The Senate is perpetuating a training system for professional integration

The bill by Macronist Senator Nadège Havet, supported by the government, was unanimously approved at first reading. It has now been submitted to the National Assembly.

It intends to perpetuate a temporary system launched in 2018 and which has benefited more than 35.000 people in five years: the experimental professionalization contract.

This specific contract is derived from the standard professionalization contract - the "pro contract" which is aimed at less qualified personnel (young people, job seekers, recipients of minimum social benefits). According to its advocates, it offers more "flexibility" by allowing employees to acquire only one or more skill blocks, without requiring them to prepare for the entire training course.

This "flexibility remains very interesting in order, on the one hand, to offer people rapid and effective integration or reintegration through employment; and on the other, to respond to companies that cannot find the skills they are looking for," maintained Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq, Minister Delegate for Disabilities.

Several sectors, such as the food industry and mobility, have made extensive use of this "experimental professional contract."

The pilot scheme, extended until the end of 2023 by law and then by ministerial letter until 2024, had been without legal backing for several months, weakening the situation of beneficiaries and employers. This text addresses this by making it permanent.

The left-wing groups nevertheless abstained, denouncing the very late receipt of an evaluation report on the system, transmitted by the government only the day before the Senate's examination.