Police check on illegal workers in the city

Four cleaning employees were working without a work permit and were staying inSwitzerland illegally. The women and the manager of a cleaning company were arrestedby the Zug Police

During a targeted check against illegal employment, officers from the Zug Police discovered five women carrying out cleaning work in a property on the Baarerstrasse in the city of Zug on Tuesday evening, 27 August. They were checked on suspicion of working without a licence, as the Zug Police reported in a press release on Monday. It emerged that four of the women were staying in Switzerland illegally and were working as cleaners without a work permit. The fifth woman was the manager of a cleaning company.

According to the police, all the women have Serbian citizenship and are aged between 34 and 57. All five people were arrested.

Four women sentenced by summary judge and already deported
The four cleaning employees were sentenced to a fine by the summary judge of the Public Prosecutor's Office for multiple offences against the Foreign Nationals and Integration Act (Ausländer- und Integrationsgesetz). The women were expelled from the country by the Office for Migration and have already been deported. They have also been banned from entering Switzerland and the Schengen states for two years.

The manager, on the other hand, will be reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Canton of Zug. She is suspected of having enabled a total of nine Serbian nationals to enter and leave Switzerland illegally between July 2023 and August 2024 and of having employed them in her company without a work permit.