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Corona vaccination is probably mandatory for many Swiss employees
According to the “SonntagsZeitung”, numerous employees of the Swiss airline have a mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus. Although the group is striving to “basically have no mandatory vaccinations for employees,” the newspaper said. However, Swiss hopes that certain countries will make entry dependent on a coronavirus vaccination certificate. So it’s quite possible that this also applies to pilots and flight attendants, he said. Deployed employees would have to be vaccinated.
Switzerland should be able to cope financially with the crown crisis
Lausanne economics professor and member of the federal government’s coronavirus task force, Marius Brülhart, does not see the large debt burden in Switzerland as as problematic. “Hardly any other country in the world has so much fiscal ammunition to prop up the economy. If we add a moderate economic growth of one to three percent per year, it becomes even clearer that we should not have to worry about overcoming the economic crisis, “the scientist told” SonntagsBlick. ” The federal government could be in debt for 50 years at a negative interest rate. “Imagine a mortgage offer like this,” he emphasized. In terms of fiscal policy, Switzerland would have no problem borrowing if necessary, he said.
Compared to the “NZZ am Sonntag”, Brülhart emphasized that the effectiveness of personal liability is overestimated in light of the latest coronavirus infection figures. “All countries are struggling to find the balance between personal responsibility and coercion. You cannot do without one or the other, ”he said.
Swiss-Covid-App Raises Questions
The “SonntagsBlick” writes about quirks in the coronavirus warning app. Beat Walti, the head of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundeshaus, became infected with the coronavirus and immediately reported his infection to the Swiss-Covid app in addition to the federal administration. Walti’s neighbors on the National Council, Kurt Fluri, and the party’s president, Petra Gössi, tested negative for the corona virus. But in Gössi, the app remained silent, as confirmed to “SonntagsBlick”. However, if the distance is less than 1.5 meters for at least 15 minutes, the system should send a warning. Now you are puzzled if these conditions were met or if perhaps there is a glitch with the app.
SBB’s wage dispute ends in arbitration court
According to a report by “NZZ am Sonntag”, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) will go to arbitration court after unsuccessful wage negotiations with the unions. The neutral body could be summoned in disputes, but so far this has rarely happened. This time, however, SBB threatened the arbitration tribunal from the start, unionists told the newspaper. The railroad’s course of action irritated the social partners because they had been willing to compromise, he said. Employees are willing to make concessions, although staff have always been fully engaged during the time of the coronavirus, the Locomotive Drivers Association also supports. However, the measures proposed by SBB would primarily affect young people and newcomers and lead to drastic wage losses for them, it was also said.
Farmers are mad at SRF
According to a report by “SonntagsZeitung”, Swiss television enraged farmers. Two programs “Kassensturz” and “Netz Natur” practically opened the voting campaign for the two pesticide initiatives. Therefore, the television ombudsman received a complaint against both programs, he said. The farmers’ association talks to the newspaper about a campaign journalism. One program showed the pioneers of alternative production methods in Swiss agriculture. However, there was only good and bad about the show, critics said. On the one hand, conventional farming would poison nature and on the other hand, the clean Heidi Switzerland of organic farmers was shown. The Swiss Farmers Association also complained in the newspaper that it had not been given the opportunity to comment. The program holds conventional agriculture accountable for all negative environmental impacts of food production and consumption, a spokeswoman for the association said in the Sunday newspaper.
Swiss cities resist larger parking spaces
According to the “NZZ am Sonntag”, cities are fighting against the new norm for larger parking spaces. The Association of Highways and Transportation Experts (VSS) has put forward a new proposal to adapt the relevant standard to the size of parking spaces and this is not very popular among cities. Currently, a standard width of 2.35 meters is applied for private parking lots and 2.50 meters for public parking lots. “In view of the limited street space, the expansion of parking spaces should be avoided compared to the current standard,” the city association wrote in a statement. Director Renate Amstutz also told the newspaper that space was at a premium and had to be sufficient for sidewalks, bike paths or meeting rooms. “Larger parking spaces can enlarge conflict zones,” Amstutz fears. Therefore, the city association demands that local authorities can weigh and that the new rule is not legally binding.
Longines terminates contracts with St. Moritz
According to a report by “SonntagsZeitung”, the Swatch watch brand, Longines, has canceled its contracts with the luxury spa town of St. Moritz. Longines decided in the summer to resize the cooperation agreements with St. Moritz, the company confirmed to the newspaper. Longines had been working with St. Moritz since 1894, he said. The result of the decision is an empty exhibition space in a prominent location.
Does the Swiss industry have too close ties with China?
According to the “NZZ am Sonntag”, the Swiss trade association SGV has too close ties with China. The network between SGV exponents and representatives of China’s communist regime consists, on the one hand, of companies and associations, on the other hand, of personal relationships. The real doctor of connections is Yuming Yang, a native Chinese who lives in western Switzerland, he told himself. The official sits alongside trade association director Hans-Ulrich Bigler on the board of the Swiss Association of China Investment Platforms based in Bern. However, the native Chinese also has a remarkable proximity to the Chinese authoritarian regime and should deal with propaganda. The Chinese Communist Party wanted to capture important decision makers in Switzerland and use them for propaganda purposes, he said. The trade association does not want to know anything about the influence of the Middle Kingdom towards the newspaper. “As long as the Swiss Confederation treats the second largest trading partner as a strategic partner, China will also be a partner of the largest umbrella organization of the Swiss economy,” explained the SGV in this regard.
The Swiss foundation wants to regulate the handling of health data
According to the “NZZ am Sonntag”, a Swiss foundation wants to lay the foundations for a new organization that will regulate the management of health data worldwide. Behind the project, which is supported by the city and canton of Geneva, the federal government and numerous leading scientists, is the Basel-based Fondation Botnar and its director Stefan Germann. A group from the planned organization had already started operating under the name I-DAIR, it was said. It is based at the Institute for Global Health in Geneva, where the World Health Organization is also based. Germann was able to win former Indian ambassador Amandeep Gill as director of the organization, he said. It is well connected with the United Nations. The objective of the foundation is a uniform regulation of the handling of patient data, which is of great interest to research, the pharmaceutical industry or insurance companies.
