Lower hiring bonuses, higher labor costs… companies are threatening to abandon apprenticeships

by time news

2024-10-22 09:21:00

DESCRIBED – State support made it possible to change the image and develop this course. The government has just announced that it will reduce its aid by several billion euros in 2025.

« It’s nice, in this country, that the systems that work are being questioned »the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, recently got carried away. The target of the boss of bosses’ wrath? The government’s announcement of massive budget cuts to apprenticeship support policy. This has allowed the number of young people in the sector to increase, from 320,000 in 2018 to 850,000 in 2023. Better yet, no one sees it as a secondary route or reserved for professional careers. But, faced with the deteriorated situation of public finances, the new government has envisaged, in the financial bill (PLF), a series of measures intended to slow down the dynamics.

It is preparing to lower the bonus for hiring a work-study worker – currently set at 6,000 euros – and to reduce employee contribution exemptions. This will allow the state to recover about 2 billion…

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