Working in Spain
One of the reasons it is so difficult to get a visa for Spain is that the contracts offered in Spain give a lot more to the worker than most other places in the world. It is difficult to be an employer in Spain. This means that, with cost cutting in mind, a black-market of unofficial visaless employment has flourished. If one is caught, it usually means deportation.
Spain is a country in which the labour unions hold a lot of power. This makes it very difficult to fire people, and most contracts favour employees. There may or may not be a provision for siesta in ones contract, which defines the time of the long lunch breaks. There are also an innumerable number of little bonuses that are paid to workers for the year’s public holidays.
Severance pay in Spain is extremely high. A culture of ‘walking invisibles’ has infected many of Spain’s corporate environments. These are people who are hoping to be fired for the payout, and subsequently do no work in their offices. With 6 weeks pay due at the end of a contract for every year worked, at the end of a few years work it becomes too expensive to dismiss any but the poorest of workers.
Like everything in Spain there is a lot of paper work to fill out for most jobs. If you work a trade, ones certificates have to be translated and sent to the Ministry of Education. If you are a chef or a bartender, one has to take an exam showing that one knows how to handle food.
It can be incredibly difficult to get a working visa in Spain meaning that a short visit may just not be worth the hassle. Chances are if you are living in Spain, you wanted to be there badly enough to put up with the hassles. However, if you are a member of the European Union or another Schengen country, then you don’t need a visa for Spain. For those who are not it can be one of those difficult catch-22 situations that foreign countries delight in forcing on potential migrants. Getting a visa and work permit is easy, if and when a job is lined up. Getting a job however, is difficult without already having a visa or work permit. Due to the high levels of unemployment, getting a visa can be tricky as Spain does not wish to have their labour market flooded by foreign nationals.
As absurd as it may sound, the best way to get into Spain is to go there on holiday, find a job, and then return home to process the visa application. The best document to have is a signed contract of more than 10 months with a potential employer. For the full list of require documents it is worth contacting the local Spanish Consulate.
Visa and Work Permits
It can be incredibly difficult to get a working visa in Spain meaning that a short visit may just not be worth the hassle. Chances are if you are living in Spain, you wanted to be there badly enough to put up with the hassles. However, if you are a member of the European Union or another Schengen country, then you don’t need a visa for Spain. For those who are not it can be one of those difficult catch-22 situations that foreign countries delight in forcing on potential migrants. Getting a visa and work permit is easy, if and when a job is lined up. Getting a job however, is difficult without already having a visa or work permit. Due to the high levels of unemployment, getting a visa can be tricky as Spain does not wish to have their labour market flooded by foreign nationals.As absurd as it may sound, the best way to get into Spain is to go there on holiday, find a job, and then return home to process the visa application. The best document to have is a signed contract of more than 10 months with a potential employer. For the full list of require documents it is worth contacting the local Spanish Consulate.
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