Employment references, terminations, protected periods, collective employment agreements (GAVs) or internal HR policies: How far can AI really go when it comes to Swiss employment law—and how reliable are the answers?
These are questions we regularly hear from HR professionals. The short answer is: Yes—this is exactly the type of legal work Jurilo was built for.
Importantly, Jurilo is not limited to employment law. Jurilo covers Swiss law across a broad range of legal areas and can therefore support companies with many of the legal and compliance questions that arise in their day-to-day business. Employment law is one particularly important area—and one where HR teams can benefit immediately.
Employment references, terminations and protected periods? Absolutely.
Jurilo can analyze typical—and more complex—questions from the daily work of an HR team within seconds. For example:
Is this wording in an employment reference legally appropriate?
What must a complete and fair employment reference contain?
Is a termination valid in this particular situation?
When does a protected period (Sperrfrist) apply in cases of illness, accident or pregnancy?
What happens if an employee becomes ill during the notice period?
By how many days does this extend or shift the employment relationship?
Which legal provisions and deadlines apply to the specific case?
Jurilo is not limited to simple standard questions. It can also analyze complex cases involving several legal factors and provide a structured, source-based answer.
What about collective employment agreements (GAVs)?
Yes. Jurilo can also work with collective employment agreements (Gesamtarbeitsverträge/GAVs).
If a specific GAV or company-specific rule is particularly relevant, simply upload the document to Jurilo.
This can include GAVs, employee handbooks, HR regulations, expense policies, internal policies or other employment-related company documents.
Jurilo can analyze these documents in combination with applicable Swiss law.
You can therefore ask questions such as:
“Is this provision in our employee handbook compliant with Swiss employment law?”
Jurilo can compare the internal rule with the relevant legal framework and identify potential issues or inconsistencies.
Beyond employment law: broader legal and compliance questions
The same principle applies beyond HR.
Jurilo is designed for Swiss legal questions across multiple areas of law. This means users can also turn to Jurilo for many of the legal and compliance questions that arise elsewhere in an organization—not only questions relating to employees.
Where a question depends on company-specific documents, contracts, policies or regulations, these can be provided to Jurilo as additional context. Jurilo can then assess the question based on both the relevant Swiss legal sources and the documents provided.
In other words, Jurilo combines Swiss legal knowledge with your organization's own legal and regulatory context.
How accurate are the answers?
This is the most important question.
Jurilo was not developed as a general-purpose chatbot. It was specifically designed for Swiss legal research and analysis.
Its quality has been extensively tested together with Streiff von Kaenel, one of Switzerland’s leading employment law firms.
Unlike a general AI chatbot, Jurilo also provides sources and transparent legal reasoning. Users therefore don't simply receive an answer—they can examine the legal basis behind it.
Our benchmark is ambitious: within the areas of law covered by Jurilo, the quality should be at least comparable to good professional legal research and assessment—just dramatically faster.
For particularly sensitive, strategic or contentious matters, a qualified lawyer may still need to make the final assessment. But for a very large share of everyday legal questions—from HR and employment law to broader compliance matters—Jurilo can provide a fast, well-founded first legal analysis.
Don't take our word for it. Test it.
Take a real question from your organization.
A difficult termination. A protected period. An employment reference. A GAV question. A compliance issue. Or upload your own employee handbook, policy or other relevant document.
Even better:
Ask Jurilo questions where you already know the correct answer.
Then judge the quality for yourself.