes
- Prestation de libre passage
- Prestations complémentaires – PC
- Prestations de sortie
- Prévoyance en faveur du personnel
- Prévoyance professionnelle en Suisse, 2e pilier
- Prévoyance vieillesse en Suisse
- Prévoyance volontaire – 3e pilier
- Primauté
- Primauté des cotisations
- Prime de risque
- Principe/système des trois piliers
- Rachat dans la prévoyance professionnelle
- Réassurance
- Régime surobligatoire
- Règlement d'une institution de prèvoyance
- Règlement de prévoyance
- Rente d'enfant de retraité
- Rente d'orphelin
- Rente de conjoint
- Rente de substitution
- Rente de veuf/veuve
- Rente de vieillesse
- Réserve de fluctuation
- Réserve mathématique
- Réserves de cotisations de l’employeur
- Retrait sous forme de capital
- Retraite anticipée ou préretraite
- Retraite, départ ou mise à la retraite
- Revenu exonéré de cotisation
- Salaire
- Salaire annuel
- Salaire assuré
- Salaire brut
- Salaire déterminant
- Salaire soumis à cotisation
- Sortie
- Sortie, prestations
- Subsides
- Surveillance
- Swiss GAAP RPC 26 - Présentation des comptes
- Système de la capitalisation
- Système de la répartition
- Taux de conversion
- Taux de conversion LPP (TC)
- Taux de conversion réglementaire
- Taux de conversion technique
- Taux de couverture
- Taux d’intérêt minimal ou rémunération minimale OPP2
- Taux d’intérêt technique
- Travailleur indépendant
- Valeur actuelle
- Versement en espèces
Glossary
- 1st pillar
- 2nd Pillar
- 2nd Pillar Central Office
- 3rd pillar
- Accident Insurance (UVG)
- Actuarial interest
- Actuarial reserve
- Adjustable contribution procedure
- Age, determining
- AHV (OASI) salary
- AHV (OASI) – 1st pillar
- ALV
- Annual salary
- Annual salary subject to contributions
- Assessment year
- Autonomous and semi-autonomous
- Board of Trustees
- Case management
- Cash payment
- Code of Obligations (CO)
- Cohabitation
- Collective foundations
- Contributions
- Contributions, exemptions
- Conversion rate
- Coordination sum
- Cover ratio
- Cover shortfall
- Current value
- Daily benefits insurance
- DI – Disability Insurance
- Disability Insurance and disability pension
- Early retirement
- Encouragement of Home Ownership (OEHO)
- Equality – equal representation
- Exemption from contributions
- Family Allowances
- Federal social insurance office (FSIO), Switzerland
- Financial reporting
- FLV – Federal Law on Vesting
- FSIO
- Funded pension system
- Gross salary
- Guarantee fund, LOB
- Incapacity for work
- Income exempt from contributions
- Insured salary
- Investment foundation
- Investment regulations
- Investments
- LOB guarantee fund
- LOB old-age savings
- LOB – Law on occupational retirement
- LOB, mandatory
- Loss-of-income fund (EO) (EO/maternity insurance)
- Lump sum payable at death
- Lump-sum withdrawal
- Mandatory LOB
- MI
- Military Insurance (MI)
- Occupational pension funds in Switzerland, 2nd pillar
- OEHO
- Old-age pension
- Old-age savings, LOB
- Old-age savings, personal
- OOB 1–3: Ordinances in connection with LOB
- OOB 2 minimum interest rate
- Orphan's pension
- OV – Ordinance on Vesting
- Pension card, personal
- Pension fund
- Pension fund (PF)
- Pension fund regulations
- Pension plan
- Pension scheme
- Pension schemes
- Pensioner‘s child‘s pension
- Personal old-age savings
- Personal pension card
- Primacy amount
- Primacy of benefits
- Primacy of contributions
- Regulations of a pension fund
- Regulatory conversion rate
- Relevant salary
- Retirement age
- Retirement capital
- Retirement credits
- Retirement provision
- Retirement provision in Switzerland
- Risk capacity
- Salary
- SB – Supplementary benefits
- SCC
- Staff pension schemes
- Supervision
- Supplementary benefits – SB
- Surpluses (legal quota)
- Surviving spouse's pension
- Swiss Civil Code (SCC)
- Swiss GAAP FER 26: Financial reporting
- Technical conversion rate
- Termination
- Termination benefits
- The actuarial reserve
- Three pillar principle/system
- Transferable vested benefits
- Unemployment insurance - ALVX
Contribution rate
In 2011, the contribution rate for unemployment insurance amounts to a total of 2.2% of the gross salary. An annual contribution assessment ceiling of CHF 126,000 applies. A solidarity surcharge of 1% is levied on salaries between CHF 126,000 and CHF 315,000. The employer and the employee pay 50% of the cost.Benefits
Unemployment compensation
To receive benefits from the unemployment fund, the following preconditions must be met:- The unemployment must be reported to the local authority or the relevant Regional Employment Centre (RAV)
- Loss of a minimum of two days of work or loss of earnings
- Age: 18 to 64 (women), 18 to 65 (men)
- Must not be an OASI pensioner
- Must have paid contributions for twelve months within the last two years, i.e. must have worked as an employee in Switzerland or abroad. Military, civilian and civil defence service performed in Switzerland will be partially taken into account.
- Must be employable
- Must be actively looking for a new job
For many cases special arrangements exist which we cannot go into in this glossary.
70% of the insured OASI salary is normally paid out as unemployment compensation. 80% of the insured OASI salary is paid out.Other benefits from unemployment insurance:
Insolvency compensation
In the event of the employer becoming insolvent, the insolvency compensation will cover the loss of earnings for work already carried out for a maximum of three months.Short-time working hours compensation
Employees affected by short-time working hours will receive pay-outs for some of their salary costs for a certain period of time. This is intended to avoid the need to make staff redundant because of short-term unavoidable downtime.Bad weather compensation
Bad weather compensation is provided for downtime arising from adverse weather conditions. - UVG – Accident Insurance
- Vested benefits account
- Vested Benefits Foundation
- Vested benefits foundations
- Vested benefits policy
- Voluntary pension provision – 3rd pillar
- Widower's pension
- Withholding tax