Scholarship holders will not be able to work at night or in shifts, and the company will have to compensate for their transportation, accommodation and maintenance expenses. In addition, internships cannot be carried out outside the academic curriculum, that is, they must be recognized by universities or professional training centers. In this way, extracurricular internships are ended, although they are granted a transition period of three years.
These are the elements included in the proposal for the Scholarship Statute to which La Vanguardia has had access, on which the Ministry of Labor and CC.OO. and UGT have reached an agreement in principle, while the employers have distanced themselves from the pact.
Other elements included in the document are a limit to the number of interns according to the company's staff. Specifically, they may not exceed 20% of the total number of workers, although any company may have two interns regardless of its number of employees. The presence of tutors is also required to coordinate the work of the fellows in the training center, the monitoring of their training itinerary and the final evaluation. Each tutor will have a maximum of 5 people in practical training, a number that will be reduced to 3 in the case of companies with less than 30 workers.
Once the principle of agreement has been reached, now the bodies of both CC.OO. as of UGT must endorse it.
UGT highlights that the text allows to pursue the modalities of fraud in tone to this figure, delimits the line between training action and productive work with a very defined scope of application in each case, and also includes compensation of expenses, contributions and individualized training plan, “in line with what Europe demands”. For its part, CC.OO. positively evaluates the text presented.
Union sources also added that the employers have distanced themselves from the agreement. For their part, in the CEOE they state that they remain open to continue negotiating.
The great promoter of this Internship Statute, the Second Vice President and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, has always stressed that the new rule must end the abuse of interns by companies and just yesterday, she called on the CEOE lift your lockdown. She asked him to decide if he "opts for a European model like the one that designs the labor reform towards a dual training model", or "positions himself with the model based on precariousness"
