The bonuses of 5,000 euros for minors and 8,000 euros for adults will both be reduced to 6,000 euros.
After two years of colossal investment, the government does not intend to abandon apprenticeship. During a trip to the Maleville establishments, an art carpentry which trains work-study students in Paris, Olivier Dussopt and Carole Grandjean gave the details of the aid system for hiring apprentices in 2023.
From 1er January, there will no longer be two bonuses (5,000 euros for minors and 8,000 euros for adults) but only one, regardless of the age of the young person, of 6,000 euros. This sum will be paid to all companies – regardless of their size – for contracts concluded with a work-study student in the first year of execution. “This support will help make France a true nation of learning at the service of full employment. “, rejoiced the two ministers, respectively of Labor and Vocational Training.
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The ambition of this development, which may seem minimal, is multiple. It is a question of concentrating the efforts of the State more strongly on young people in CAP or vocational high school while reducing the windfall effects on the more qualified public and whose benefits of apprenticeship on employment are clearly less obvious.
In the spring, the Court of Auditors criticized the government’s action on this point in a vitriolic report. Whether on the subject of the 2018 reform or the aid allocated since the summer of 2020, the financial magistrates deplored that the stratospheric sums invested by the State were of little benefit to young people having the most difficulty in entering employment. , but too much for students in higher education who do not suffer from difficult access to the labor market. “We went between 2017 and 2021 from 137,000 to 238,000 baccalaureate and infrabac level apprentices. And this bonus is intended to further encourage companies to target these audiences.”said Carole Grandjean.
It is a very beautiful investment in our youth which is worth
Elisabeth Borne
The other issue for the executive was to reduce, but in a very measured proportion, the financial support of the state system. Indeed, the premiums paid to companies in 2021 represented no less than 4.4 billion euros out of the 12 billion euros invested in total in apprenticeships. The single aid of 6,000 euros should make it possible to generate around 1.5 billion in savings and maintain a State commitment of more than 10 billion. “ In terms of budgetary sustainability, we had to review the levels decided during the Covid crisis, while maintaining a massive level of investment. », summarized Olivier Dussopt. So reduce the sail area while keeping “ aid that remains an incentive for businesses”.
By involving more than 733,000 young people in 2021 compared to some 300,000 in 2018, the Ministry of Labor does not intend to jeopardize or hamper the good dynamics on learning. This mechanism, which combines theory and practice in business – and which has broken records after records since 2018 – is a springboard to employment for hundreds of thousands of young people each year. “ It is a tremendous lever for professional integration. And it has proven itself, even in times of crisis, with an unemployment rate for 18-25 year olds which has fallen very sharply”recalled Carole Grandjean.
In addition, this year it participated in almost a fifth of net job creation, according to INSEE. The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, has set the two ministers to reach one million apprentices in a full year at the end of the five-year term. In 2022, the bar of 800,000 signed contracts should be crossed, according to the government’s score. And there is no doubt that the renewal of the hiring bonus for the next few years, even a little reduced, will make it possible to reach the bar of one million beneficiaries in 2027.
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Working time: interns attack hospitals
By Marie-Cécile Renault
Unions of interns in medicine and pharmacy have sued the thirty university hospital centers (CHU) to enforce their working hours. While the legal maximum is 48 hours per week, 70% of interns say they exceed this ceiling and 50% work more than 58 hours, according to a union survey. Isni, Isnar-IMG (medicine) and FNSIP-BM (pharmacy) thus intend to enforce a decision of the Council of State. On June 22, the high administrative court had ordered public hospitals to equip themselves with a “reliable, objective and accessible device for counting” the working time of their doctors and interns. denouncing “the cynicism of the situation”, which serves to “compensate for the lack of resources of the public hospital”, the unions say that these hours have serious consequences on the health of young people, with “75% of medical students who have anxious symptoms, 67% burnout symptoms, 39% depressive symptoms and 19% suicidal thoughts”.