The council of Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo) has to compensate them for having paid them only 300 euros a month to replace municipal employees on vacation
The Social Court No. 2 of Toledo has ordered the city council of Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo) to compensate the “false interns” hired by this church council in the summer of 2108 to replace municipal workers during their summer vacations. In this way, the city council of this municipality of 11,000 inhabitants, then governed by the PP with the support of Ciudadanos, saved social security contributions and salaries.
The case, which was discovered by the Labor Inspectorate in 2019 and which forced the municipality to pay the premiums that corresponded to the real situation of the fake trainees, later ended up in court via CC.OO. This union believes that these cases are a double scam for the fake intern – in salaries and contributions – and are also a Social Security fraud. Now the Quintanar de la Orden City Council has to pay those “false interns” the difference between the 300 euros per month they received and the salary that actually corresponded to their position for the position they held.
The ruling states that the employment relationship linking the trainees to this municipal administration was “from the outset of an employment character” and that “there is no evidence of the existence of a training program, neither of an individual tutor, nor of a certificate of completion of internships for these people who worked 9am to 2pm Monday to Friday, the summer day in many public administrations, including town halls.
The ruling adds that “the applicants for the scholarship have voluntarily and paid and have provided services autonomously, with the presumed fellows almost always alone, without understanding that the educational interest of the scholarship predominates and the business interest, thereby reducing the amount of the scholarship in salary and the agreement between the parties in an employment contract, declaring the existence of an employment relationship between the city council as employer and the employees».
Following this sentence, CC.OO. in Castilla-La Mancha, Juan Carlos del Puerto, claimed that “the new scholarship statute negotiated by the government, unions and employers should respect the conditions of young people and protect the rights of scholarship holders, who are in many cases used as cheap labor and continuously available to the company, something that is far from the goal of non-work practices, which is to improve the employability of studies».
Source: La Verdad
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