The insurance sector that employs some 150,000 intends to address the transformation environment that is altering its business and its occupational professions by strengthening anticipatory management of jobs, skills, and lifelong occupational training. The French Insurance Federation (FFA) together with four trade unions, CFDT, CFE-CGC, UNSA and CFTC, signed a new agreement on these topics on 15 September, which was made public on 17 November. "The agreement highlights the role of the sector and the social partners in identifying occupational change, providing information, career guidance and defining policies for employment inclusion and skills development," the signatories emphasized.
The sector’s role in terms of anticipation is ensured by strengthening its ability to undertake diagnostics and forecasting via the Observatoire de l’évolution des métiers de l’assurance (OEMA-Observatory for changing Insurance Sector occupations), which has been in existence since 1996, and which must always seek to better anticipate skills needs, so as to adapt training and certification provision. Going forward the OEMA should increasingly interact with other sectors (for instance insurance
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