ANDHe Ministry of Labor reached an agreement in principle with the unions for the new Scholarship Status.duration most CEO gets rid of it. Yolanda Díaz will now have to decide when to take the rule to the Cabinet, which aims to force companies and universities to make some payments. nail due to the length of time they have students in internship as a minimum. This is confirmed by the various sources of the Ministry of Labor present at the meeting. continued with social agents this Monday afternoon. The businessmen’s ‘no’ to the last text sent by the executive forces the department led by the second vice-president to agree exclusively with the unions on the reform, the unions will send the final text to the highest governing bodies after this last meeting. finish describing your game. However, ftoo much CCOO and UGT They speak of a preliminary agreement and admit that the terms negotiated to date put them in ‘yes’.
The business establishment, led by Antonio Garamendi, has said ‘no’ to raising labor costs, consistent with positions it has defended in recent months. They have long since moved away from the recent increase in the minimum wage and the pension contract that raised operating wages. Now they have stated that they do not agree with the final conditions, including. 90% bonus for contributions unemployment. The new rule, which will end extracurricular internships as of 2025, sets an upper limit for intern students according to the size of the companies and obliges the companies to pay the interns’ transportation fees.
However, they argued that the problem of contribution from the employers’ association was not the main problem in the negotiation process, and in the case of university students, they regretted that this figure was excluded from extracurricular practices.
The government is delaying ratification of the Scholarship Status reform, both to resolve its internal differences and to try to attract employers to an agreement. from Ministry of Universities and Rectors Conference universities are the main employers of interns in the country, while they are reluctant to negotiate the new rule. Social Security, which was also part of the talks there, increased quota bonuses to 90% to overcome that opposition to a predictable increase in costs.
The employers did not sign the agreement, although they always resisted to end the negotiations. Until last Monday, they refused to attend the scheduled meeting, claiming they had received the documents too little in advance. No actor wants to be the party that concludes negotiations where a three-way agreement has not emerged. The Labor Party does not want to appear to be closing without trying to catch the businessmen to the end, nor do they want to be seen as rejecting any offer.