This would be very hard to achieve in Switzerland. For one, Swiss law places a big emphasis on acting in good faith. If an employer were to hire permanent emplo

This would be very hard to achieve in Switzerland. For one, Swiss law places a big emphasis on acting in good faith. If an employer were to hire permanent employees as "contractors", courts would be likely to reject that argument. Secondly, social security is structured a bit differently from the U.S. version: Contributions are taken out of employee's salaries (and matched by the employer). Contractors would be required to act as commercial entities and contribute themselves. This would require a fair bit of paperwork -- not something you'd expect a low-wage employee to complete. And if they'd fail to complete and submit the paperwork, social security would take action against said contractors or -- more likely, imo -- against the original employer. Thirdly, self-employed persons face some extra paperwork for their tax declarations. A big shift from employees to self-employed people would be noticable (and, going back to point 1, likely to be rejected by the courts). By the way: the proposal included language specifically prohibiting outsourcing the leadership of a company to another company.