Question juridique clé
Whether the employer's payments to the pension fund for early retirement are reglementary contributions excluded from insured salary under Art. 8 lit. a AHVV.
Solution extraite
Yes. The payments are mandatory under the pension fund regulations in a defined situation and therefore qualify as reglementary employer contributions.
Motifs extraits
The regulations themselves provided for the employer's payment if the conditions for early retirement were met. Unlike purely case-by-case, non-reglementary payments, the obligation arose from the pension rules, not from an ad hoc social plan or a discretionary employer promise. The fact that the employer had to agree to the early retirement did not remove the reglementary character, because such agreement necessarily belongs to the employment relationship and cannot be fully regulated in the pension rules.