700,000 young people are entering the job market in an economy devastated by two and a half months of confinement due to the coronavirus crisis. Part of the government therefore met on Thursday at the Elysee Palace with the social partners and in the presence of Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe to find solutions. The companies which will recruit an apprentice from July 1st to February 28th, 2021 will benefit from an extended aid to the hiring of 8,000 euros for adults and 5,000 euros for minors, announced the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud Thursday after this meeting.
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While this aid is now reserved for companies with less than 250 employees and for diplomas at the level lower than or equal to the bac, the system will be extended up to the license level and to all companies, which will represent "a additional cost greater than one billion euros ", according to the entourage of the minister. The idea is to encourage young people to choose the path of learning.
Unemployment insurance: decisions "by summer"
In addition, young people can continue their training even if they do not have a contract with a company. Currently, they can only stay for three months, then they have to leave school. There, they can stay six months even if they don't have companies to welcome them. The government will also finance the purchase of computers to facilitate the learning of these young people.
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Regarding unemployment insurance, discussions will open "in the coming weeks" with trade unions and employers with a view to reaching decisions "by the summer," also said Muriel Pénicaud. These discussions will make it possible to agree on "the criteria or the measures to be adapted to take account of the context" of the crisis, as well as on the date of application, the Ministry of Labor was told. While all trade unions are demanding the cancellation of this reform, the second part of which has been postponed until September 1 due to the crisis, "things are very, very open on unemployment insurance," the ministry said. .