I work for a UK company and live in Switzerland.
If we leave the EU I will:
- Lose the right to live here.
- Lose the right to work here.
- If I get around the first points I will become a third tier option in the job market here as Swiss and EU citizens get preferential treatment and priority on jobs by law.
- I will get taxed twice on my income.
- I will have to pay for Swiss health insurance on top of the UK national insurance.
- My income, investments, savings and pension are in GBP which has already tanked and will plummet once we actually leave.
- My small company will struggle to stay afloat as we rely on business from all over the EU, but we particularly rely on UK businesses doing well which will not be the case for a long time.
Basically I will be completely screwed. Thanks guys!
I'm also in CH... not quite how you put it, but there's a good chance it will be harder... like for Americans trying to come over here.
They can still get the work, just the company have to state why you were a better choice over an EU national.
I'm not in support of the leave, but mis-information and emotional over-inflation of the facts don't help either side... Much more rampant of the leave campaign than the remain, of course.
- Lose the right to live here.
You don't actually have one at the moment, there is no basic right allowing non-Swiss citizens to stay in CH, even EU nationals - it's just easier - as long as you have a job or a company sponsors you to be here
- Lose the right to work here.
Not true - but it could become a little more difficult
- If I get around the first points I will become a third tier option in the job market here as Swiss and EU citizens get preferential treatment and priority on jobs by law.
Yes and no - it depends on the specialism and it's already the case that there is a bias toward Swiss individuals, just like there has been a bias toward UK citizens for UK jobs since the inception of the EU - like many other countries, I would imagine
- I will get taxed twice on my income.
Very unlikely, the UK and Switzerland have double-taxation agreements with each other which is already independent of the EU and also with a number of countries outside the EU
- I will have to pay for Swiss health insurance on top of the UK national insurance.
Again, unlikely - for a similar reason as the last point. However, in such a scenario - surely you would pay the amount you are due and your company would pay the extra cost for double insurance incurred by posting you here? I know mine did, at my demand, before we learned that I could bring the UK healthcare with me... I actually have an 11k CHF rebate coming in the next couple of weeks thanks to my company's lack of research
- My income, investments, savings and pension are in GBP which has already tanked and will plummet once we actually leave.
No arguing there
- My small company will struggle to stay afloat as we rely on business from all over the EU, but we particularly rely on UK businesses doing well which will not be the case for a long time.
Possibly, but we shall see... with the crash of the GBP - it's possible business in a number of pan-European UK-based business might actually increase and a lot of them will be able to be paid in EUR/CHF anyway as it's easy to setup an account in those currencies and then with the week GBP - the companies could make higher headline figures when they convert the funds themselves. The company who sent me to Switzerland were UK-based but being paid in USD even.
I don't remember anyone voting for you to live there, correct me if I am wrong.
Uhhh... what?
Well the UK lead the creation of the EU, so actually - yes - the UK and many other countries DID, in fact, vote for us to be able to move more freely in this area.
So... because there are a large number of racist bigots who fell for much of the scare-mongering, others should suffer their foolishness?
I doubt many who voted leave even thought about the ramifications, believing the lies of politicians and media. If they did, it's a little saddening that they didn't care.
I voted for what I thought was best for everyone in the UK based upon my ability to pick apart the fact from fiction which I spent many years learning. The evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of remain.
but most people voted for him not to be able to live and work there now after we get out of the eu
Quite right... this vote is something which has the basis to take away the basic rights of many - the right to freedom of movement.