Social Security for Posted Workers CH-EU (CH-EFTA and CH-Contracting States see French and Italian versions for other brochures on posting in English)

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Social Insurance Office FSIO International Affairs

Social Security for Posted Workers

CH - EU

January 2024

Who is the target audience?

This practical guide is aimed at workers posted:

• between Switzerland and a Member State of the European Union (EU) insofar as the workers are Swiss nationals or have citizenship of an EU Member State. 1

The guide does not concern workers posted:

• between Switzerland and an EU Member State (with the exception of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Romania 2) insofar as they are neither a Swiss national nor have citizenship of an EU Member State. See guide “Social Security for Posted Workers – Contracting States outside EU/EFTA”;

• between Switzerland and non-EU Member States with whom Switzerland has concluded a social security agreement. 3 See guide “Social Security for Posted Workers – Contracting States outside EU/EFTA”;

• between Switzerland and an EFTA Member State 4. See guide “Social Security for Posted Workers – CH-EFTA”;

• between Switzerland and States with whom Switzerland has not concluded a social security agreement. See guide “Social Security for Posted Workers – Non-contracting States”.

The EU Member States are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden.

The guide “Social Security for Posted Workers – Non-contracting States” is aimed at all workers posted between Switzerland and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta or Poland, who are neither a Swiss national nor have citizenship of an EU Member State. Switzerland has concluded social security agreements with the following non-EU/EFTA Member States: Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada (incl. Quebec), Chile, China, India, Israel, Japan, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Philippines, Republic of San Marino, South Korea, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The EFTA Member States are: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

Introduction Based on the Agreement between the Swiss Confederation, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other, on the free movement of persons (Agreement on Free Movement), Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004 applies to all social security matters which concern the relationship between Switzerland and the EU Member States. It replaces Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71.

The purpose of Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004 is to coordinate European social security systems. It regulates, among other things, the temporary posting of workers abroad.