Spain youth organization RUGE denounces several companies for fraudulent portals

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The youth organization of UGT, RUGE (Ugetista Revolution) has denounced several companies before the Labor and Social Security Inspection for developing fraudulent hiring, something that this group has discovered by joining job offers and participating in interviews to these posts, reports Europa Press.

According to the organization in a statement, after attending "various interviews to learn about the reality of scholarships offered by large employment platforms and placement agencies" they discovered that "many of them established contracts through a fraudulent mechanism by which obliges young people who apply for the scholarship to sign up for courses in private training centers in order to be hired."

"RUGE has put all the information in the knowledge of the labor authority so that it puts the spotlight on this abuse that affects thousands of working people in our country," they added in the statement.

This action by UGT youth is part of a campaign to denounce "the abuses that are committed on young people" and so that "the Government becomes aware of the need to carry out an in-depth legislative modification and establish once and for all a Statute of Non-Labor Practices".

The practices that RUGE has denounce consist of offering through job portals and placement agencies offers for people who, after finishing their studies, seek their first job.

"The advertisers explain to them that they need to be studying or enrolled in a course and offer them to do some through private training centers. They are very short courses that, in many cases, are not even related to the functions they are going to perform in the company and it is not necessary to complete them because it is only a legal procedure to be able to make a collaboration agreement," said this organization.

According to RUGE, all these people agree to sign up for that course and make those scholarships under the promise of a subsequent hiring. First, they find that they must pay for a course that lacks content. In addition, when they join the company they see that between 60% and 80% of the workforce is made up of other new entrants, that there is no internship tutor, nor any responsibility in their departments.

"Thus, from the first day they are performing the functions of a worker, with full autonomy, but without labor rights and charging, in the best case, 400 euros per month for doing 8 hours or more," adds RUGE, which has not specified in its statement the companies to which it has denounced.

For the UGT youth organization, "this type of business practices lowers working conditions and involves fraud in hiring and social security contributions." In addition, he adds, "the low price to which these companies are subject is subsidized, which implies a great loss of resources for public coffers and the welfare state."

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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