The target set by Nicolas Sarkozy to double the number of young alternating is very ambitious. Too much It spend 600,000 contracts 1.2 million each year. We understand that the head of State has not set deadline, unlike may 2010, where he had spoken to reach 800,000 contract in 2015.
With the crisis, the Government priority was especially to avoid learning and the professionalization of follow the same slope as employment. With a real success: end of 2008, the number of young people in alternance training was estimated at 1,415,000. End of 2009, he tutoyait 600,000; and 2010 looks at the same level. Emergency financial measures decided upon at the height of the crisis have played a role of damper. But they end on 31 December.

The year 2011 will be delicate. MP Gérard Cherpion (UMP), rapporteur of the reform of vocational training, warns: "the development of the alternation is a very good track if it provides the means." Clearly, the State must stop deplete its funds as it will do in 2011 in appropriating the joint fund for securing routes EUR 300 million. "The appointment of a Minister responsible for explicitly learning (Nadine Morano, Editor's note) and the objective of a doubling of the alternation are two strong messages." "But the most difficult problem will be that of financing," said Bernard Legendre, Director Deputy of the Assembly of Chambers of commerce (Acfci). "An apprenticeship is not necessarily more expensive than training by National Education, but they are not the same who pay", relays Alain Griset, President of the Permanent Assembly of Chambers of trades, thus Recalling the jurisdiction of the regions on the alternation. "You see what the State will put on the table." "In a budget reduction and reform of the territorial communities, regions are skeptical," it warns the Association of the regions of France.
The grand loan has provided 500 million euros of investment to finance some 50 projects of "modernization and extension of the apparatus for training" and 10,000 places of accommodation, housing is a major problem. What, however, fund the doubling of the numbers.
For two years, work on alternating stressed the need for an expansion to other audiences (public service, liberal professions, health and social) and the necessity of the administrative or cultural brakes. "Many companies do not go on alternating by ignorance or by fear, it is therefore necessary to secure development in relation to the young, and administrative complexity remains daunting", Judge Jean-Michel Pottier, President of the commission of CGPME training. "To be especially strengthening cooperation between major groups, which have facilities for these young people, and SMEs, which can make recruitment", believes his side Jean-François Pilliard, delegate general the UIMM (metallurgy). The spectre of employers would meet the 3 quota of apprentices for the undertakings with more than 250 employees. Sought, the Medef reserves its analysis to the social partners.
The geographic expansion is another issue. To develop the alternation in rural areas, chambers of trades would experiment with training in the workplace of the apprentice. Finally, some companies want to break the myth of employment guaranteed for the apprentice. At EDF, where a "alternating" three is employed in the group, a social agreement has introduced a device of accompaniment for those who can be hired.