The premium for hiring apprentices will be set at 6,000 euros in 2023 for both a minor and an adult under 30 years of age, Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt announced Thursday during a visit to the apprentices.
Currently, this aid for hiring interns -which also affects young people with a professionalization contract- is 5,000 euros for a minor, 8,000 for an adult, which means that the cost of the first year is almost zero for the entrepreneur. Decided during the Covid, this aid has been extended several times. In 2023, the aid will be paid to all companies, for contracts entered into from January 1 to December 31, for the first year of execution of the contract.
Accessible to young people from 16 to 29 years old, the apprenticeship is based on the principle of alternation between theoretical education and professional training with the employer with whom the apprentice has signed his contract. After 733,000 in 2021 (double that of 2019), the government has more than 800,000 apprenticeship contracts signed this year and sets a target of one million in 2027.
Extraordinary Effects on Higher Education
The increase in apprenticeships is explained both by the 2018 reform (which in particular liberalized the opening of training centers and expanded apprenticeships to young people between the ages of 26 and 29), and by hiring bonuses.
But this very strong increase in apprenticeships between 2018 and 2021 was increased to 75% by training at the bac +2 level or more, according to Dares, the statistics service of the Ministry of Labor. Indeed, higher education courses can benefit from this discount for hiring, which was not the case with the previous grants (“unique grants”).
The Court of Accounts had denounced in a recent report the unexpected effects on higher education, stressing that from the license, “the added value in professional integration is low.”
By increasing aid for study and work minors, the new system aims to promote the hiring of apprentices at the baccalaureate level or below, underlines the Ministry of Labor. “The goal is also to make the device more readable for young people and their employers,” according to the same source.
Source: BFM TV
