[uraza]

From the original article:

  In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls
  on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a
  binding vote on compensation.

  A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than 
  what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called
  1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.

The two articles you linked to refer to the first proposal.