The unions, which will give their final yes in the coming days, appreciate a rule that gives students rights such as expense allowances and limits their numbers depending on the size of the company
New government setback in social dialogue. The CEOE dropped this Monday from the principle of agreement reached by the Ministry of Labor with the unions to implement the scholarship statute that will force companies and universities to contribute for all students undergoing internships, although it will be a minimum amount, approximately 20 euros per month, as bonuses are proposed in installments of up to 90%. This was confirmed to this newspaper by sources from the unions present at the meeting they held this Monday, as well as from the employers, although the department headed by Yolanda Díaz denied this, pointing out that negotiations are still open, at lack of shutting down some problems «techniques».
UGT announced after the meeting that finalized the text of the new rule that limits the number of interns based on company size, that an “in principle agreement” had been reached with the government that it would put it to the vote in its internal organs in the coming days. Similarly, CC OO acknowledged that the document seemed fine to them, although the executive will give the final yes.
The organization led by Pepe Álvarez appreciated that the standard “grants a very important and avant-garde catalog of rights in our country, in line with what Europe demands”, such as compensating young people for the expenses arising from work, allowing they are absent to, among other things, attend exams or other types of testing or provide them with an individual training plan.
UGT pointed out that the new statute “continues and puts an end to the main modalities of fraud created around this figure”, and also emphasized that “it perfectly delineates the boundary between training action and productive work with a very defined scope”.
The CEOE is no at a time when relations between businessmen and the government are very tense and just hours after the second vice president and minister of labor, Yolanda Díaz, accused the employers of “blocking the negotiating group”, and more specifically, the status of the scholarship holder.
“Spanish employers have to decide whether to opt for a European model, as designed by the Labor Reform and thus the European countries as a whole towards a dual training model, or whether Mr Garamendi positions himself in the models based on uncertainty,” warned Díaz, who assured his department that they have been trying to reach an agreement with employers since before the summer to approve the scholarship status.
The CEOE is no to this rule, which comes after anger at the surprising 8.6% increase in maximum bases, joins others before it, such as the latest increase in the minimum wage or the new Intergenerational Equality Mechanism (MEI). His support for the second phase of the pension reform therefore seems more than complicated.
Source: La Verdad
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