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While qualifications and upskilling play an important role for seniors in maintaining and returning to employment, the systems and attitudes of employers can also serve to limit the risks of occupational precarity in late careers. With its liberal job market, Switzerland is distinguished by a near total lack of policies and practices favourable to the (re) integration of workers aged over 50, making unemployed seniors highly vulnerable. With very few exceptions, the efforts made by this population to return to employment are thwarted by a highly demanding labour market. As a result, men and women at the latter stages of their careers are finding it increasingly difficult to return to employment. Compared with Europe, the risk of unemployment for senior workers is lower in Switzerland, but those who are unemployed have a considerably lower chance of finding a job. A negative spiral tends to develop, reflected in a decline in the material well-being of unemployed seniors in retirement. The risk of late-career precarity is clearly higher for women, as employment and most pension insurance schemes are designed with a full-time salaried male worker in mind.