[denverllc]

The law doesn’t say that at all. It only applies to instances in which payment is made, and says you can’t accept credit card and not cash:

> Everyone is obliged to accept up to 100 Swiss regular issue coins in payment. Regular issue coins, commemorative coins and bullion coins are accepted at nominal value without restriction by the Swiss National Bank and the public cash offices of the Confederation.

Nowhere does this imply that you can trade working for paying an equivalent cash amount of your labour.

[randomdata]

> which payment is made

Yes, that's right, labour offered in a trade is a form of payment. All trades sees both sides of the transaction make a payment. In the most common case as it pertains to employment, I pay you labour, you pay me money, at which point the trade is settled.

But since the law states that money must always been accepted as a form of payment I can also pay you money in place of my labour. Per the law, the employer has to accept it. Thus, any time you don't want to go to work you simply have to offer money instead of labour, which you will get back since the employer is still obligated to fulfil their side of the trade.

It's an interesting approach. But doesn't seem tenable in the real world, so it is not surprising that it is oft ignored.

> and says you can’t accept credit card and not cash

Exactly. Credit cards don't offer money, but instead offer tokens that you can later trade for money. Practicalities aside, no different than accepting chickens and then trading those chickens for money. Or no different than accepting labour and then trading that labour for money. It's all the same. A trade is a trade is trade.

The law here requires that the cash must be accepted as a substitute in a trade.

[margalabargala]

You're mixing creative usages of language with legal terminology.

Colloquially, in English, one could think of "labor" as a form of "payment" in the way you describe.

In the legal context, things like "labor" and "payment" and "trade" have specific meanings. These meanings cannot be interchanged with any other "technically not grammatically incorrect" definition of the same word as it might be used in spoken English.

Misunderstandings like this are also leveraged by, for example, the Sovereign Citizen movement, with similar levels of validity.

[xcv123]

No, that is considered unpaid leave and it is a common practice where the cash amount is deducted from your salary. The terms of unpaid leave are determined by employment law and your employment contract.