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Young alternately: bonus-malus and restoration of "zero charge" to study

The figaro.fr Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Sarkozy presents his plan

Companies will have 4% Young alternately instead of 3% on pain of penalty.
This will be modulated between 0.05 and 0.2 percentage points of payroll.
A bonus will be given to good students, as well as relief for businesses with fewer than 250 employees.

Nicolas Sarkozy now devotes a shift in employment, Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), where he will discuss in particular the development of training (apprenticeships, professional training contracts). He set a goal of reaching 800,000 young alternately by 2015, against 600,000 today. To achieve this, the government intends to further induce big business to use these courses more widely used by SMEs, through a system of bonus and penalty tax on learning.
Today, the apprenticeship tax represents 0.5% of payroll. It is increased by 0.1 points for firms with more than 250 employees who do not reach the threshold of 3% of the alternates. Which penalizes businesses consistently, whether relatives or not that threshold. With the new schedule, it will reach 4% of employees in alternation, as proposed Minister for Vocational Training, Nadine Morano (Les Echos, 14 January).

400 euros per child "in addition"

But the penalty will be modulated. Between 3% and 4% of workforce in alternation, it will be 0.05 points. Between 1% and 3%, it will be 0.1 point, as today. Below 1% of employees in alternation, however, the penalty will double to 0.2 point. Conversely, over 4% of apprenticeship or have a professional contract, a bonus representing 400 euros per child, alternating this "extra" in the business is expected within 6% of workforce .
For businesses with fewer than 250 employees , which are not affected by the surcharge, the government will restore the exemption from the additional recruitment of young people on sandwich which was introduced as part of stimulus plan with a difference: the exemption will cover six months instead of twelve. This aid had been suspended on 31 December, and industry called for its reinstatement. The reform is intended to be globally at no cost, but it should not bring money to the state.

The government also plans to raise 500 million euros through the large loan to upgrade training facilities and creation of places of accommodation. It also intends to relax the conditions of service for teacher learning. The number of contracts entered into alternating stabilized in 2010, thanks to emergency measures, but remains significantly lower than in 2008, before the crisis.