Today, March 10, the Council of EU Ministers adopted a recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships. This action, which isn’t binding for the Member States, acknowledged that minimum supervision and regulations are necessary to allow trainees to gain professional experience without being exploited.
Fight abuses and improve the quality of traineeships. For about 20 years, traineeships have become a major way to access the labor market, the recommendation adopted on March 10 points out. And, whereas combating youth unemployment is a priority everywhere in Europe, and traineeships are definitely a stepping stone to durably access the labor market, the recommendation recognizes that repeated traineeships are replacing regular employment and that the multiplication of low-quality internships (little learning content and poor working conditions) are detrimental to the objective of youth integration.
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