Hi. As I understand it, yesterday they extended the rule blocking Eastern European's from getting the 5 year B, to include the whole EU (including Britain). So it does not just affect Eastern Europeans (though this legislation is only for 1 year, I think it is a "valve" clause in the bilateral agreements with the EU).
I may be misguided on this as I don't read the news in German and rely on other Forums and English news sites, which often aren't as accurate as the original source.
I do agree that it won't do much as a Contractor could just use an "L" permit, I guess it may have a very slight impact on the Permie market as you wouldn't want to give someone a permie job who may just stay for 2 years.
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Token gesture, only affects Eastern Europeans, and it doesn´t stop them coming on L permits, which you can keep renewing more or less indefinitely on short term working contracts or even with a permanent job. It is questionable as to whether they would then apply this across the board.
The main problems in Switzerland are the banks because of a general crackdown on tax evaders and the Swiss Franc is very high making it generally very expensive to employ people and difficult to compete.Last edited by BlasterBates; 25 April 2013, 10:02.Leave a comment:
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New Swiss Permit System
Can't see this mentioned anywhere else so thought I'd ask if anyone has opinions on what effect the "one year pause" in allowing EU citizens to have 5 year B permits will have on contract/permie rates in Switzerland.
Safeguard clause: Swiss curb EU immigration - swissinfo.ch
I live in Switzerland and have a B permit. But personally can't see it making much difference to stagnant/declining rates (in CHF terms at least).
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