The government is extending student aid to 2023, but reducing the take-off

After two years of huge investments, the government has no intention of abandoning apprenticeships. During a visit to Maleville facilities, the art carpentry training students studying in Paris, Olivier Dussopt and Carole Granjean presented details of the aid system to hire apprentices in 2023.

from 1^eh In January, there will no longer be two bonuses (€5,000 for minors and €8,000 for adults), but only one, regardless of the young person’s age, €6,000. This amount will be paid to all companies, regardless of their size, for contracts concluded with a work-study student in the first year of performance. “This support will help make France a true nation of learning at the service of full employment. “, the two ministers of labor and vocational education were happy.

The ambition of this development, which may seem minimal, is manifold. The challenge is to focus state efforts more strongly on young people in CAP or vocational high school, while reducing the unintended impact on the better-qualified population, whose employment benefits of apprenticeships are clearly less obvious.

In the spring, the Control Chamber criticized the government’s action on this point in a stained glass report. Whether on the subject of the 2018 reform or the bailout from the summer of 2020, finance majors lamented that the stratospheric sums invested by the state are of little benefit to young people who have the most trouble getting into work. higher education students who do not suffer from difficulties entering the labor market. “We went from 137,000 to 238,000 undergraduate and infra-bac level apprenticeships between 2017 and 2021. And this bonus is meant to further encourage companies to target these audiences.”-said Carol Granjian.

It is a very beautiful investment in our youth that is worth it

Elizabeth Bourne

The other task of the executive was to reduce the financial support of the state system, but in a very measured proportion. Indeed, the premiums paid to companies in 2021 amounted to no less than €4.4 billion, out of a total of €12 billion invested in apprenticeships. The one-time aid of 6,000 euros should make it possible to create about 1.5 billion in savings and maintain the state obligation of more than 10 billion. “ In terms of budget sustainability, we had to review the levels determined during the Covid crisis, while maintaining a huge level of investment. », summed up Olivier Dussopt. So reduce the sail area during storage “ aid that remains a stimulus for business”.

Recruiting more than 733,000 young people in 2021, compared to about 300,000 in 2018, the Ministry of Labor does not intend to jeopardize or hinder the good dynamics of education. This mechanism, which combines theory and practice in business, and which is breaking records after 2018, is a springboard for employment for hundreds of thousands of young people every year. “ It’s a huge lever for professional integration. And it has proven itself, even in the conditions of the crisis, with the unemployment rate of 18-25-year-olds, which has decreased very sharply.Carol Granjian recalled.

In addition, it accounted for almost a fifth of net job creation this year, according to INSEE. Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne has set two ministers to target one million apprentices in one full year after the five-year deadline ends. In 2022, the milestone of 800,000 signed contracts should be crossed, according to the government’s estimate. And there is no doubt that the extension of the hiring bonus for the next few years, even if slightly reduced, will make it possible to reach the milestone of one million beneficiaries in 2027.

Working time. practitioners attack hospitals

By Marie-Cécile Reno

Unions of medical and pharmacy practitioners sued thirty university hospital centers (CHUs) demanding their working hours. While the legal maximum is 48 hours a week, 70% of practitioners say they exceed this ceiling and 50% work more than 58 hours, according to a trade union survey. Isni, Isnar-IMG (medicine) and FNSIP-BM (pharmacy) thus intend to comply with the decision of the State Council. On June 22, the High Administrative Court obliged state hospitals to re-equip a “A reliable, objective and accessible tool for counting” working hours of their doctors and practitioners. condemning “The Cynicism of the Situation” which serves “compensate for the lack of resources of the state hospital” Unions say that these hours have serious consequences for the health of young people “75% of medical students have anxiety symptoms, 67% have burnout symptoms, 39% have depressive symptoms, and 19% have suicidal thoughts.”