After all-out liberalisation, now is the time to refocus. For several months, the government has announced its intention to regulate the personal training account (CPF), a system deeply modified under Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term to facilitate access. He finally took action by tabling, on Saturday December 10, an amendment to the finance bill for 2023, very slightly rewritten the next day: the text « proposes to establish a participation of the holderregardless of the amount of rights available on his account”. In other words, no more training provided free of charge through this mechanism: employees will also have to put their hands in their pockets. By leaving a remainder to be borne by the persons concerned, this measure is presented as a co-payment, one of the purposes of which is to muzzle the expense linked to the CPF.
The amendment defended by the executive indicates that the contribution claimed from the worker may be proportional “at the cost of the training, within the limit of a ceiling or fixed at a lump sum”. An important point to underline: job seekers will not have to pay. Ditto for individuals who mobilize their CPF as part of a project “coconstructed with their employer” and with funding provided by the latter (“subscriptions”).
For Carole Grandjean, the minister delegate in charge of vocational education and training, such an approach aims “to continue to improve the efficiency of the CPF, in addition to the many measures already taken and which are having an impact” (fight against fraud and abusive canvassing, improvement of the quality of the offer through a reinforced selection of training organisations).
“The opposite of Macron’s political project”
Created in 2014, the CPF was reformed in November 2019 by Muriel Pénicaud, the Minister of Labor at the time. A system of credit in euros – and no longer in hours – has emerged with an online platform opening the door to a wide range of titles, diplomas and certifications. The result: a considerable success, which resulted in “more than five million training registrations” over the past three years, according to the executive.
This boom has had a cost – some 6.7 billion euros -, thus contributing to the deficit of France Skills, the steering body of the sector, even if the “hole” results largely from expenses attributable to learning . The craze for the CPF has also been accompanied by its share of abuse: bogus training, intrusive solicitations of companies that have multiplied phone calls and text messages, scams… To such an extent that the training catalog has been cleaned up to focus on those that can quickly lead to a job.
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