The Scholarship Statute will set a minimum salary for the scholarship modality, as well as other limits in terms of dates.
The Scholarship Statute, which is expected to be approved shortly, will cause a series of changes in companies with the aim of increasing the protection of workers as a result of the labor reform.
This statute will collect the remuneration that the scholarship holders will have to receive from the companies for the work they do in them. In addition, it will also include information on the contribution for academic practices.
The remuneration received by the intern must cover, as established in the regulations, the expenses generated by the activity of the students. It will therefore be essential for companies to pay them for their work and to register them with Social Security.
Even if they are not employees of the company, during the scholarship period, the scholarship recipients will have the same rights as the rest of the company's employees. This will mean that their breaks must be respected, including the holidays and vacations that correspond to them.
Limit of hours and interns
The Scholarship Statute will also establish the limit of hours that the scholarship holders may carry out, as well as the maximum number of scholarship holders hired in a single company.
In addition, the statute will set a limit for chaining internship periods. This means that companies will not be able to hire interns unlimitedly.
Companies with up to 10 workers may only have one intern, those with between 11 and 30, two interns; three may have those with between 31 and 59 employees, while companies with more than 60 workers may have a maximum of 5% of the workforce as interns.
When an intern is hired, a person from the company must take charge of him. This is the figure of the tutor, who will be a professional from the company to whom the intern can turn in the event of a problem. However, tutors may only be assigned a maximum of 5 scholarship holders.
In UGT they have also asked to increase the sanctions on companies that resort to the figure of the false intern. It should be remembered that since 2018 the Labor Inspectorate has discovered almost 5,000 false scholarship holders
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