The European Commission published a new roadmap on Thursday 29 July to review the EU Council Recommendation on a quality framework for traineeships. It had undertaken to do so in response to criticism from MEPs last October (see EUROPE 12577/17).
In particular, MEPs had insisted on the need to ensure that traineeships under the ‘Youth Guarantee’ (see EUROPE 12517/6) are paid and limited in duration and number “so that young people are not trapped in never-ending repeated traineeships and exploited as cheap or even free labour, and without social protection and pension rights”.
The EU Council Recommendation, adopted in 2014, urges States to improve the quality of traineeships, including the learning content, and to improve working conditions in order to facilitate the transition from education, unemployment, or inactivity to work.
As part of the review of this text, the Commission will first take stock of the situation since 2014 and assess the effectiveness and relevance of the Recommendation in the light of current needs.
The Commission’s roadmap on the subject will be open for comment until 25 August, followed by a second consultation in the first quarter of 2022. For more details: https://bit.ly/2V0Bm94 (Original version in French by Agathe Cherki)