El Ministerio de Juventud e Infancia, a través del Instituto de la Juventud de España (Injuve), ha lanzado el 'Mailbox of the Fellows: Denounce the bad practices', an initiative to help anonymously report abuses and cases of exploitation of trainee students, in collaboration with the State Agency for Labour and Social Security Inspection (OEITSS).
Since 2021 there is an agreement that protects the mutual collaboration between OEITSS and INJUVE in various actions aimed at combating the job insecurity of young people. As a result of this agreement, this mailbox tool was born, in order to collect information on non-work practices. Two institutions that have, in the words of Cristina Fernández, director of the OEITSS, a common goal: “the protection of the youngest people in the workplace and in access to employment” because “youth is a particularly vulnerable group that needs the attention of the Public Administrations.”
The tool will allow, as explained by the minister of youth, Sira Rego, denounce situations such as the lack of relationship between studies and practice, the covert replacement of regular workers, the performance of the same work as company personnel, the lack of tutoring or the assignment of tasks that exceed the scope of practice. The INJUVE will collect this information and will be forwarded to the ITSS for the planning of inspection actions.
One of the challenges of the ITSS focuses on the control of the undeclared work of those people who are affected by the figure of the “false scholar”. how it picks up Annual Report of 2024 Of the agency (the last available), 802 actions were carried out in this area in 2024, which resulted in the emergence of 187 jobs, of which 132 were false scholarship holders. The amount of assessed contributions settled as a result of the previous proceedings amounted to Euro456,904.91.
"We are aware that sometimes these non-work practices conceal real work relationships and that this concealment is made in order to reduce business costs in labor and social security and, at the same time, reduce rights," he said. Cristina Fernández, director of the OEITSS, in an act that also counted on the presence of the second vice-president of the government, Yolanda Díaz.
