The government has started to develop the content of the Scholarship Status. The text was agreed only with the unions (there was no consensus with employers or rectors) in June 2023 and involves regulation in general terms. training practices of regulated training within private companies.
A regulation that will be implemented through a bill that the Ministry of Labor of Yolanda Díaz has put out for public consultation, and which includes at least something new compared to what was agreed with the unions.
According to the text, the regulation of non-professional training practices will be supplemented by “the establishment of a set of rights linked to aspects closely linked to work”. Among them, The document explicitly includes that of “conciliation”.
What does the document refer to? Although the text does not explicitly mention it, The spirit of the regulation seeks to assimilate certain rights of interns with those of their colleagueswith those who share a work environment.
In the event of conciliation, there are several transferable rights. Those that seem the clearest are those corresponding to the reduction or adjustment of the working day for the direct care of minors, disabled people, family members or spouses.
In this sense, it should be remembered that the Workers’ Statute provides for direct exemptions for adapt the day when caring for a child under 12 or a family member (here the legislation does not impose limits).
The text from the Ministry of Labor indicates that the interns They will also acquire more rights outside of conciliation: They will benefit from protection against harassment and in terms of prevention of professional risks.
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As already indicated in the agreement signed between the Ministry of Labor and the unions (and for which there was no consensus with the employers), the bill will establish “compensation of expenses” to be able to carry out the activity during training.
In this way, its development will not represent “an expense for people in training, nor an obstacle to their access for those who have less economic capacity“.
It should be remembered that the status of scholarships finds its origin in the legal void in which people who carry out regulated training courses find themselves (Professional, university training and within the framework of public employment services) within private companies.
However, the document submitted for public consultation specifies that the implementation of this measure aims to put an end to the fraud of certain businessmen in the use of interns. “Regulations are needed to clearly and effectively avoid the possible use of this figure to fraudulent concealment of recruitment“.
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A practice which represents not only a fraud “on workers’ rights, but also on the resources of the social security system itself”.
It should be remembered that at the time of the conclusion of the agreement with the unions on the status of the stock exchanges, There were some disagreements with the socialist part of the government. In fact, PSOE ministries claim that all measures still need to be agreed internally.
Despite this, it seems that they are delegating responsibility to Yolanda Díaz’s department. “This is a proposal that falls under the Ministry of Labor and which in this case falls under the responsibility of the vice-president,” he said. Elma SaizMinister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, this week.
In any case, the text support from university students does not count. At least for now. The Coordinator of Student Representatives of Public Universities (CREUP) clarified that “at no time” did she support the text of the Scholarship Status and the public hearing process.
