“There will be a reduction in the number of recruitments”, warns the National Association of Apprentices of France

The government indicated that aid for hiring an apprentice would be maintained in 2025, but that their amounts would be reduced.

“When we support companies financially, this implies an increase in the recruitment of the number of apprentices so it is certain that with this reduction, differentiated according to the size of the company, there will be a reduction in the number of recruitment”analysis Tuesday December 31 on franceinfo Aurélien Cadiou, president of the National Association of Apprentices of France (Anaf). According to him, this drop will not occur in the coming months “but certainly at the next school year, for contracts which will be signed from June-July and until September-October”.

On Monday, the Ministry of Labor indicated that aid for hiring an apprentice would be maintained for all companies in 2025, but that their amount would be lowered to 5,000 euros for SMEs and 2,000 euros for larger ones. businesses.

Aurélien Cadiou believes that the announcement made by the government is however “a fair rebalancing”. After the Covid crisis, measures “very strong in safeguarding the learning and career path of young people” were taken, he recalls. “There, we are returning to funding levels which are those which could have been before the Covid crisis.” Aurélien Cadiou talks about support “reasonable”and “strict minimum”emphasizing that “the apprentice still remained a burden for the company”.

The president of Anaf is to support businesses “who really need it financially”. He believes that the size of the company is an indicator of its financial health, so he wants “support small businesses” who are those who “recruit a lot of apprentices”.

“Until today, the government has done little work on the quality of learninghe adds. This is the challenge for us of the next government”. According to him, “apprenticeship does not work alone, it is not just financial aid, it is also support for young people and businesses to promote quality apprenticeship and quality training courses for young people”.

Aurélien Cadiou assures us, learning “really helps young people leaving secondary school who do not see themselves going to secondary school, who are sometimes invisible young people who are neither in employment nor in training”. “For them, he continues, learning is a real escape route.”