• The draft legislation unveiled late last week would “severely reduce” the attractiveness of hiring people from abroad, the parliamentary committee said, by favouring people – including EU citizens – already living in Switzerland.

    So their idea is to draft a bill to encourage swiss employers to employ swiss people. I wonder what form this would take? Surely many businesses are going to ignore it and take the cheaper/more available labour anyway. It would have to be a very real and pursuasive incentive.

  • So their idea is to draft a bill to encourage swiss employers to employ swiss people. I wonder what form this would take? Surely many businesses are going to ignore it and take the cheaper/more available labour anyway. It would have to be a very real and pursuasive incentive.

    All of this isolationist stuff is simply bonkers. People have always moved around a lot, but war, international injustice, and conflict that have caused the recent surge in refugees need to be tackled at their roots (ending wars, ending economic imbalances mostly caused by colonialism, ending environmental destruction on a grand scale, etc.), to turn all those refugees into tourists who occasionally travel abroad from well-functioning home countries in whose culture they feel a sense of belonging and pride. Those who really want to go and live somewhere else should generally be allowed to. I think if the world wasn't in such upheaval their number wouldn't be very significant at all, e.g. the current drive to get people with very specific skills from all over the shop would be unnecessary if education was more even worldwide. You get all the talents everywhere.

    Of course, I know that's nothing but pious hopes, especially at the moment, but I find it tiresome to think about all of these absurdities like that Swiss policy one by one.

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