More than one million training courses funded since 2018 thanks to the skills investment plan

"Compared to our overall objective, which was to train two million additional people over the entire five-year period -from 2018 to 2022-, at the end of 2020 we are at a little more than half of the objective," said Carine. Seiler, High Commissioner for Skills, during a videoconference with the Ministry of Labor, on this "mid-term" assessment.

Since 2018, 1,079 million additional people have been trained thanks to the "PIC" for which 7,2 billion euros have been "already committed". It is in the trajectory "of what was planned" by this plan of 15 billion euros over five years for young people removed from the labor market and job seekers with little or no qualifications, she continued. .

And "we will achieve the objectives of two million additional courses over the entire five-year period with the projections that we make for 2021 and 2022", with respectively 530.000 and 510.000 entries into training planned thanks to the PIC, and 150.000 others via the recovery plan .

More than a million entries into training

In total, since 2019, more than a million entries into training have been recorded each year, of which around 40% are financed by the PIC, whereas before 2015 the number of entries into training for people excluded from employment was an average of "650.000" people each year, she detailed.

As a result, the rate of access to training is improving: while in 2015, one in ten unemployed people were taking training, in 2020 "nearly one in six unemployed" is concerned, according to Ms. Seiler.

The rate of access to employment six months after training, which had increased by 1,5 points before the health crisis, to 57,6%, on the other hand suffered from the Covid-19 crisis, falling to 50,8, XNUMX%.

This drop of 7 points will "undoubtedly" not be completely caught up, because the crisis "will take a few months and a few years to reabsorb", but the objective is to catch up in part, which will depend "on the recovery, on the reopening of a number of closed areas, "said the High Commissioner.

The Ministry of Labor argues that the "PIC" is not a device with "immediate effect", and estimates that its "full effects" should be "even more" visible in a year.

The remuneration of trainees in vocational training, which "had not been upgraded since 1988", underlined Ms. Seiler, will also be reviewed on 1 May. For 16-18 year olds, it will drop from 130 to 200 euros per month, for those aged 18-25, it will drop to 500 euros, and beyond 25 to 685 euros.