On Friday 15 October, social partners in France reached a compromise on a national cross-industry framework agreement (ANI) that will reform vocational training. The compromise paves the way for negotiations to take place in seven areas – including work-study contracts, individual training accounts and funding – that will need to be finalised by the end of the first half of 2022 to ensure validity. Discussions will be based on 49 proposals submitted to France’s labour minister in July 2021.
A long-term task. The text of the national cross-industry framework agreement sets out seven topics on which social partners have agreed to open negotiations, with a view to drawing up a concrete text. Those topics are the use of work-study arrangements, the individual training account (CPF, which gives each employee credits they can use to select the training courses of their choice), skills development, the certification system, steering of vocational training, funding and professional...
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