New training system for employees whose jobs are threatened

This system is aimed at employees whose jobs are threatened and who position themselves on training for a promising profession locally, explained the Ministry of Labor during a telephone press briefing at the end of the social dialogue conference. in Matignon.

The system is intended to be territorialized and must be built around transition platforms where companies with employees to retrain and companies with recruitment needs will be put in touch.

Concretely, the remuneration and training of employees must be covered by the State up to 40% for companies with more than 1.000 employees. It will be 75% for companies with 300 employees up to 1.000, while for small and medium-sized companies or very small businesses, the state will take charge of 100% of the remuneration and training of employees, the ministry said. .

The cost for the State is estimated at 500 million euros within the framework of the FNE training (National Employment Fund), resources already budgeted and which could be adjusted upwards.

The ministry hopes that the device, whose implementation modalities remain to be "refined", can be fully operational "before the end of the year".

To this must be added the modification of several existing professional retraining systems, such as mobility leave and redeployment leave, in order to facilitate the transition from a sector affected by the crisis to one in tension.

The ministry also indicated that the long-term partial activity scheme (APLD) launched in July had "taken off", with more than 3.600 companies having signed an agreement, representing 200.000 jobs. Five branch agreements have also been signed and around twenty are under discussion.

This system authorizes a reduction in working time up to a maximum of 40% of non-working hours, subject to a company or branch agreement, from 6 to 24 months, validated by the administration and including commitments on employment and training.

The rue de Grenelle, however, reported a "downside" in the content of the agreements with regard to ambitions in terms of training while the logic of the device is to devote the time off, and said to "mobilize businesses".