Assistance for hiring an apprentice is renewed in 2024

“Year after year, the development of work-study training proves its worth, legitimizing more than ever the objective of one million apprentices per year,” said the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, quoted in the press release.

This bonus concerns the hiring of an apprentice of any age or an employee under professionalization contract under 30 years old. It is granted unconditionally to companies with fewer than 250 employees. Larger companies are also eligible but under conditions, namely reaching a threshold of work-study contracts or contracts promoting professional integration in their workforce, by the end of December 2025.

According to figures from the Ministry of Employment, France had a total of 2023 apprentices in secondary and higher education at the end of October 1.017.500, an increase of 6,2% compared to the end of October 2022.

At the end of October 2023, 780.200 apprenticeship contracts had started since the start of the year, an increase of 2,8% year-on-year.

The government has set a target of one million contracts signed in 2027.

The growth in apprenticeships can be explained both by the 2018 reform (which notably liberalized the opening of training centers and extended apprenticeships to 26-29 year olds), as well as by employment bonuses. hiring.

In mid-December, Parliament definitively adopted a text intended to promote an “Erasmus of learning” by facilitating the international mobility of work-study students.