Once seen as a rite of passage, seasonal jobs in the rest of Europe are off limits for many – but some still make it work
One 18-year-old Briton said he had to abandoned his plan to work in the French Alps over the winter because he needed to have a work permit.One 18-year-old Briton said he had to abandoned his plan to work in the French Alps over the winter because he needed to have a work permit.
The 18-year-old has abandoned his plans to work in the Alps over winter and is thinking of new ways to spend his gap year. “In short, it doesn’t feel fair,” he said. Louis, from Brighton, worked three months over summer in Greece, taking photos for a resort company. He worked as a freelancer without a work permit for a company during the 90-day stay limit for non-EU tourists.
In 2011, almost 400,000 British citizens aged 15-49 were living in the Europe’s Schengen area for 12 months or longer,Getting a work permit can be expensive and time-consuming, making a coming-of-age period of seasonal work hard for Britons to access.When Lia Middleton, 19, was growing up, she spent time with her parents in France – attending an international school near Paris. That gave her a European as well as British identity, she said.
Kevin Carreira grew up in London but has a French passport. He has been working ski seasons in the French Alps since winter 2018-19 and has noticed there are fewer British people working there as companies often recruit Irish or Swedish workers instead. “Some people have given up,” he said of those without an EU passport.
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