Eric Budry, journalist in the Geneva section.
TDG
You can sleep easy, the border is well guarded. The UDC and the MCG are watching, their eyes fixed on the horizon from which the enemy could emerge: the illegal worker. For these parties, there is no question of granting compensation for loss of income to this person! “It would legalize moonlighting and illegal stay of foreigners,” chokes the SVP. This is the central argument of the referendum launched by the two parties against the compensation plan for precarious workers adopted by the Grand Council.
Also read: “Compensation for precarious workers stumbles on referendum»
For the SVP and the CWM, it is a matter of principle. It is their right. But what results in the application of this principle in this particular case? To get an idea, just go to the Bastions to the exhibition of photographs of food parcel distributions in Les Vernets. This is what led to the refusal to help for a few months people, legal or illegal, suddenly deprived of financial resources.
Undeclared work is undoubtedly a plague, but one does not fight it by thrusting the head under water of that or that which often has no other choice than to pass by there. It fights by giving the means to the State to control the labor market. In this area, it does not seem that the SVP and the CWM are particularly active, preferring to repeat that it is enough to close the borders. It can work, if you accept to be North Korea.
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