Reform of the CPF: why the State wants to make the employee pay for part of the training

Barthélémy Philippe 11:42 a.m., December 20, 2022

You may have already opened it to pay for training in English or improve your computer skills... The personal training account (CPF) allows workers to accumulate training rights as soon as they enter the labor market. work and until retirement.

Previously, training rights were counted in hours.

Since the 2019 reform, training hours have been converted into euros and access to the CPF has been made possible via a smartphone application, "My training account", which has helped to popularize the system, in particular thanks to the display the amount available to each employee.

Implementation in the second quarter of 2023

In 2021, one million training courses were financed in this way.

Until now, the CPF was entirely financed by the State (thanks to a tax on companies) via France Competences, the national authority for financing and regulating vocational training and apprenticeship.

And therefore completely free for users.

But the government has just created a remaining charge for employees for all training and courses of validation of acquired experience (VAE).

The terms of employee participation, the lump sum or the contribution proportional to the cost of training within the limit of a ceiling, must soon be adopted by decree, before the implementation of the measure, planned for the second quarter of 2023. .

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"When you pay, you are more demanding"

With this remaining training charge, the government is pursuing two major objectives.

The first is purely financial: the executive wants to reduce the expenses of France Skills.

From 2020 to 2022, the state operator has accumulated a deficit of 11 billion euros.

The second objective of the reform is to strengthen the impact of training on careers.

"When you have a contribution to pay, you are more inclined to be demanding with training organizations. But beware, this contribution must be low, even symbolic for the lowest paid and least qualified employees. The use of the CPF today "Today, it's 80% workers and employees. It's an achievement that we must preserve," insists Renaissance MP Marc Ferracci, rapporteur for the unemployment insurance bill.

Important precision, the unemployed will be exempted from this remainder to charge training.

Just like the employees who engage in a training project co-constructed with their employer.