PARIS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Friday the “identical” extension of aid to companies for hiring apprentices.
“We absolutely want to continue to encourage companies to hire apprentices and that is why I can announce to you this morning that we are going to extend the apprenticeship aid in the same way”, she declared to the press on the sidelines of a trip dedicated to learning in a holiday center in Seine-et-Marne.
Aid for hiring an apprentice amounts to “5,000 euros for a minor apprentice, 8,000 euros for an adult”, recalled the Prime Minister.
Their amount had been raised to this level in June 2020, in an economic context disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Apprenticeship is a real success of the previous five-year term. (…) In 2017, there were less than 300,000 apprentices and in 2021 it is 730,000 apprentices. Our goal is one million apprentices” , she added.
In a report published Thursday, the Court of Auditors estimated that the apprenticeship reform, one of the markers of Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, had little benefit for young people in fragile situations or even for companies encountering problems of recruitment.
(Written by Myriam Rivet, edited by Sophie Louet)
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