Swiss Entrepreneur Trains Young Migrants in the Field of Electricity

There are stories that are self-sufficient, because they are like pretty tales that thumb their noses at the ambient cynicism. Take an entrepreneur and PLR MP from Vaud with a post-radical humanist tendency, with the air of an old-fashioned boss in “good dad” mode. Put a young unemployed migrant in his path and make him say: “Why not.” Ten years later, Guy Gaudard, founder of the electricity company of the same name run by his daughter Aurore Müller-Gaudard, is pleased to have trained a dozen migrants, out of around thirty apprentices. The last three obtained a federal capacity certificate (CFC) in June.

Last May, The weather had interviewed Guy Gaudard, who positions himself against the forced return of migrants to Croatia under the Dublin regulation, against the current of his own party. In an aging society, the entrepreneur believes that people seeking asylum in Switzerland are an under-exploited force, especially in the field of electricity, where the labor shortage is “impressive according to his daughter. “It is for me an inestimable pride,” said Guy Gaudard about the training of young migrants, who come out of his home with a professional certificate “without going through social assistance”. A few weeks later, he let us know that three of these apprentices, out of seven currently in training, had obtained their CFC.