I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a RAV compensation payments question.
I am a PhD student and have recently been given a 50% contract by my supervisor (both time and salary) as I finish my PhD. I was planning to go to the RAV as I understand that they offer compensation payments, giving you 70% of the difference in wages between the previous (full) salary and the 50% I am on now.
My question is: if they find a 100% job which I am suited for given my qualifications, do I have to accept it? Or can I insist that I only want another 50% job whilst I already have another 50% job, my PhD?
Obviously I want to get the PhD done ASAP, as I will be in a much stronger position to look for permanent jobs then. If I am forced to take a 100% job then finishing the PhD is going to be shunted back months. However, each month I leave it before going to the RAV I reduce future RAV compensation once the PhD is finished as my 12 month average earnings gets dragged down by the new 50% salary.
Also, as I am under 30 I am a little wary of the fact they can force me to take any job offered - even if it is does not take account of your skills/experience - and possibility to affect future job finding prospects (post PhD...).
Any help or advice if you have been in a similar position would be appreciated.
As you are not unemployed I doubt you’ll get anything. Why would they give you compensation payments? If that were the case everyone would be working only 50% and claiming the rest. Unless it’s different when you’re technically still a student.
PHD students get paid in CH, the percentages are actually based on money rather than hours which many RAV officers & workers at the Casse don't actually fully appreciate.
Yes, but the point is that the OP is not becoming unemployed, simply changing to a 50% position. So the RAV won't be able to do anything.
If someone were already unemployed and in receipt of RAV payment, and were then offered a low-paid part-time job, the RAV may indeed make up the difference between that and the nominal 70% of previous salary, which is I suspect what the OP was thinking of. And of course it's expected that the rest of the time you're available for work and are still actively looking for new jobs, etc. and fulfilling all the RAV's requirements, which I doubt a PhD student would be able to do anyway.
Will have to find the link again- but I remember that if your hours are cut, normally because it is an alternative to redundancy if the business is in trouble, then some compensation is possible, in some special cases- usually with union involvement- this had happened in the watch and precision engineering before.
Why would they? You’re not unemployed, just had your hours reduced. If you don’t like it find a new job or additional job to make up the money. Unfortunately for the OP, it sounds like it’s either live with the reduced hours or find an additional job and then the PhD gets delayed for a while.
Well, it is called 'Chomage technique' /reduction des horaires de travail:
RHT : conditions
La perte de travail est prise en considération
Lorsqu'elle est due à des facteurs d'ordre économique et lorsqu'elle est inévitable. Si elle est d'au moins 10%. Elle se calcule sur le total des heures à effectuer dans l'entreprise, après déduction de tous les congés payés et non payés. Cette condition est essentielle. Lorsque l'horaire normal est celui prévu par le contrat ou par l'usage local dans le secteur économique. Lorsqu'elle est de nature temporaire et que le maintien des emplois est garanti. In short: when is is due to economic factors and inevitable. If it is at least 10% reduction, taking holidays into account. When it is temporary and jobs are guaranteed. So very specific conditions- and probably not applicable in this case- as job is temporary contract by nature. No harm in asking though.
But if the whole point is to save the RAV money it makes no sense, because, who would accept a 50% pay cut if the alternative is to be unemployed on 70%?
Especially if it is likely that you will be made entirely unemployed in the future and then your RAV will be 35% of what you started with.
As far as I know (source, my PhD students in UZH) PhD students have a 50%-60% contract with the university and are employed on that basis, but are expected to work 100%. This means that theorectically they can get supplimental work of up to 50%, but this can effect their studies, that OP's supervisor has employed them an additional 50% would indicate that they do not think this is a problem. But the RAV will not pay out because the OP has two jobs totalling 100%.
Or, maybe, OP has finished the funded period of her PhD and their supervisor has found a 50% contract to help support them during the write up period. If that is the case the RAV will probably not do anything because the OP has job a job on the same monetry terms.
Anyway, annoys me because during my PhD I was fully funded at £8,000 a year and not allowed to take on extra work without permission except the £9 an hour demonstration jobs for a maximum of 100 hours a year. And the PhD never counted towards unemployment insurence either. PhD students here are so lucky
OP had a 100% job which has been cut to 50%. He/she is asking if RAV would make up some of the difference in salary and also if RAV finds another 100% job do they have to take it or could they insist on only taking a 50% job as they already have one that’s at 50% (the PhD). No mention of yet another 50% job on top of the full time PhD one (your number 2 suggestion).
Presumably you've been given a 50% contract at your own request.
Based on that, your situation is planned and completely intentional. There's such thing as an insurance that covers the consequences of intentional actions, unemployment insurance is no exception.
Additionally, you appear to not really be looking for an additional 50% so you're not "vermittelbar", which also have the RAV refuse to pay.
Presumably he has taken too long to finish and his boss is either running out of funds or trying to 'motivate' him to finish. The point is, if you are finishing your PhD, you are in fact working 100+% and are neither available to look for a new job nor take another job even if part-time. Thus you do not qualify for RAV payments.