It’s a deadline that keeps being pushed back – and it has been again.
France and Switzerland have agreed to relax the rules governing home working for border workers.
Under the rules in place before the pandemic, there was a limit on how much work a Swiss based worker could do from their French home without having to pay French social security payments.
Lockdowns and home working recommendations persuaded the two governments to turn a blind eye. The exemption started in June 2020 and then there’s been several dates posted when it should end.
The last deadline was the end of this year.
But it’s changed again, now cross-border home working will be allowed until the end of March next year, according to the French Embassy in Bern.
But there already seems to be a tacit understanding that even that date will change again – until June. The second anniversary of the exemption.
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