The case of Ana B. – a 50-year-old Portuguese woman – illustrates the increasing difficulties that public sector workers face since the beginning of the crisis and demonstrates the effects of the austerity measures on their position. Ana has been living in Switzerland for about six months. She moved there to work as a cleaner and caretaker. But Ana is no ordinary cleaner. She is a secretary at a government agency in the Portuguese city of Porto who took a one- year career break to come to Switzerland for a job that would allow her to pay her bills back home.
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