#2026-441France Makes Experimental Professionalization Contracts Permanent
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The law makes a previously experimental form of France’s professionalization contract permanent. These contracts can now be used not only to obtain a full professional qualification, but also to complete one or more certified skill blocks, under rules to be set by decree. Employers, training providers, and workers using work-study or continuing training routes are affected. The practical effect is more flexibility: people can train for targeted certified skills instead of always pursuing a full qualification.
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Key Changes
- Makes the experimental professionalization contract permanent in the Labour Code
- Allows these contracts to cover one or more certified skill blocks, not only full professional qualifications
- Leaves implementation details for skill-block training to a future decree
Obligations
What this law requires
Employers using a contrat de professionnalisation for certified skill blocks must ensure the contract concerns one or more blocs de compétences of a professional certification mentioned in Article L. 6113-1 of the Labour Code, under modalities to be defined by decree.
Training providers involved in a contrat de professionnalisation aimed at certified skill blocks must align the training pathway with one or more certified skill blocks of a professional certification, according to modalities to be defined by decree.