Following the coronavirus health crisis, many companies find themselves in great financial difficulty, and fear, without State aid, of not being able to continue to employ apprentices. Alain Griset, president of the Union of local businesses, asks the government to take charge of their remuneration. 

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The threat hangs over learning. While thousands of businesses are in very bad shape following the coronavirus health crisis, many fear that they will not be able to continue to employ or recruit apprentices without State aid at the next school year. "It is urgent that the government take measures," argues Alain Griset, president of U2P (Union of local businesses), at the microphone of Europe 1.

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"Our companies are very fragile. Today, their concern is to maintain themselves and continue to train, in order to be able to have competent employees tomorrow," he explains. For that, he says, the state will have to get involved. He asked the government to take charge of apprentices' wages, thanks to a system "like that of short-time working", in order to lighten the salary burden of companies without forcing them to separate from young workers in training. 

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Medef, for its part, put forward the idea of ​​a single state aid of up to 10,000 euros per recruitment. "It is a provision like any other. The important thing is that at the end of the day, the remuneration is borne by the State, so that young people can still find apprenticeships," he said. .

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Guest of Europe 1 Friday morning, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, said that the government would look at "all these proposals", and that measures to support learning will be proposed on June 10 , without however disclosing its content. "We want learning to remain a solution for hundreds of thousands of young people," he said.