SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 16. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of CEOE-Tenerife, Pedro Alfonso, said this Tuesday that “there is no problem” for companies to take in students from public universities on internships after the centers warned that their inclusion in the system is mandatory. of the Social Security.
In a statement released by the employers, he pointed out that the last agreement on pensions reached with the central government included a 95% drop in contributions, which represents an average monthly cost of eight euros, “an easily affordable amount for companies “.
Alfonso has pointed out that business practices are a “social duty” that also “directs” young people to contribute to the state pension fund and has been surprised by the position of the Canary Islands universities since they have not been “agreed upon” with businessmen.
The president of the Tenerife businessmen links the criticism to a “financing problem” of the universities themselves because “they do not have money” to pay their own scholarship holders and thus make up for the lack of hiring teachers.
Along these lines, he has indicated that “it is very far from being a business problem” even though the positions with the Ministry of Labor to approve the scholarship holder’s statute are still distant.
Likewise, he has indicated that with the private universities that have agreements with CEOE-Tenerife there are no difficulties in granting internships which, not in vain, are the “great asset” of university graduates to improve their employability.
