Overview
- The presidency published a full veto Monday in the Official Gazette on a bill that would count internships as work experience.
- The government cited constitutional flaws, saying the bill would centralize rulemaking in the presidency and breach states’ and cities’ autonomy.
- Officials said treating internships as experience would undercut the educational purpose of internships and skew fairness in public hiring exams.
- The veto now goes to a joint session of Congress, which can overturn it with 257 deputies and 41 senators voting to reject the decision.
- The proposal, approved by the Senate in April, sought to change the 2008 Internship Law to let candidates use internship time to meet experience rules in public exams, a shift billed as help for people seeking a first job.