financial boost, age limit extended, right to work relaxed… Édouard Philippe unveiled on Friday the details of the reform of learning.

The government wants to strengthen the learning and make this channel more known. Since several years, the objective of 500 000 apprentices can barely be reached. There are “only” 421 700 apprentices in 2017, only 7% of young people aged 16 to 25 years compared to 15% among our european neighbours. To achieve and exceed this goal, the government intends to reform the full model that underpins the learning.

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Referring regularly to a “copernican revolution”, the government has announced, Friday, 9 February, 28 the measures envisaged to review the system of training. After a consultation stormy between the employers, the unions, the regions, it is therefore time to decide.

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The government has decided to devise a new framework oriented towards the needs of enterprises. “We go from the initial training to vocational training, explains the ministry of Labour. The learning will be regulated by the professional world, and more fully by the public authorities.”

By giving more power to the branches and enterprises, the government withdrew a little to the regions, even if it is defended. This choice, of course, cringe. The regions have immediately condemned a project that is not responding to “real issues” of learning, and who could create “territorial fractures”. Novelty of the reform, however: the regions are now getting “responsibility orientation”, which had national education. Support to organize the promotion of learning in the colleges.

Among other changes announced, a dozen for the apprentices themselves, who will see their pay be slightly increased.

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These reforms will be contained in a bill which will be presented in mid-April in a block that will also include measures on unemployment insurance and vocational training. Review of the main points.

1. Financial boost for apprentices

All young people of 16 to 20 years of learning will earn 30 euros net per month. 18 year olds in learning will collect and 715 euros net per month.

The young people of 18 years or more will also receive assistance of € 500 to fund the licence, which according to the minister of Labour “should cover half of the budget of the permit”.

2. The age limit extended

It will now be possible to get a learning up to 30 years are not included. In the clear, until his 30 th birthday a young person can register in the chain. Up to now, the maximum age was 26 years.

The apprentices will also benefit from the Erasmus programme. Their employment contract may be suspended during their stay abroad, credits will be allocated to 150, 000 young people can enjoy a semester in another country. Today they are only 7 000 to spend a few weeks in a foreign country.

3. Recruitment aid merged

The three aids to the hiring of current will be unified and targeted on SMALL and micro SMES with less than 250 employees. The CPME has immediately welcomed the end of the “complexity and the heterogeneity of aid to undertakings”.

using per contract will be more than 6000 euros for two years. The rest is up to the company must be decreased to virtually 100 euros per month. This assistance will be paid by the State and distributed by the regions,who will be able to contribute if they wish.

4. Certain obligations of labour law more flexible

In some branches, the current rules of labour law are that the apprentices are not necessarily permitted to work. In sectors such as the bakery or the BTP, the rules will be revised. In this building the maximum working hours will be increased to 40 hours with paid overtime beyond 35 hours, without the need to obtain prior approval of the labour inspectorate. In the same way, the working hours in the bakery and the pastry can be relaxed so that the learner knows best the reality of the business.

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Until now, in the event of termination of the employment contract by the employer after the trial period of 45 days, he was obliged to pass by the prud’hommes. A fact “extremely rare” according to the government, since according to him “only 1% of ruptures were happening as well, the vast majority took place in the court.” In these rare cases, the obligation was expected. It has now been removed.

For his part, the apprentice, who wants to break his contract shall be accompanied by a mediator.

5. The diplomas will be co-authored by the branches and the State

The repositories activity and competence diplomas will be written by the branches. In the case of a BTS industrial by exemple, the prerequisites and required skills will be will be determined by the industrial sector. For the government, it is best to adapt the training to the needs of the labour market.

Even the examination regulations will be decided by the professional sectors and the State. Objective: the diplomas, they, too, correspond to the needs of the business.

6. A funding entirely revised

For the moment, the building is financed by the apprenticeship tax paid by businesses. 51% of the amount is paid back to the regions or 1.6 billion euros.

This tax will be replaced by a “contribution alternation”, the share of which shall be fixed by the social partners in the coming weeks. This contribution will fund the CFA based on the number of contracts that will be signed. Again, everything will be thought in function of the needs.

The regions will still income, but they will be less important. They will receive about € 250 million from the “contribution alternation” and 180 million euros in the TIPCE (the internal tax on the consumption of energy products).

7. More transparent information for young people

Now, each Centre of training of apprentices (CFA) will unveil its rate of insertion into the employment as well as the success rates of the degree and the rate of continuation of studies. The information on the wages of the trades referred to will also be published so that families can make the choice of orientation in all knowledge of cause.

8. Contract terms will be simplified

The duration of the apprenticeship contract signed between the company and the apprentice will be able to be modulated according to the level of qualification of the latter. Other changes: the possibility of hiring a young person at any time of the school year.

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