Swiss Bankers Association
| Swiss Bank Employees Association (SBPV) |
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| purpose | Association of employees in the finance and insurance sector |
| Chair: | Peter Wyder (Central President), Denise Chervet (Managing Director) |
| Manager: | Denise Chervet |
| Establishment date: | 1918 |
| Number of members: | 7,998 (2012) |
| Seat : | Bern , Switzerland |
| Website: | www.sbpv.ch |
The Swiss Bank Staff Association (SBPV) ( French Association suisse des employés de banque , Italian Associazione svizzera degli impiegati di banca ) is the staff association for employees in the Swiss banking and finance industry. The SBPV, founded in 1918, works in dialogue with its social partners for a sustainable Swiss financial center with secure jobs and fair working conditions.
organization
The highest organs are the assembly of delegates and the management with the central president at the head. The central secretariat with headquarters in Bern and regional offices in Zurich and Geneva manage and coordinate the association's work. In Bern-Solothurn, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, Zurich, Northwestern Switzerland, French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino, regional associations support the work of the SBPV on site. The SBPV sets up standing commissions for individual topics: The commission for salary and social policy and the parity commission in which all social partners are represented (SBPV, KV Switzerland and as a representative of the employers of the AGV banks).
Goals and Activities
The main goal is the professional and economic well-being of all employees in the financial industry. The SBPV relies on a social partnership within the framework of which collective negotiations on working conditions, wage systems and job security are conducted. The result of the social partnership is the agreement on the employment conditions of bank employees (VAB). It lays down the minimum standards for working hours, holidays, salaries, measures in the event of mergers and restructuring, as well as termination provisions. The VAB has no general validity in the financial sector. 50 banks are subject to the VAB, including most of the large institutions such as UBS, Credit Suisse and Zürcher Kantonalbank. One focus is labor law. The association campaigned against the delivery of employee data to the USA. He is committed to the enforcement of fundamental rights (in particular equality) and health protection.
history
The beginnings go back to the First World War. In October 1917 the first staff association for the banking industry was founded in Zurich, followed by the central association in Bern in April 1918. The more radical Zurich Association did not initially join the moderate central association, but instead championed its interests with a strike by bank employees. In doing so, the people of Zurich won recognition from employers. After the general strike, however, the moderate forces prevailed. In 1920 the first "Uniform Service and Salary Regulations (ED + BO)" were agreed with the employers for all parts of the country. After the stock market crash in 1929, the association was unable to prevent multiple wage reductions, but after the Second World War it achieved a gradual increase in salaries and improved working conditions. In 1963, equal pay for men and women was (theoretically) introduced in the banking sector. In 1964 the five-day week followed.
The economic crisis at the beginning of the 1970s meant that the SBPV with its demands for a reduction in working hours to 44 hours and more vacation days did not get through, although the banks also lacked qualified workers at the time. In the 1980s, the SBPV won the 42-hour week and a fourth week of vacation for everyone. In 1990, the agreement on the employment conditions of bank employees (VAB) replaced ED + BO. The decade was marked by numerous closings of small banks, mergers and acquisitions. The reasons for this were the real estate crisis at the beginning of the decade, the incipient deregulation of the financial sector, the internationalization of activities and automation. There was an important innovation in 1996: Since then, wage negotiations have no longer taken place between the employer organization and the two professional associations SBPV and KV Schweiz, but at company level with the staff representatives, who are supported by the SBPV. The SBPV achieved success at the beginning of the 21st century with the introduction of a fifth week of vacation for everyone and full wages during maternity leave. During the financial crisis, which led to a huge restructuring of the financial center from 2008, the SBPV was challenged. He implemented numerous social plans and was thus able to alleviate the consequences of the mass layoffs somewhat. In 2013, the SBPV negotiated with the banks under the auspices of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters a protection agreement for bank employees regarding data delivery and the tax dispute with the USA.
membership
The SBPV is a member of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB) and the UNI Global Union .
Web links
- Website of the Swiss Bank Employees Association
- Agreement on the employment conditions of bank employees (VAB)
Individual evidence
- ^ SGB Dossier No. 96: On the membership development of the trade unions in 2012. SGB, accessed on November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ About us. SBPV, accessed November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Organization. SBPV, accessed November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Swiss Commercial Association. kvschweiz, accessed on November 19, 2015 .
- ^ AGV banks. agv banken, accessed on November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Commission for Salary and Social Policy KSSP and Joint Commission. SBPV, accessed November 19, 2015 .
- ^ Mission statement SBPV. SBPV, accessed November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ VAB. SBPV, accessed November 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Delivery of employee data. (No longer available online.) SBPV, archived from the original on November 19, 2015 ; Retrieved November 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Health in the workplace. (No longer available online.) SBPV, archived from the original on November 19, 2015 ; Retrieved November 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chronicle SBPV 1918 - 1968. (No longer available online.) SBPV, archived from the original on November 19, 2015 ; Retrieved November 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
