Travail.Suisse criticizes insufficient wage increases

The umbrella organization Travail.Suisse draws a mixed assessment of the 2025 salary negotiations on Monday. The salary increases made in certain branches are “insufficient” to compensate for the drop in purchasing power that workers are facing, according to Travail.Suisse.

Employees in the health, retail and catering and hospitality sectors are particularly affected, details the umbrella organization in a press release. She estimates that a “significant” salary gap has accumulated in these branches since 2021.

This slump, however, is not general. The skies are more lenient for construction workers, carpenters or painters for example. For these professions, salary negotiations led to “satisfactory, even good” results.

But even if salary increases could be “extorted” from employers “in the context of tough negotiations”, these increases often do not fully compensate for the increase in prices, criticizes the umbrella organization. She cites in particular public service employees.

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