Clino: Swiss household employment
Free, read-only MCP server for employing a cleaner, nanny or carer in Switzerland, built by Clino.
What it can do
- Estimate Employer Cost: Monthly and annual cost of employing a cleaner, nanny, babysitter or carer in a Swiss private household, and the worker's net wage: gross wage, vacation supplement, every emplo
- Compare Cantons: The same hourly wage and weekly hours computed in all 26 Swiss cantons: monthly employer cost, net wage, family allowance fund rate, admin fee and the canton's minimum wage, ranked. U
- Get Minimum Wage: The legal gross hourly minimum wage for household work (cleaning, childcare, care) at a Swiss workplace: federal NAV tiers by qualification, cantonal minimum wages (GE, NE, JU, TI, B
What data it sees
Do you need an account
No: the server works without sign-in
Free, read-only MCP server for employing a cleaner, nanny or carer in Switzerland, built by Clino.
Ask for a hiring plan and get the steps with their dates (contract, registration with the canton's compensation office, accident insurance, payslips, annual declaration), a minimum-wage check at the workplace postcode, the monthly employer cost and net wage, and whether daily sickness allowance insurance is mandatory in that canton. Compare all 26 cantons, read one canton's rules, or look up the official document, verbatim quote and check date behind any figure.
Six languages (DE, FR, IT, EN, ES, PT). No account, no API key. General information, not legal advice.
Docs and live demo: https://clino.ch/en/mcp · Open data (CC BY 4.0): https://github.com/salvador-creator/clino-mcp
How to connect
How to connect Clino: Swiss household employment to Claude
The server address to paste into Claude settings:
https://clino--salvador.run.tools
- Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
- Go to Settings → Connectors.
- Click Add custom connector.
- Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
- In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.
Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.
Authorization
After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.
How to connect Clino: Swiss household employment to ChatGPT
The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:
https://clino--salvador.run.tools
- Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
- Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
- Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
- Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
- Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
- In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.
OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.
Authorization
On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.
How to connect Clino: Swiss household employment to Cursor
The server address to paste into Cursor settings:
https://clino--salvador.run.tools
Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.
Manually:
- In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
- Paste the JSON copied below into
~/.cursor/mcp.json(per project:.cursor/mcp.jsonin the repo root). - Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.
Authorization
If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.
Server tool list (9)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| estimate_employer_cost | Monthly and annual cost of employing a cleaner, nanny, babysitter or carer in a Swiss private household, and the worker's net wage: gross wage, vacation supplement, every employee deduction (AHV/IV/EO, unemployment, accident insurance, withholding tax, BVG) and every employer contribution (incl. the canton's family allowance fund and the compensation office's admin fee). Uses the same engine as Clino's public calculator. Picks the simplified or ordinary procedure from the annual wage. Canton = where the household lives. |
| compare_cantons | The same hourly wage and weekly hours computed in all 26 Swiss cantons: monthly employer cost, net wage, family allowance fund rate, admin fee and the canton's minimum wage, ranked. Use it for 'where is it cheapest', 'how much does the canton matter' or a table for several cantons. |
| get_minimum_wage | The legal gross hourly minimum wage for household work (cleaning, childcare, care) at a Swiss workplace: federal NAV tiers by qualification, cantonal minimum wages (GE, NE, JU, TI, BS), city minimum wages (Stadt Luzern in force; Zürich and Winterthur voted, not yet in force) and the rule below 5 hours a week. Give the workplace postcode for the exact answer, or a canton. |
| get_canton_rules | Everything canton-specific for a private household employer: the compensation office (name, contact, portal), how and by when to register, contribution rates with their official sources, family allowances, minimum wage, sick pay in the first year, whether daily sickness allowance insurance (KTG) is mandatory, withholding tax, childcare tax deduction and the penalty for not registering. |
| get_employer_guide | Clino's one-page fact sheet for private households, as Markdown, in six languages: when the duties apply (from the first franc), which contributions are due and who pays them, the simplified procedure and its ceiling, minimum wage and working conditions, what happens without registration, and the six steps. Optionally adds one canton's registration route. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. |
| get_official_sources | The federal and cantonal figures Clino uses, each with the official document, its URL, the verbatim sentence that states the value and the date it was checked: contribution rates, thresholds, minimum wages, BVG, board and lodging, sick-pay scales, Geneva au pair contract, IV assistance contribution. Use it to cite or verify a number. |
| get_hiring_checklist | Everything a Swiss household has to do to employ a cleaner, nanny or carer legally, for its own case, in one call: the six steps of Clino's fact sheet in the user's language with real due dates when a start date is given (contract, registration with the compensation office within 30 days, accident insurance from day one, monthly payslip, annual declaration by 30 January, pension fund above the BVG threshold), the canton's sickness-insurance duty with its carve-outs, a minimum-wage check at the workplace, the monthly employer cost and net wage, and prefilled links to a contract template and the calculator. Use it first for 'I want to hire...' questions. |
| search | Search Clino's documents on employing household help in Switzerland: one document per canton (compensation office, registration, contribution rates, minimum wage, family allowances, sick pay, sickness insurance), the employer fact sheet in six languages and every official figure with its source. Returns ids for fetch. Queries in any language; name the canton for canton rules. |
| fetch | The full text of one document returned by search (canton/ZH, guide/de, source/nav-ungelernt...), with its clino.ch or official URL to cite. |