Background information

Co-constructed with trade unions and employers' organisations, the Collective Transitions scheme - also known as Transco - aims to help employers and employees to cope with changes that may affect their company's model and activity. It is aimed at companies with a development perspective and at companies undergoing change (changes in work organisation, technological transition, environmental transition, etc.). It promotes the mobility of employees in vulnerable professions.

Content of measure

Transitions Collectives aims to promote the professional mobility of employees, particularly between sectors, and to encourage retraining on a regional scale. It enables employees whose jobs are in jeopardy to retrain in a secure environment for a promising job in their local area. The Collective Transitions scheme is divided into two parts:

• Collective Transitions - Transco is based on the legal support of the Professional Transitions Project (PTP). The remuneration of the employee who benefits from it is maintained, within the limit of 2 times the minimum wage (90% above). In addition, this part of the scheme offers the employee the possibility of returning to his or her company at the end of the training.
• Transco - Mobility leave is based on mobility leave, after the employer has concluded a collective bargaining agreement (RCC) or a job and career management agreement (GEPP). In this case, the employee's remuneration is also maintained, with no ceiling. These two components of the Collective Transitions scheme enable employees to undergo retraining for up to 24 months (or 2,400 hours).

For these two components, the remuneration and training costs are covered by the State, either totally or partially, depending on the size of the company. In the case of Transco - Congé de mobilité, the employer pays at least 65% of the remuneration and the State finances the remainder, which allows a level of remuneration almost equivalent to the net salary to be maintained.

Use of measure

By the end of the summer of 2021, only 64 companies had opened a space on the Transitions pro site (see source, Le Monde 2022).

During an initial assessment in the autumn of 2021, the Ministry of Labour admitted that the result had not lived up to expectations, announcing a forthcoming reform. This was announced on 7 February 2022. The new version of Transco, which was drawn up after consultation with the social partners, is intended to be more attractive to employers in small businesses.

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Employees in standard employment Workers in non-standard forms of employment	Applies to all businesses	Does not apply to citizens

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
National government Social partners jointly	Companies National funds

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative	Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative
Form	Direct consultation outside a formal body	Direct consultation outside a formal body

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

• Social partners jointly
• Main level of involvement: Peak or cross-sectoral level

Involvement

The scheme has been elaborated by the social partners jointly and the government in the framework of the "Plan de relance" the relaunch the economy after the COVID-19 crisis.

Views and reactions

As social partners were at the initiative of the design of this measure, they support it.

Sources

• 07 February 2022: Instruction N° DGEFP/2022/35 du 7 février 2022 relative au déploiement du dispositif «Transitions collectives » prévu par France relance (www.legifrance.gouv.fr)
• 25 February 2022: Le Monde (2022), « Transitions collectives » : le ministère du travail revoit sa copie (www.lemonde.fr)
• 09 May 2022: Ministère de l'Economie, Transitions Collectives (Transco) (www.economie.gouv.fr)
• 07 February 2023: Instruction N° DGEFP/2022/35 du 7 février 2022 relative au déploiement du dispositif «Transitions collectives » prévu par France relance (www.legifrance.gouv.fr)