As of: February 20, 2024, 9:00 p.m
By: Johannes Thoma
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The kitchen team at the “Post” inn in Eberfing: (from left) the kitchen assistants Gabor Vidakovic (Serbia) and Vasyl Kryvoskeia (Ukraine), chef David Tölgyesi, the kitchen assistants Szilvia Nagy (both Hungary) and Gabriela Bica (Romania), host Bernhard Schmidt- Pauly.
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In the district, almost 7,000 foreigners are currently working in jobs subject to social insurance contributions - that's two and a half times as many as in 2010. If they had to leave the country - as the AfD's plans envisage - some companies would have to severely limit their offerings and others would even have to close completely.
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– “We could no longer maintain operations in the kitchen without our foreign workers,” says Bernhard Schmidt-Pauly, tenant of the “Zur Post” inn in Eberfing.
Around two thirds of the employees in the kitchen at the inn, which is also popular with foreigners, do not have a German passport, says Schmidt-Pauly.
The inn, which also has adjoining rooms and rooms, has a total of 19 employees.
Five of them are foreigners.
“They take on a lot of work that Germans are often too good for,” says Schmidt-Pauly, who took over the inn eight years ago.
The collaboration works well, as can be seen in the low fluctuation.
An employee without a German passport has been working at the inn for over 20 years.
Roche doesn't keep statistics: "The passport doesn't matter"
People from 81 nations work at “Roche Diagnostics” in Penzberg. Ferdinand von Reinhardstoettner, spokesman for corporate communications at Roche in Penzberg, cannot say how many of the almost 7,700 employees are foreigners.
There are no statistics about this.
What he can say: Foreigners are employed in almost all areas of the company - including as managers.
“Different structures simply bring more dynamism,” continues von Reinhardstoettner.
And Roche is always looking for new workers: currently in the areas of “research and development”, such as automation technicians and engineers in mechanical engineering or process engineering”.
The passport doesn't play a role, said the Roche spokesman.
“We would have to close it down, and immediately,” replies Rainer Schlosser when asked what would happen if foreigners no longer worked in the Weilheim community center.
Around 120 employees, many of them part-time, look after the almost 200 residents of the retirement home on Münchener Straße.
Around 50 employees do not have a German passport – “but are very motivated to work in nursing,” says Schlosser.
The proportion of foreign workers is continuously increasing
Even employees with initial language barriers would quickly find their way around.
In the past, the community center even offered its own language courses.
That is no longer necessary today; the employees do it on their own initiative.
“The people who want this remigration should simply think about who will look after their parents or them,” says Schlosser.
The first guest workers came to the district in the 1950s.
As early as the end of the 19th century, Italians helped expand railway lines in the region.
Many have stayed, as the Italian-sounding names of long-established Raistinger families confirm, for example.
According to the employment agency, Italians are no longer the largest group of foreign workers in the district.
There are now more Turks, Croats and Romanians working in the district.
Most of them work in manufacturing, healthcare or restaurants.
The proportion of foreign workers has risen continuously in recent years.
More than one in eight employees in the district now does not have a German passport.
The proportion has almost doubled since 2010.