Regional employment center

The RAV (Regional Employment Centers) are a state institution for the unemployed in Switzerland . As a rule, they are the first point of contact for people who have become unemployed and who reside in Switzerland. If they become unemployed, they must register with the local RAV immediately.

The RAV are the largest job placement platform in Switzerland and employ around 1,500 people. They advise the unemployed and support them in their search for a new job. The RAV also organizes courses for the unemployed. In addition, it is checked whether the unemployed person tries hard enough for a new job.

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Contrary to popular misconception not pay the RAV unemployment benefit, but rather for the actual payout is ultimately unemployment insurance fund responsible. This represents a separate office, which the unemployed rarely has to go to directly nowadays, since the office is no longer "stamped" ("stamping" was an obligation for the unemployed to go to the cash register weekly or daily and register unemployment). In the canton of Zug, for example, the weekly "stamping" at the municipal employment offices was abolished in January 1998. Instead, the RAV - which only needs to be visited once a month to submit a form and, if necessary, for a conversation - regulates the processes up to the payment. (The term "stamping" has remained, however, especially among Swiss citizens who were still familiar with the old system, "stamping" is still a synonym for "being unemployed".)

The RAV opened around 1996. The RAV check claims and also try to prevent abuse. Misconduct by the recipients (too few applications written, registered too late, missed appointments ...) are sanctioned with so-called hiring days. Setting days are reference days that are deducted.

The RAV make an important contribution to supplying the regional labor market with workers.

Dates and duties of the unemployed

Unemployed people have to visit the RAV about once a month:

For some RAVs, the fixed date is the "check-up day" on which the yellow form "Details of the insured person", on which the unemployed person records their current status (interim earnings, "are you still unemployed?") For the respective month must be submitted. Who has the control day on which day depends on the first letter of the surname. During this day you can visit the RAV at any time within business hours (various advisors in small cabins with vacant / occupied lamps wait for you and the process only takes about 5 minutes). The day of the check-up is generally one day towards the end of the month. In the case of smaller RAVs that do not have such booths, the form is handed in during a personal conversation with the advisor, which also reduces the administrative effort and costs.

Another - depending on the RAV, the only - monthly appointment is the "interview with the personal advisor", during which the form "Proof of personal work efforts" must be submitted, on which all applications are entered that were written in the past month ( can also be managed and printed out as an Excel or PDF file). If possible, you should also bring copies of the application letters and any rejections with you. A certain number of applications must be written per month.

The unemployed person is obliged to do everything reasonable to avoid and shorten his or her unemployment (to make a targeted effort, usually in the form of a proper application, for a new job, if necessary also outside of the previous occupation. Blind applications can only serve as a supplement. )

The unemployed person must provide the RAV with evidence of their job search on a monthly basis.

The unemployed must accept a reasonable job.

In addition, the unemployed person is obliged to notify his enforcement authorities of any change in connection with his ALE entitlement (e.g. achieving interim earnings, starting self-employment , illness or accident)

Special case: If an unemployed person takes e.g. B. participates in an employment project, he can fulfill his monthly obligations with this. He can also take part in special courses.

Sponsorship

The sponsorship is usually state. As the only RAV in Switzerland, however, the RAV of the canton of Zug , which actively seeks contact with employers in the region, is managed by an institution under private law, the Association for Labor Market Measures (VAM).

literature

Chantal Magnin: Advice and control. Contradictions in the state processing of unemployment (= writings on the social question. 1). Seismo, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-03777-027-9 (also: Bern, University, dissertation, 2005).

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