Sunday, 11 March, 2012
Swiss turn down an extra two weeks of holiday
Swiss voters made it official Sunday: They said no to six weeks of paid leave a year for everyone working in Switzerland. The initiative needed a majority of both voters and cantons and it got neither. None of the cantons approved it, and 67 percent of people voted against. WRS’s Lucas Chambers went out into the streets of Lausanne yesterday to ask those against why they’d said, “no”:
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The question is when people goes on six weeks paid holiday who will do their jobs? This is the issue, there are not enough Swiss people to cover Swiss socalled jobs. The Swiss do not employ immigrants unless it is to clean the toilets etc. They are not prepared to properly accept immigrants in to the labour market as this may help immigrants to integrate and next ’they will bring their whole family’ into ’precious’ Switzerland and deprive the Swiss. This is the view of the Swiss people and the reason the six weeks holidays were rejected. Do you know that even after living lawfully in Switzerland for nine years an immigrant cannot join the police or work for the State and local government in any meaningful capacity. Yes immigrants will be tolorated to clean the toilets but nothing more. In Switzerland, it is not about getting the best persons for the job, it is about getting a White Swiss employed and all the international companies that conducts business here complies with the Swiss ways even it is in breach of both domestice and international Laws.
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