French Labour Code
In forceThe training centres providing the courses referred to in 4° of article L. 6313-1 have the following mission:
1° To support people, including those with disabilities, wishing to follow or change direction through apprenticeship, by developing their knowledge and skills and facilitating their integration into employment, in line with their career plan. For people with disabilities, the apprentice training centre helps them find an employer and facilitates their integration into both the apprentice training centre and the company, by offering the adaptations needed to ensure that their apprenticeship contract runs smoothly. To fulfil this role, the apprentice training centre appoints a person responsible for the integration of people with disabilities;
2° Supporting and accompanying apprenticeship applicants in their search for an employer;
3° Ensuring consistency between the training provided within the centre and that provided within the company, in particular by organising cooperation between instructors and apprenticeship masters;
4° Informing apprentices, from the start of their training, of their rights and duties as apprentices and as employees, and of the rules applicable in terms of health and safety in the workplace;
5° Enabling apprentices who have broken their contract to continue their training for six months, while helping them to find a new employer, in conjunction with the public employment service. Apprentices whose contracts have been terminated are affiliated to a social security scheme and may receive remuneration in accordance with the provisions of articles L. 6342-1 and L. 6341-1 ;
6 Provide, in conjunction with the public employment service, in particular local missions, support for apprentices to prevent or resolve social and material difficulties that could jeopardise the apprenticeship contract;
7° Promote gender diversity within their structures by raising awareness among trainers, apprenticeship supervisors and apprentices of the issue of gender equality and the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace, and by pursuing a policy of guidance and promotion of training courses that highlight the advantages of gender diversity. They participate in the fight against the gendered distribution of professions;
8° Encourage gender diversity in professions and professional equality between women and men by organising information campaigns on these subjects for apprentices;
9° In addition to promoting equality between men and women, to encourage diversity within their structures by raising awareness among trainers, apprenticeship supervisors and apprentices of equal opportunities and the fight against all forms of discrimination, and by implementing a policy of guidance and promotion of training courses that highlights the advantages of diversity;
10° Encourage the national and international mobility of apprentices by appointing a dedicated staff member, who may include a mobility advisor mobilising local resources at national level and European Union programmes at international level, and by mentioning the mobility period in the content of the training course where appropriate;
11° Monitor and support apprentices when the training provided for in 2° of Article L. 6211-2 is provided in whole or in part by distance learning;
12° Assessing the skills acquired by apprentices, including in the form of continuous assessment, in accordance with the rules defined by each certifying body;
13° Supporting apprentices who have interrupted their training and those who have not obtained a vocational diploma or qualification at the end of their training, by referring them to the people and organisations likely to be able to help them define a plan to continue their training;
14° Supporting apprentices in their efforts to access the assistance to which they may be entitled under current legislation and regulations.
Training centres may entrust some of these tasks to consular chambers under conditions determined by decree.
