Presented as a priority for François Hollande’s 5-year term, the reform of vocational training should be complete by the end of this year, at the same time as an apprenticeship reform. While the stakes are vital – giving jobseekers and unskilled workers access to training and simplify a system whose complexity can only be matched by its obscurity –, the social partners theoretically only have a few weeks left to reach an agreement. But the disagreements between the employers’ organizations – Medef, the largest, and CGPME (small businesses) – on the issue of mandatory training contributions are slowing down the ongoing cross-industry negotiations. (Ref. 130735)
Stakes. “Make workers’ (employees and jobseekers) paths safer,” “turn training into a competitiveness investment in businesses,” “improve the readability of approaches and governance as a whole”: two major stakes are outlined behind these government objectives presiding over the reform: making it access for jobseekers and unskilled workers to access training, and simplify a system whose complexity can only be matched by its obscurity.
New right. About the first objective, figures speak alone:
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