The conference of rectors (Crue Universidades Españolas) has shown itself this Saturday against the Scholarship Statute that the Government and the unions, CCOO and UGT finalize, considering that the model it proposes will reduce the offer of university internships.
In a statement, the Crue values ??the latest draft of this project already closed by Vice President Yolanda Díaz this Saturday. A content that for the most part is rejected by Crue Universidades Españolas, made up of 76 public and private Spanish universities, which defends that the internships of university students “are a strictly academic matter” whose legal regime should not be agreed upon.
Although they do not question that the Government and the unions establish the border between what are academic practices and what are not, Crue is critical of interference in aspects that are only the responsibility of the Ministry of Universities and in the universities themselves.
Among them, it rejects the establishment of mandatory compensation for the expenses that the internship may incur and predicts that this aspect will lead to “a dramatic decrease in the number of companies and, above all, public entities willing to host internships” .
Yolanda Díaz announced this Saturday, during a pre-election act of Sumar, that the Ministry of Labor that she heads and the unions have reached an agreement to deploy the Scholarship Statute. “We finally have agreements with unions to no longer have false scholarship holders and to have the status that our country deserves,” she proclaimed.
After more than a year of negotiations, the agreement on the standard that aims to regulate the working conditions of internship students has been reached without the support of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE).
For its part, UGT indicated that the norm will include “a large part” of the union demands, such as the clear definition of practices to avoid fraud, the compensation of expenses or the establishment of an effectively dissuasive sanctioning regime.
For its part, the employers have rejected the form of the agreement because “the approval of this norm is not appropriate in a period of dissolution of the Chambers nor is there an urgent and extraordinary need”, and it does not support it “in substance”.
In his opinion, the so-called Scholarship Statute “limits the number of hours so much and increases the bureaucracy so much that it will harm the practical training of students, something essential to guarantee their employability and to build bridges between theoretical training and the world of work” . In this regard, he added that “there are also discrepancies between the regulation of this standard and the recently approved university regulations, with which the risk of incurring sanctions due to lack of legal certainty is high.”
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