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Myself and my husband are moving to villamartin on 16th september and are both looking for work. My husband is looking for painting or decorating work, handy man work anything really. Iam a hairdresser but im looking for any kind of work.
Can anyone help, we were thinking of starting our own property maintance company.
Posted: Wed Sep 5, 2018 2:23pm
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You are likely to struggle unfortunately. Unless you have a working knowledge of Spanish, the possibility of employment is remote. There are already a plethora of firms offering all kinds of services to the ex-pats. There will be a few English run hairdressing salons around and perhaps you could rent a chair. However, to be legal you would both need to register as ‘autonomo’, self-employed, which will immediately bring you into the Spanish social security and tax system; the fines for working illegally will not be funny. It isn’t really likely that there will be any official employment with a contract and health care and so on. You will also have to have private healthcare unless you are in receipt of UK pension - the EHIC is strictly for tourist emergency use, although some places will let you use it.
