<p><span lang="EN-US">Swiss trade union Travail Suisse has called on the government to loosen immigration laws and allow more workers into the country in order to fill future labour market gaps in sectors such as education, healthcare and engineering</span><span lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US">Trade union Unia has reacted with anger to what it views as immoral wage dumping after it emerged that a group of Slovakian workers were allegedly being paid €5 ($7) per hour for construction work at a post office in Bern.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" lang="EN-GB">Swiss Federal Railways has agree to put measures in place to protect employees working in an alley below the tracks from faeces and urine dumped by older model train carriages. </span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">
<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6248058916535228" style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Farnair, a small cargo airline based near Basel, has decided to reduce the salaries of its cross-border workers by 10 percent and pay them in euros, in a move slammed by unions and experts as "discriminatory" and "xenophobic". </span></div>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Construction workers at the main railway station in Zurich have issued an ultimatum to rail operator SBB, threatening to stop working if excrement continues to fall from </span><span lang="EN-GB">the ceiling of an alleyway they are building.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Women in Switzerland earn 41 percent less than men, according to the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB). Wage discrimination has even increased over the past few years, the group said on Friday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Train operator SBB had announced it would no longer allow ticket sales on board its long-distance trains after a journey had started, but after vocal criticism, it appears to have changed its mind.</span></p>
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