Annexes

Les fiches pratiques de la formation continue
Centre Inffo, Centre pour le développement de l'information sur la formation permanente
Paris la Défense: Centre Inffo, January 2000, 1079 pages + file for updating.
Note- a CD-ROM of the 'Fiches pratiques de la formation continue' is available with the paper version.

The first section of the document which covers the target groups, sets out employees', public servants', job seekers' and non-salaried workers' entitlement to training. The second section deals with the players involved: public authorities, companies, social partners, and training providers, as well as the European dimension. A series of useful addresses and indexes completes the document.

The two classical pathways into training leave for employees are personal leave for training and the training plan. A third, more recent option should be added to these two: training time capital (capital de temps de formation). The required level of competence can be reached along all three pathways. To help them cope with the absence of employees undergoing training, small companies are entitled to replacement support. This edition details the various options.

From a survey conducted on a sample of some 1900 persons who took personal leave for training in 1994, it appeared that 55% of them had noticed a direct effect on their career. 46% changed jobs, by changing company in more than one case in two. The effects are most clearly felt in these cases. Although the hope of social and professional promotion is sometimes unfulfilled, employees deem the effects of PTL to be positive overall in terms of qualifications, skills and personal development.

Introduced in the late sixties, personal leave for training has met with great success. Nonetheless, major uncertainty hangs over its future: this is the lesson to be learned from this study. Having painted the backdrop to its emergence and development, the second section then tackles its funding mechanisms, and more particularly the role of the approved joint organisations (OPACIF). A series of annexes completes the study: the main documents, quantitative data, bibliography.

Key institutions

Joint Committee for Individual Training Leave

1. AFDAS(HC)
Training insurance fund for employees in entertainment, leisure, the cinema, audio-visual and advertising
Area of activity:
Companies involved in live entertainment, leisure, cinema, audio-visual and advertising.

3, rue au Maire
75156 Paris cedex 03
Tel.: 01 44 78 39 39

2. AUVICOM (HC)
Audio-visual and telecommunications OPCA
Area of activity:
Companies in the audio-visual sector, with the exception of casual entertainers.

12-14 rue de l'Eglise
75015 Paris
Tel.: 01 44 37 90 30

3. CCFP (HC)
Vocational training coordinating centre
Area of activity
CGT - Conféderation générale du Travail, confederated organisations (trade unions, professional federations, departmental unions), works councils, associations, mutual benefit associations.

263, rue de Paris
Case 411
93514 Montreuil cedex
Tel.: 01 48 18 84 15

4. FAF (Fonds d'assurance formation - Training Insurance Fund)
for the staff of the professional chambers (HC)
Area of activity:
Salaried employees of the professional chambers

12, avenue Marceau
75008 Paris
Tel.: 01 44 43 10 00

5. Social Security FAF (HC)
Area of activity
All bodies within the general Social Security system

Tour Maine Montparnasse
33, avenue du Maine
Boîte 45
75755 Paris cedex 15
Tel.: 01 45 38 01 40

Formacion a lo largo de la vida - lifelong learning
Permiso de formacion - training leave
Licencia diaria - day release
Licencia de estudios - educational leave
Condiciones del trabajo - working conditions
Derechos de los trabajadores - workers' rights
Reduccion del tiempo de trabajo - reduction of working hours
Planificacion de la profesion - career planning
Evolucion de carrera - career development
Promocion - promotion
Formacion profesional continua - continuing vocational training
Organizacion del trabajo - work organisation
Movilidad profesional - occupational mobility
Trayectoria profesional - career
Formacion del personal - staff training
Trabajador - worker
Convenios colectivos - collective agreements
Empresa - enterprise
Competitividad - competitiveness
Cualificaciones - qualifications
Reconversion profesional - retraining
Competencia - skill
Formacion individual - individual training
Adaptacion de los trabajadores - workers' adaptation