1. FINDING A JOB
- Seasonal jobs/permanent positions
- Job applications
- Working illegaly
- Salaries
- Contract jobs
- Self-employment
- Trainees
- Au Pairs
- Languages
2. WORKING CONDITIONS
- Terms of employment
- Employment contract
- Employment conditions
- Sunday working
3. PERMITS & VISAS
- Permit classes
- Permit application
- Permit cancellation
- Leave of absence
- Important notes
- Changing jobs
- Visas
4. ARRIVAL
- Border control
- Frontier health control
- Customs
- Motorway tax
- Resident's control
- Embassy registration
- Checklists
5. ACCOMODATION
- Buying property
- Rented accomodation
- Finding an apartment
- Location
- Rental costs & extra costs
- Signing the contract
- Moving house
- House rules
- Inventory
- Contract termination
- Keys
- Electricity, Gas & Water
- Central heating
- Garbage disposal
- Home help
6. POST OFFICE SERVICES
- Business hours
- Letter post/parcel post
- Mail collection
- Change of address
- Postcheque account
- Paying bills
- Telegrams, telex & telefax
- Unsolicited mail
7. TELEPHONE
- Telephone installation & registration
- Using the telephone
- Charges
- International calls
- Nuisance calls
- Directories
- Automatic alarm call
- Call switching service
- Public telephones
- Moving house or leaving Switserland
8. TELEVISION AND RADIO
- Television
- Radio
9. EDUCATION
- State and private schools
- Children's holyday camps
- Apprenticeships
- Universities
- Further education
- Language schools
10. PUBLIC TRANSPORT
- Trains, buses & trams
- Ships
- Cable cars & mountain railways
- Timetables
- Taxis
- Airline services
- Holiday & visitor's tickets
11. MOTORING
- Car importation
- Buying and selling a car
- Control Test
- Exhaust test
- Car registration
- Driving licence
- Car insurance & road tax
- General road rules
- Swiss driving habits
- Winter driving
- Mountain passes
- Motorcycles
- Car papers
- Accidents
- Car theft
- Speed limits
- Car rental
- Motoring organisations
- Pedestrian road rules
- Railway car trains
- Motoring abroad
- Learning to drive
12. HEALTH
- Accidents
- Doctors
- Drugs & medicines
- Hospitals & clinics
- Dentists
- Optician
- Counselling & social services
- Births & Deaths
- Sexually-transmitted diseases
- Home nursing service
13. INSURANCE
- Insurance companies
- Insurance contracts
- Social security system
- Obligatory insurance
- Old age & survivor's insurance
- Company pension fund
- Accident insurance
- Salary insurance
- Unemployment insurance
- Health insurance
- House contents insurance
- Private liability insurance
- Optional insurance
14. FINANCE
- Swiss currency
- Foreign currency
- Banks
- Eurocheques
- Loans & overdrafts
- Credit cards
- Value added tax
- Income tax
- Church tax
- Federal Whithholding tax
- Wills
- Cost of living
18. ODDS AND ENDS
- Alarms
- Business hours
- Children
- Citizenship
- Climate
- Crime
- Economy & trade
- Geography
- Government
- Legal Advice
- Military service
- Pets
- Police
- Population
- Referendums
- Religion
- Smoking in public places
- Social customs
- Time difference
- Tipping
- Toilets
19. THE SWISS
20. LEAVING SWITSERLAND
- Moving house
- Leaving Switserland
APPENDICES
USEFUL ADDRESSES
Useful addresses
- Appendix B: Further reading
- Appendix C: Clubs & organisati ons
- Appendix D: Weights & measures
- Appendix E: Subscribtions
- Appendix F: Foreign words
- Appendix G: Map of Switserland
INDEX
SUGGESTIONS
ORDER FORMS
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