Editing Haute-Savoie (section)

==={{anchor|Cross-border labour}}Cross-border workers===
Many people who live in Haute-Savoie (more than 52,200 in November 2006) work in [[Switzerland]] (in the cantons of [[Geneva]], [[Vaud]] and [[Valais]]).{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} The phenomenon has accelerated since bilateral agreements concluded between Switzerland and the [[European Union]],{{when|date=April 2021}} of which a significant part concerned free movement of people. In 2007, commuting increased over 12%.<!--from when?-->

Effective June 1, 2007, residents of Haute-Savoie may freely work in Switzerland. The department and municipalities receive compensation ("frontier funds") allocated to municipalities in proportion to the number of border residents there. Following an agreement signed in Geneva in 1973, the Canton of Geneva transferred to Haute-Savoie 3.5 percent of total worker compensation, equivalent in December 2006 to €77.687&nbsp;million.