Founding associations

The OASI COMPENSATION FUND OFFICE EXFOUR offers its services to the affiliated enterprises of a total of 7 branch associations

• Schweizerischer Verband der Direktverkaufsfirmen (SVDF) 1947¹
• Schweizerischer Pelzfachverband (SwissFur) 1947¹
• Swiss Federation of Private Schools (SFPS) 1966
• KUNSTSTOFF.swiss 1966
• Ziegelindustrie Schweiz 1996²
• Interessengemeinschaft Keramik Schweiz (IGK) 1996²
• Vereinigung Schweizerischer Glasfabriken (GLAS) 1996²

¹ Establishment of the compensation fund office
² Merger with the compensation fund office Keramik und Glas 

The branch associations are represented by several delegates in all bodies of the compensation fund offices and thus exercise their rights of co-determination.

Office

The OASI COMPENSATION FUND OFFICE EXFOUR has its registered office and its premises in Basel. It is active throughout Switzerland and assists its clients in German, in French, in Italian and, more and more, in English. To simplify the transaction of administrative tasks the compensation fund office provides its own internet platform (connect). 

With a team of 30 employees the EXFOUR compensation fund offices want to support and relieve the employers, self-employed and insured affiliated to them and provide advice for the execution of numerous duties in a reliable and competent manner. 

The three housetops symbolize the three compensation fund offices: “Everything under the same roof” and are an emblem of the cross-functional range of services of the compensation fund offices EXFOUR.

Brief description

The privately operated OASI COMPENSATION FUND OFFICE EXFOUR is a service provider of the 1st pillar. About 850 employers and independents with roughly 44’900 employees are affiliated to it. The OASI compensation fund office is an institution of public law as defined by the OASI legislation. The compensation fund office is also responsible for the management of the FAMILY COMPENSATION FUND OFFICE of the same name.

Services

Its main tasks include the competent and customer oriented execution of the Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance (OASI), Invalidity Insurance (AI) and the Income Compensation Allowance in the Event of Service or of Maternity (APG) as well as the levy of contributions for the Unemployment Insurance (AC). The compensation fund office also participates in the execution of the maternity insurance of the canton Geneva as well as in the cantonal fund for professional training of the canton Ticino. 

The services are financed through advantageous contribution rates independent of the sum of salaries and graded on a highly diminishing scale.

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