Implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, this aid was massively used by companies, boosting the number of work-study students in France and democratizing this method of training allowing students to be remunerated.
A unified and simplified learning aid
Until now, this aid for hiring a work-study student was 5,000 euros for a minor student and 8,000 for an adult, which makes the cost of the first year almost zero for the employer. In 2023, the premium for hiring apprentices will now be set for all applicants at 6,000 euros, for a minor as for an adult under 30, announced the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt this Thursday, December 1.
In 2023, it will be paid to all companies for contracts concluded from January 1 to December 31, for the first year of execution of the contract.
Thanks to these bonuses, apprenticeship has grown considerably, with 718,000 contracts signed in 2021, an increase of 37%, after already 42% in 2020. The government is counting on more than 800,000 apprenticeship contracts signed in 2022 and set a target of one million in 2027.
Objective: 1 million work-study contracts per year in 2027
Carole Grandjean, Minister Delegate in charge of Vocational Education and Training, also welcomed this measure. “Through this decision, the government is maintaining a high level of investment in favor of apprenticeship, a path to success and sustainable professional integration for our young people which has proven its worth over the last five years: 70% of young people being in employment one year after graduation. This support will make it possible to make France a real nation of learning at the service of full employment and to reach, by the end of the five-year term, one million new apprentices per year, ”she estimates.
The over 30s who could retrain through work-study training are now the big losers of this aid reform while the youngest are favored. By increasing aid for work-study minors, the new system aims to promote the hiring of apprentices at the baccalaureate level or lower, underlined the Ministry of Labor.