Monday, August 22, 2016

Companies are forcing trainees to return part of salary – Renaissance (press release)

There are scams on professional stages of the Employment and Vocational Training Institute. According to “Jornal de Notícias”, there are bosses to require trainees that return the contribution the company’s earnings.

This part is between 20% and 35% of the intern’s salary. In addition, some employers also require that they be trainees pay the single social tax (23.75%), which is the employer.

The complaint is made to the paper by the President of the National Youth Council, Hugo Carvalho, for whom the scheme sets up a real money laundering. But there is no formalized complaint because young people need these stages, he adds.

JN, the IEFP, the body that manages the allocation of traineeships and ensure that the largest share of the subsidy, says unaware of the practice.

The most affected sectors are architecture professionals, small businesses, psychology and law. Only the Order of Psychologists said to have knowledge of that fraud, which led to implement three years ago, a plan to combat what is a team to watch over the 3,500 companies with whom the Order has agreement.

newspaper, the National Youth Council says even suspect the practice of tax evasion by companies that exert that kind of pressure on the interns.

A trainee with a degree receives 691 euros per month gross. Returns imposed by the employer can go up to 400 euros. Everything below the table.

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