Question 11737 — vocational training and apprenticeship

Summary

Mr. Pierre Pribetich alerts the Minister of Labor and Solidarity to the critical situation of the National Agency for Adult Vocational Training (AFPA), whose sustainability is today threatened by questionable budgetary and strategic choices. AFPA, the leading public qualification training organization, plays a key role in professional integration and social emancipation, particularly for the most precarious groups: job seekers, young people in pre-qualification and workers in retraining. However, the figures are alarming: a drop from 12,000 to less than 5,000 employees by 2026 and a cumulative deficit of 1.2 billion euros in six and a half years. The centers of Quetigny and Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur, the largest centers in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, saw their training hours drop by almost 40%, illustrating a generalized decline. The results of However, the AFPA remains exemplary: 70% return to employment after training, compared to much lower performance for other systems. Despite this, the agency is undergoing a logic of brutal austerity: non-replacement of departures, sale of real estate, reduction in the training offer (from 226 to around a hundred professions) and increased dependence on the CPF, which favors private organizations which are often less efficient. There The situation is all the more grotesque since the AFPA, despite its proven social usefulness, is today weakened by calls for tenders to the lowest bidder and unfair competition. Investments in technical platforms are threatened and hundreds of millions of euros risk being lost. Faced with this emergency, the MP asks the Minister to present the immediate measures that the Government intends to take to save the AFPA from bankruptcy. He asks if and how the State intends to preserve the territorial network of the AFPA, particularly in rural areas and working-class neighborhoods, where it is often the only public training operator; whether the system of financing vocational training will be reviewed in order to put an end to unfair competition and to refocus public funds on actors like the AFPA, whose social and economical is demonstrated, or if it pursues a dismantling objective. The MP recalls that professional training cannot be left to market mechanisms alone. He wants to know his position on the subject.

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