the station Interlaken-Ost, a leaden November sky is above the Bernese Oberland. Tourists wait, the posters show the Jungfraujoch. Joaquín García to sit in the Coop Restaurant. He picked the table by the escalator. He has seven years of tiredness are written in the face.

the temperature is falling When in Switzerland, the rise in the unemployment figures. Also in the Canton of Berne, more people registered in December, at the Regional employment centres (RAV)…. In December, 313 people were in the Canton of 11’to be unemployed, 983, more than in the previous month. This has a lot to do with the construction activity in the country. Because the Winter is coming practically to a Standstill. Are affected people like Joaquín García. The “Temporary”.

temporary office

Joaquín García gives 33, has short hair, cracked lips, and does not mean actually, García. His real name, he does not want to read in the newspaper. He Worries that to do him nowhere. The anonymity is the price for the Meeting. García is a plasterer and since 30. November unemployed. The last operation, for which he worked, a small company in Zeeland, had no more use for him.

Garcia is conveyed from spring to autumn, to those who have need of a temporary office. He is one of a growing stratum of society: the workers without a permanent position. 2017 made in Switzerland 364’941-human Agency. Every fourth application was made on the construction, 70 percent of migrants.

“No work, no prospects, it’s ridiculous!”Joaquín García

Garcia works, where always be a mediator to bring him something: in Bern, Ostermundigen, Zurich, La Chaux-de-Fonds. In the summer he sometimes drive two hours just to get to the construction site. And in the evening two hours back to the village, minutes from Interlaken is a few minutes away. He tells of a Studio apartment, a TV, the most Necessary and 600 francs rent. He’s better off in Switzerland than in Spain, says García. At least financially. On average, he earns 4000 Swiss francs a month, net.

lack of skilled workers in the construction

The number of unemployed is continuously decreasing. In the Canton of Bern in 2018, an average of 10’764 people without a Job across the country, there were 118’103. Both Figures are significantly below those of the previous year. The increase in December is a ground wave, in periods of General economic boom. “The increase is largely due to the this time of year, the usual development in the construction industry,” writes the Bern economic Affairs. In other words: The Pay rise for a short time, because for people like Joaquín García, no work left to do.

Garcia is the classical guest workers, the country still needs – on the construction skill shortages exist. He has never worked longer than a year for the same operation. The effect on his residence status: García didn’t make it up today on the Status of the short stay. His purple-colored L-card, he has to leave periodically to renew, and for the past seven years. So long lives, works and he is stamping now here.

The uncertain residence status and the unsteady work situation are red cloths for many landlords.

the man Grew up in a small town in Andalusia. In a country where one in three young people is unemployed. In a home, about which he says: “No work, no prospects, it’s ridiculous!” Some of his friends to work in Abu Dhabi, Guinea, Mexico and Germany. It moved seven years ago to Switzerland. Because the sister in Zurich, clean offices, and the brother-in-law concreted there roads. Because of the brother, the residential blocks of building, in the Bernese Oberland lives.

Garcia decided to the village at Interlaken. Although it’s not exactly cheap for him, the plastered and on construction sites in the Jura walls. He would like to move. “But it is difficult to get an apartment with a short stay permit.” The uncertain residence status and the unsteady work situation are red cloths for many landlords.

It feels like a lot of Temporary construction: as a worker of the second class.

His current apartment o. k., García says. Not o. k. was the case with the pension Fund contributions. In the case of interventions in the last year to be a lender paid the contributions late or not at all. Whether aware of it or not? It’s hard to say. In September 2016, García was engaged in Vevey, because the wage remained the same. He had just signed his, to date, only a fixed work contract. Then the operation went bankrupt. The money he has never seen. He should have done his boss.

The loss of income was hard, for García but typical. He feels like many of the Temporary construction: as a worker of the second class. The little things: If he must get the helmet, vest, Trousers and steel cap shoes himself, although his employer would have to provide the work gear. García knew nothing of this obligation. He only found out at lunch on the construction site. As it is explained to him by a work colleague. He had bought the gap long ago.

3300 Swiss francs from the state

When Garcia comes home in the evening, takes a shower and then calls his girlfriend. She remained in Andalusia and Secretary with a Pneumatics. “Logically, that does not give up,” he says. He wants to get married, start a family. “But I can’t offer her nothing, knows when I work and when not to.” In the Morning he was at the employment office. He put his consultant applications, showed that he is committed to a permanent position. She said that he should look around in other sectors of industry, in the gastronomy, for example. He replied that he understood from the waiters and cooking really is not your business. It all boils down, as it has been running for seven years. Until the construction work, he will receive from the state on a monthly basis 3300 Swiss francs. “I don’t want this money at all,” he says. He wants a permanent position.

The constant uncertainty, it robs him of sleep. “I have next week of work? I have all the papers for the RAV? There is a residence permit?” These problems he would have as “Solid” he believes. Because the Strength of the “relaciones”. Relations that he could not build in the first place. “I’m all right.” Counted together, Joaquín García looks at his girlfriend for a month in the year. If he ever has a “real job”, it brings you to Switzerland.

Until then, you are on the phone, always in the evening.

(Berner Zeitung)

Created: 30.01.2019, 14:49 PM