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Andorra turns to the temps caught by the COVID-19

Published: Apr 1, 2020

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1 Vallnord - Pal Arinsal lodges his seasonal workers in the Ribasol Park complex

2 Accommodation in Canillo

Ski Andorra and the Government of the small principality of the Pyrenees, have reached an agreement to rent a plane that will leave Tolouse and take temporary workers trapped in the country to one of the airports in Buenos Aires. This ends the journey of some people who found themselves trapped after the resorts and businesses closed on the 14th to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.

Or at least for a large part of them, because those who have an Iberia / Level ticket will have to keep waiting for the moment to see if this company and its low-cost subsidiary offer any solution for their customers. For those who will take this plane from Tolouse, the ticket has a cost of 600 euros, which will be largely paid by Ski Andorra and the Government.

The vast majority of these workers had a contract until April 12. And so they bought their airline tickets for a date after that day. When the ski resorts and businesses closed, they found that they could not go home because there was one month left for their return marked on the ticket. A problem because many of them stopped paying as soon as the companies closed. Some hotels have let them stay in their rooms, and the ski resorts have paid their payrolls until the end , in some cases even the check has been advanced, and they have been housed in apartments at no cost.

A big difference with what has been done in other countries such as France, where temporary workers have been seen parked in car parks, or they have been left in resort apartments where everyone had left and businesses had closed, leaving no possibility from not even buying food. In the United States, many of these people, together with the termination letter, had a paper placed on the door of their accommodation so that they could be abandoned in less than 10 days. There they had the same problem. Those who could not leave with their cars, it was because they had plane tickets with dates for the month of April. Finally, after popular and media pressure, large companies such as Vail Resorts or Alterra Mountain Co. agreed to extend their stays in the apartments and offered help for these people.

The behavior of the country of the Pyrenees has therefore differed greatly from most of these countries. Both Ski Andorra and the resorts and the Government have been concerned from the outset, not only so that their workers are cared for, but so that they can return to their homes to pass this health crisis with their own.. In some cases companies like Saetde paid taxis so that their workers could arrive at Barcelona airport to catch some of the last planes before all airlines except Aerolineas Argentinas ceased their flight operations to South America.

Furthermore, for many of these workers it is important to return to their countries because they must be on time to start work in the winter season that will start there in a little more than a couple of months. And at the moment there is no date for air routes or opening of borders to start again.

Vallnord - Pal Arinsal lodges his seasonal workers in the Ribasol Park complex

This is the case of the La Massana resort, which together with the Comú de la Parróquia, have been seeking accommodation for their temporary workers who have been trapped in Andorra.

After studying the demands of all the temporary workers who could not return, they asked the owners of different hotel establishments for collaboration. Finally, a solution has been found thanks to the free transfer of two of the owners of the Ribasol Park Complex , the Naudí family and Blaine Pollock.

A total of thirty temporary workers will stay, most of them Argentines. The maintenance of thirty people will also be guaranteed.. But note that the numbers could change as more requests may come in the coming days. At the moment, the security measures protocols are being worked to guarantee a safe confinement and it is also being finished analyzing how the food supply can be carried out in the safest possible way.

Both the Comú de la Massana and Vallnord - Pal Arinsal are grateful for this offer and make a public call to hotel establishments and tourist accommodation that want to join the initiative to help resolve this situation.

Apart from all this, EMAP is also offering advice to people who need to carry out administrative procedures.. It is recalled that during this season 570 workers with seasonal contracts have worked in Vallnord - Pal Arinsal, of which 250 have temporary permits in the country. A part of these workers have not been able to return to their country after the borders were closed due to the pandemic.

Accommodation in Canillo

This Parish has also wanted to find a solution for people who have worked in this area of Andorra and their rental contract for their accommodation will expire or they will not have the economic capacity to face it from now on after being suddenly fired.

There the Casal Sant Cerni , in the heart of the old town of Canillo, has been loaned free of charge , to which is added a gunwale in Meritxell. Both spaces also for about thirty people.

The Community of Canillo keeps in contact with different companies that manage apartments to ask for their collaboration through the temporary assignment of flats.

The latest data provided by the Andorran Government indicated that there are still 1,674 temporary workers registered in the registry opened by the Executive on the occasion of Covid-19 who cannot return to their country. Other measures that have been taken, in addition to accommodation and maintenance, are the extension of the residence permit to these people until May 2 and health coverage.

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