When corporate abuses become a habit: the insufficient protection given by the law to grant holders and trainee university students

Regarding Supreme Court Ruling 508/2022, of 1 June

Abstract

It is becoming more and more frequent that companies –and even public institutions– resort to the figure of trainee university students or grant holders to, under the pretext of providing them with training that improves their professional skills and their employability, meet staffing needs at a lower cost, thus concealing an employment relationship. The present analysis aims to highlight the insufficiency of the current regulatory framework regarding internships carried out by said students, underlining the need for a new regulation that prevents the constant corporate abuses seen by our judges and protects more strongly the rights of these young people in our country.