The regions already play a major role in the training of job-seekers and apprentices. Has the support for the plan 500 000 priority training launched by François Hollande, the presidents hope to gain even more weight.
The regions, that François Hollande wants to put at the heart of its plan for jobs, is already playing a central role in the training of the unemployed and learning, reinforced by the act creating the 13 new major regions. Their presidents want to go further still, to be the “only pilot”. The regional councils have, since 1983, of a skill on the job training. It has been gradually supplemented, for the place today, with the Pôle emploi, in the first line for the training of the unemployed, a leading measure of the plan Holland which provides 500 000 further education and training in 2016.
1.12 billion euros of budget
regions buy the places of training. In 2014, nearly 365 000 job seekers entered into collective training on these seats, representing a total budget of 1.12 billion euros, according to figures from the Association of French regions (ARF), which brings together the ceos of regional councils. The figures for 2015 are still provisional, but the budget has increased as a result of an employer’s contribution to Fund the joint making career paths secure (FPSPP), managed by the social partners.
regions can also support, more marginal, individual training. The development of the training program is done after consultation with the professional branches. Once purchased, the offers are grouped together and put online for the advisers of Pole employment, which require these courses for the unemployed. The public operator may also purchase training, but they are shorter: on average, 200 hours, compared with 1000 to 1200 hours for those in the regions, the more “training” than”operational”.
The regions, “single-pilot”?
Since the law on the New organization of the territory of the Republic (Our) August 2015, which has strengthened the power of the regions in the economic field, the employment must obtain the prior consent of the region, which has strengthened the coordination between the two actors. The presidents of the regions, received on Tuesday by president François Hollande and Manuel Valls, want to, however, go further: the regions being according to them the best placed to know the needs of the business, they must be “the only driver of employment and training” and, therefore, only buyers.
A “singleness of command” would avoid, argues the ARF, any competition with the Pôle emploi: “today there are two procurement systems parallel, it is not optimal. It is sometimes found with empty places in the training sessions that it was purchased”.
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400 000 apprentices
The regions also play a central role in learning since they finance the training Centres for apprentices (CFA, more than 400 000 apprentices), with a budget of 1.9 billion euros in 2014. The reform of the apprenticeship tax in 2014 has forced the collectors of the tax to submit their proposals for allocation to the regions. But these do not have the last word, and would like to now have. On 18 January, the head of State said he was “ready to change the law if necessary” to extend their skills on the job.