El becario-trabajador

Abstract

 The fight against job insecurity involves arbitrating a series of legal reforms that guarantee stability in employment, so that – regardless of the most accurate assessment that we can offer in the light of real, upcoming and future data – the reinforcement of indefinite labor contracting marks the starting point from which to start.

The second pillar -in our opinion- that requires the attention of the legislator is training, because only by guaranteeing this and not limiting it to a specific stage of the vital evolution of the person, we can reach that goal to which the human being of professional fulfillment attends.

On the basis of these two foundations, there is, in our view, an institution that necessarily has to be rethought in order to ensure that its true essence is fulfilled. We refer to scholarships and, although the regulation of the commonly called "Statute of the scholarship holder" has been postponed, it seems appropriate to examine - today - what are the real problems facing this figure, how and when it has been used to disguise what are authentic labor relations.

It is our intention to carry out an eminently casuistic analysis based on the judicial pronouncements to try to infer from it the current weaknesses faced by the scholarship holder (or supposed scholarship holder) and what are the rights / guarantees that should be contemplated normatively.