Question 15794 — vocational training and apprenticeship

Summary

Mr. Jérôme End alerts the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the consequences of reducing the financing of skills assessments through the personal training account. The finance law for 2026 introduced changes to the personal training account (CPF). Concerning skills assessments, all people can continue to mobilize their rights to CPF, but the rules have been modified: from now on, they can use a maximum of 1,600 euros of their CPF rights to follow “skills assessment” training and they must not have benefited from funding for a skills assessment during the five years preceding their request (whether public funding by the CPF, the State, a region, France Travail, or even private financing by an Opco, a fund training insurance). These new provisions weaken an essential tool for securing career paths. The skills assessment constitutes a major lever for orientation, retraining and maintaining employment. It allows active people, particularly the most vulnerable (women, seniors, people with disabilities or in professional transition) to identify their abilities, to build a project development and prevent business interruptions. Reducing its financing by the CPF means making it more difficult to access for a large proportion of employees and job seekers, particularly in areas where few alternatives exist. This also causes significant financial difficulties, even cessations of activity for hundreds of VSEs which offer skills assessments, for the benefit of structures larger in size. This situation is regrettable both for local businesses and for the most modest employees who want to continue their professional development in accordance with their deep aspirations and their potential, whether for them it is a question of defining a new project or of gaining efficiency and well-being in their current position. Already, a decree of April 29, 2024 had set new obligations for the use of the CPF and posed obstacles to access to training, with the establishment of a compulsory flat-rate contribution of 100 euros, revalued each year following inflation. As of January 1, 2026, its amount was set at 103.20 euros and a decree of March 30, 2026 further increased its amount to 150 euros for any request to subscribe to a training action eligible for the CPF occurring from April 2, 2026. In a context of profound changes in the labor market, it would seem more coherent to encourage those who want to develop their skills and to leave employees free to use their CPF rights, acquired through years of work, as they see fit, rather than putting brakes on their development by setting specific ceilings for support according to training or by imposing dissuasive financial contributions. He him asks what measures it intends to take to assess the consequences of the restrictive measures recently taken for the use of the CPF and to review the provisions which hinder employees' access to the training they want and put many companies in difficulty.

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