Key legal question
Whether the bylaw amendment increasing employer financing obligations required employer consent under Art. 66 BVG
Extracted holding
The prior contractual acceptance of future bylaw changes could satisfy the consent requirement for an increase in employer contributions, provided employers retained a real possibility to terminate the affiliation in time.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 66 BVG protects employers against unilateral increases in their contribution burden. In the public-law pension fund setting, advance acceptance of future bylaw changes is not barred per se because the employer can avoid the new regime by timely withdrawal under the affiliation contract.