Following in the footsteps of cleaning firm Derichebourg, Monoprix (part of the Casino group) has signed a partnership with Korian and joined its 'Passerelles' crossover programme. The agreement will see some 60 members of Monoprix’s checkout staff training, from this year, in the profession of care assistant with a view to ultimately joining Korian, which operates retirement homes in France. The effort will receive funding from the French state, which will cover part of the wage and training costs, via its 'Transitions Collectives' (collective transitions) scheme. Elisabeth Borne, France’s employment minister, who attended the launch event on 19 May in Paris, wants to make the government’s scheme, which will receive €500 million as part of the recovery plan, permanent.
200 to be hired by Korian in 2021. Korian, which provides services for the elderly and is France’s leader in the sector, finds itself needing more and more staff amid the ageing of the population. The company plans to hire 200 people from 2021 – from an overall total of 2,500 recruits – following a retraining programme, before increasing the number hired via this channel to 500 per year. Korian launched a call for tenders in December 2020 aimed at companies open to letting their staff retrain.
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