France: social partners reach last minute agreement on the reform of vocational training

Simpler funding procedures for corporate training, new individual training account… the draft agreement reached by the social partners at 4 am on Saturday morning (December 14)  amends the vocational training system which, according to the government, should help achieve its primary goal: increase jobseekers’ access to training as well as unskilled workers – the system’s pariahs.  The text is open for signature.  The CGPME and CGT announced that they wouldn’t sign it.  (Ref.  130801)
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Under the draft, funding for jobseekers’ training will increase, from €600 million currently up to €900 in 2015. the different existing statutory obligations (0.55 percent of the payroll in businesses with 10 workers or less, 1.05 percent in those with 10-19 workers and 1.6 percent in those with 20 workers or more) will be replaced by a “single and mandatory contribution” amounting to 1 percent of the payroll in businesses with 10 workers or more and to 0.55 percent in those with 10 workers or

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