CPF: unions and training organizations oppose government announcements

The Government’s announcement of the creation of a flat-rate contribution for employees who use their personal training account (CPF) does not yet mean that a decision has been made in this regard, a CFDT executive estimated on Monday, February 19.

“At the moment, no decision has been made on the remaining responsibility. There is an intention from the Ministry of Economy, it is not the first time,” Yvan Ricordeau, head of professional training at the CFDT, assured AFP.

“For this to be translated [dans les faits]”There will have to be a negotiation with the social partners led by the Ministry of Labor, about which at the moment there is no point on the agenda,” he added.

“Employees will continue to use their CPF in the coming months as they do today,” according to the union leader.

“Simply scandalous”

In the Ministry of Labor it is indicated that the modalities have not been completely arbitrated for the moment and that Minister Catherine Vautrin wishes to discuss this issue with the social partners.

Yvan Ricordeau recalls that “the legislator made sure to leave employees free to use their CPF for whatever they saw fit” and that “there, the Minister of Economy wants to twist the neck of the original promise of the CPF.” He asks that the rest be reserved for training that has no professional purposes.

“What risks happening is an incredible injustice, is that the most vulnerable, those who have difficulties, will not be able to go to training,” he stressed, adding that the business contribution to training had been reduced from 1, 6% to 1% of payroll.

“Calendar brutality”

The training organizations, through their federation, the Competition Actors, also denounced “the brutality of the calendar, the verticality of the method and the inconsistencies of the government.”

This federation also points out that since last month the government authorized the financing of the A2 motorcycle permit by the CPF, for a cost “estimated at 250 million euros in 2024 if the trend observed in January is confirmed”, while the government seeks to save 200 million in the CPF with the rest, of a total cost of 2,000 million.