SWITZERLAND - Swiss trade unions have blasted the Swiss Federal Council's decision to lower the minimum interest rate guarantee by one percentage point to 2.25% as being party to arbitrary politics.
Travail Suisse, the Swiss trade unions confederation, claimed that the government was “bowing down to life insurers.” It views the move as severely threatening the second pillar of the Swiss pensio...
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