Key legal question
Whether reducing the cantonal minimum wage for a domestic worker employed by an international official, based on the DFAE directive and tax privilege, was arbitrary and unequal treatment.
Extracted holding
The reduction was not supportable: the directive was merely informative, the tax privilege was fictitious in the worker's concrete situation, and the one-third reduction lacked a legitimate reason.
Extracted reasoning
The cantonal minimum wage under the Geneva contract-type applied in principle. The DFAE directive did not create a binding wage rule. The supposed tax advantage did not concretely benefit the worker because her income and family situation meant she would likely not have been taxed at the minimum wage level anyway; the reduction was therefore disproportionate and discriminatory.