Our Mission
She cleans your flat on Tuesdays.
Three hours. She knows where the key is, what the dog is called and which windows stick. What she doesn't have: a contract, a payslip, AHV years.
And she is not an exception.
250'000households in Switzerland employ someone without registering them.
Clino estimate. Method and sources: clino.ch/quellen
Look at any building on your street.
Behind some of these windows, someone is working right now. Without registration, without pension years, without a contract.
Why it happens
For three hours a week, the system asks the same of you as of a company.
So almost nobody does it. Not out of malice. Because it is too complicated.
Registration with the compensation office
Written employment contract
Accident insurance
Payslip
Wage statement
What's at stake
Accident insurance.
Pension years.
A contract.
Like everyone else.
Every year without a payslip is a gap in her AHV record. Each gap cuts her pension by about 2.3 %, for the rest of her life.
In the press
When the press tells the story, the problem stops being invisible.
We count what nobody had counted, and publish it. Since June, Swiss newsrooms have built articles on our numbers. Each one tells readers across the country what this page tells you: the person who cleans their home is often not registered. That is the mission working.
- articles
- 11articles
- newsrooms
- 9newsrooms
- languages
- 3languages
25.07.2026Front page · Zahl des Tages
250'000
«Schwarzarbeit: Haushaltshilfen fehlt oft jede Absicherung»
The 250'000 at the top of this page made Blick's front page.
26.08.2026«Zehntausende in der Schweiz lassen Putzfrauen oder Nannys schwarzarbeiten»0.048 %the yearly chance a household is inspected. Our figure, in the summary box.
26.08.2026«Schwarz angestellte Putzhilfen kosten uns Millionen»CHF 55–83 Mwhat undeclared household help costs the social system each year. Our maths, reworked by the editors.
26.08.2026«Pourquoi la Suisse ferme les yeux sur le travail au noir chez les particuliers»500'000employer households in Switzerland. Our study, in the French edition.
26.08.2026«Schwarzarbeit bei Reinigung und Kinderbetreuung in der Schweiz steigt»2 quotesfrom our founder, on undeclared work rising in cleaning and childcare.
11.06.2026«Collaboratrice domestica «legale». Quanto costa davvero?»No. 1our first article: what a legal domestic worker really costs, by canton.
What we do
Clino turns those five duties into a few clicks.
You enter name, wage, hours and canton. Clino prepares the rest and shows you exactly where to click.
- 1The employment contract, written for your case.
- 2The AHV registration, pre-filled, every step explained.
- 3A payslip every month, for you and for her.
You stay the employer: we prepare, you send. We never touch your money.
Together
This is what it adds up to. So far:
59
families employ someone properly with Clino
64
household workers with a contract and payslips
12
cantons, and counting
CHF 1'741
flow into AHV, ALV, family allowances and BVG for every family, every year.
Average across the payslips on Clino, as of September 2026. Contribution rates per BSV.
Next stop: 1'000 families. Then 250'000.
Three ways to be part of it
You employ someone at home
Register her properly.
30 days free, then CHF 19.90 a month. Nothing is charged before day 30.
You work in a Swiss home
Know your rights.
Wage, holidays, insurance and pension, explained in your language.
Your rightsYour organisation helps families or household workers? Work with us
She cleans your flat on Tuesdays. Now she has a contract, a payslip every month and, one day, a pension.
Salvador, founder of Clino · Who we are
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