The French will not have to put their hands in their pockets from 2024. The government will not introduce financial participation next year for employees when they use their personal training account (CPF), but this “track” remains study for a later date, indicated Thursday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt on South Radio.
The introduction of a “moderatory ticket” for the use of the CPF is “an avenue under study”: it does not appear in the draft state budget for 2024, but “we continue to (it) work,” said the minister. Last May, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire raised the possibility of introducing a remainder charge of around 30% for the CPF “except when the employer pays or you are in a difficult situation, for example example if you are unemployed”.
Participation based on “the amount of the training”
Olivier Dussopt qualified these comments: “30% is not the amount that is planned, it has not been fixed”, adding that “it could be less”. “It depends on the amount of training,” detailed the Minister of Labor, adding that the remainder could be imposed “when the chosen training has no link with the job one holds” or “not necessarily link with a professional project.
According to the minister, public spending linked to the CPF will be slightly reduced in 2023, dropping to 4 billion euros, compared to 4.2 billion in 2022, thanks to “measures to hunt down fraudsters”, better security of the connection accounts, as well as the elimination of “training which was not qualifying, not serious”.