In the company, the trial period to the test

It is a marriage where everyone must decide on the future of the couple after a maximum of three months of living together: the employment contract between employer and employee. Sometimes, when the union continues, it happens silently, almost automatically. Other times, formalizing the relationship is more ceremonial. But does this three-month period still make sense?

If it may seem necessary to decide before this fateful date, it is to benefit from the rules provided for in article 335b of the Code of Obligations (CO) since 1989: during the first three months at most, each of the parties may terminate without reason the contract with a notice period of seven days net. In the civil service, federal, cantonal and communal laws provide…

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