hiring help prolonged to 2024, publicizes the Ministry of Labor | EUROtoday

The monetary assist of 6,000 euros to help employers who recruit underneath apprenticeship contracts has been renewed in 2024, the Ministry of Labor introduced on Saturday December 30 in a press launch. “Year after year, the development of work-study programs has proven itself, legitimizing more than ever the objective of one million apprentices per year”declared the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, quoted within the press launch.

This bonus considerations the hiring of an apprentice of any age or an worker underneath professionalization contract underneath 30 years previous. It is granted unconditionally to firms with fewer than 250 workers. Larger firms are additionally eligible however underneath circumstances, particularly reaching a threshold of work-study contracts or contracts selling skilled integration of their workforce, by the top of December 2025.

More than one million apprentices on the finish of October

According to figures from the Ministry of Employment, France had a complete of 1,017,500 apprentices in secondary and better training on the finish of October 2023, a rise of 6.2% in comparison with the top of October 2022. At the top of October 2023, 780,200 apprenticeship contracts had began for the reason that begin of the 12 months, a rise of two.8% year-on-year. The authorities has set a goal of 1 million contracts signed in 2027.

The development in apprenticeships could be defined each by the 2018 reform, which notably liberalized the opening of coaching facilities and prolonged apprenticeships to 26-29 12 months olds, in addition to by hiring bonuses. . In mid-December, Parliament definitively adopted a textual content supposed to advertise a “Erasmus of learning” by facilitating the worldwide mobility of work-study college students.