Good practice

Suíça – Licença de Paternidade Legal — Direito EOG de Duas Semanas após Referendo de Setembro de 2020

Switzerland · Bern · See the Switzerland profile

Aprovada por referendo suíço (60,3% sim, set. 2020) e em vigor desde 1 jan. 2021, a licença de paternidade legal de duas semanas paga 80% do salário (máx. CHF 196/dia) pelo seguro de compensação existente. Mais de 50.000 pais utilizaram-na em 2022, superando projeções iniciais.

50000 fathers

Pais que utilizaram a licença de paternidade (2022)

60.3%

Aprovação no referendo (Sept 2020)

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Federal Social Insurance Office (BSV / OFAS)
Period: 2021–present
Keywords: government, parental leave, social insurance

Context

A Suíça não tinha licença de paternidade estatutária até um referendo em 27 de setembro de 2020 (60,34% a favor) introduzir 10 dias úteis de licença paga, em vigor desde 1 de janeiro de 2021 e financiada através da Lei de Compensação de Rendimento (EOG/LAPG) existente, com uma pequena contribuição partilhada entre empregador e trabalhador — sem novo imposto ou regime.

Results

Dados da SECO mostram que mais de 50.000 pais utilizaram o benefício em 2022, superando as projeções iniciais do governo. A Assembleia Federal está agora a debater uma proposta de licença parental partilhada de 38 semanas, indicando um contínuo impulso institucional.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-23
Federal Social Insurance Office (BSV / OFAS) — accessed 2026-06-23
AHV-IV — Allowance for the other parent (paternity) — accessed 2026-06-23
WEF — Swiss vote approves nationwide paternity leave — accessed 2026-06-23
Mercer — Switzerland to offer paternity leave — accessed 2026-06-23
iamexpat — Expanded parental leave in Switzerland — accessed 2026-06-23

Quality score: 74/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 37% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability2/3

Referendum-validated, insurance-financed model (no new fund needed) is replicable; comparable 2-week statutory paternity leave now exists across the EU, confirming the model's viability.

Impact on gender equality1/1

Directly targets Switzerland's asymmetric care distribution; 50,000+ fathers in 2022 (SECO) represent measurable first-year adoption of shared care responsibility.

Effectiveness1/1

Take-up exceeded initial government projections, confirming the policy reached intended beneficiaries.

Efficiency1/1

Financed via a 0.045% increment to existing EOG insurance; no new administrative infrastructure, minimising employer and public implementation costs.

Evaluated outcomes0/1

Programme in force only since January 2021; SECO take-up data are administrative counts, not an independent causal evaluation of gender-equality outcomes.

Sustainability1/1

Permanent statutory entitlement under the Income Compensation Act; no sunset clause; successor shared-parental-leave legislation in parliamentary debate.

Achievement / evidence1/1

Over 50,000 fathers used the benefit in 2022 (SECO); referendum approval at 60.3% confirms strong social legitimacy and substantial uptake.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

Directly embeds fathers' care responsibility in employment law, beginning to equalise statutory care entitlements between parents.

Curator validation0/1

Awaiting curator review.

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Evidoria. Suíça – Licença de Paternidade Legal — Direito EOG de Duas Semanas após Referendo de Setembro de 2020. Persistent ID: 051d8905-128a-49c0-886e-c99c8b24e920.

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