Vocational training players

The vocational training sector is a highly regulated and complex market in France, sometimes subject to many legal bodies depending on the players involved (training and education law, labour law, intellectual property law, tax law, company and associations law, consumption law, public order law and state aid regimes etc.)

Your strategic partner

We assist joint and public funders, joint bodies, certification (private or industry) and training organisations, apprentice training centres (if applicable company apprentice training centres) as well as public and private educational establishments involved in initial training.

We also help employers to understand and implement training schemes and their financing, and roll out their training policy to their employees.

Our experience among training players and our capacity of attorney allows us to offer an advisory service and assistance in pre-contentious and contentious situations.

Positive law

Our team constantly take part in developing positive law.

Our lawyers notably helped in the framework of successive training reforms:

Writing amendment drafts and bills (in the so-called “Labour law” dated of 8 August 2016 to allow apprentice training centres to teach remotely; in the so-called “Avenir law” of 5 September 2018 to allow the financing of training schemes in the form of a subscription to a digital platform, on the raising of the threshold of the headcount of a company for accessing mutuals funds according to the plan; etc.).

Writing draft decrees (on distance training monitoring conditions).

Our areas of expertise

With training service providers

Creating training organisations and apprentice training centres (choice of legal form, liability for VAT, preparation of the file to submit to the administration
Legal assistance on mergers and inclusions of training) organisations/apprentice training centres created in the form of an association
Consortiums, partnerships and educational subcontracting
Access to public and mutualised financing and state aid
Professional certifications (registration/renewal requests with RNCP and RS)
Apprenticeship tax (authorisation applications for bodies authorised to collect balances, account for expenses)
Audits of training provider activities (Local labour authority) or relating to the payment of training taxes by companies (French treasury)

With professional sectors

Drafting/negotiating collective branch/sector agreements, OPCA constitutive agreements and related articles of association
Supporting their professional certification mission: CQP/CQPI

With companies

Rolling out the company training policy (identifying systems to access training and associated financing, if applicable; drafting the repayment clause for employee training costs)
Developing the skill development plan
Procedure to carry out performance reviews
Managing pre-litigation and litigation relating to the training obligation, implementing a repayment clause for employee training costs
Consulting employee representative bodies regarding vocational training (helping to develop disclosure/consultation documents, disclosure/consultation terms and conditions)
Social status of in-house trainers
Support in creating universities/company apprentice training centres
Support for in-house training departments

With funders

Support in applying the regulations applicable to how they function and their activities of general interest
Offering services intended for their member companies
Implementing public tenders
Terms and conditions and rules for paying for training and financing terms and conditions in the framework of legal funds (CUFPA, contractual, European (FSE…)
“360°” support in their restructuring operations (notably in the context of the Avenir professional law)

Do you need legal assistance?

Contact our teams via our contact form, one of our lawyers will contact you to set a meeting and deal with your problem as soon as possible.

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