Jean Castex sets the objective of training "1.4 million job seekers in 2022"

Olivier Samain, edited by Gauthier Delomez with AFP 6:46 p.m., September 27, 2021

An ambitious Jean Castex on the employment front.

The Prime Minister wants to train "1.4 million job seekers in 2022", as he said in an interview published Monday in

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It also announces the extension, "over the whole of 2022", of aid for the recruitment of work-study trainees for long-term job seekers.

Referring to the recruitment difficulties which tend to "become more general", the Prime Minister, who must present the terms of the new "skills investment plan", pleads that it is necessary to "work at the same time on the training" of employees and the 5.927 million category A, B or C job seekers, according to the latest available data.

Privileged in-company training

Jean Castex indicates that for vocational training, the government intends to "mobilize an additional 1.4 billion euros over 2021 and 2022, including 900 million from this year", specifying that it is a question of redeploying emergency funds which had been "budgeted for the management of the crisis". SMEs with 51 to 300 employees "will benefit from 600 million to train their employees", adds the Prime Minister.

"For the unemployed, we take the position of giving maximum priority to in-company training, which is directly operational," continues Jean Castex.

He indicates that the State will sign "new agreements with the regions and with Pôle Emploi, to the tune of 560 million and open new training courses to all job seekers regardless of their level of qualification. Objective: to train 1.4 million job seekers in 2022 ".

Aid for the hiring of work-study students "works very well for young people"

For long-term job seekers, who now account for more than one in two registered at Pôle Emploi (50.3%), Jean Castex indicates that he wants to "make the benefit of professionalization contracts for adults more attractive".

And this "by extending assistance for the hiring of work-study students over the whole of 2022, which works very well for young people".

This aid of 8,000 euros for a major will thus be applicable to professionalization contracts for long-term job seekers.

For young people (5,000 euros for a minor, 8,000 euros for an adult), it has been extended several times, the last time in early September until June 30, 2022.