How serious are job ads that say "Your native language must be German"?
Not directly relevant to me because I am a native speaker but I have recently learned that it is pretty common for job ads in German speaking Switzerland to require someone to be a native speaker and that this is perfectly legal. The wording is usually something like "German must be your native language" and not the subtly different "must speak native-level German". The former seems like it purposefully excludes candidates based on nationality/parentage no matter how flawless their German is. Is this actually the case in practice or would you still stand a chance if you were say born in Italy and have lived in Zurich for 20 years and mastered the language? If yes it's strange that employers choose this sort of wording and if not that would be pretty outrageous to me even by Swiss standards.