The Gestion Prévisionnelle des Emplois et des Compétences (GPEC) - Forward Planning of Employment and Skills is a French process to anticipate the consequences of the evolution of labour markets in order to ensure that workers have the skills needed to fit the jobs available. Prism’emploi and French Trade Unions agreed to partner on this strategic move in the context of the Covid-19 crisis which has hit agency workers hard.
The challenge
The Covid-19 crisis brought many changes to labour markets: some sectors have seen their job potential dropping while others could not find the personnel they needed; organisations reinvented the workplace to comply with health & safety requirements; workers had to learn how to work remotely and to build resilience, etc. As a result, there is a strong need to reskill people to help them find new jobs or to skill them for new roles that are being created.
Agency workers were hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis and it is critical that they are not left behind when the economy starts to recover. Working on ensuring that they have the right skills is essential to secure employment and future work opportunities for them. For companies, it is also essential to better anticipate future employment and skills needs in order to reinforce their competitiveness.
Solution
Prism’emploi, the national federation for temporary work agencies and the recruitment sector in France, agreed with trade unions to establish a “Gestion Prévisionnelle des Emplois et des Compétences (GPEC)” – Forward Planning of Employment and Skills – for the temporary agency work sector.
The GPEC is a process to anticipate the consequences of the evolution of labour markets in order to ensure that workers have the skills needed to fit the jobs available. The first phase of the project will focus on job and skill mapping on four regions of France that either have been particularly hit by the Covid-19 crisis (because they are home to sectors such as aeronautics or automotive) or that count a large majority of low-skilled blue collars workers amongst agency workers.
Once the skills mismatch will be evaluated by the end of 2020 by the sectoral observatory institute (OIR – Observatoire de l’intérim et du recrutement), the sector will mobilise its training programs which opens up for a certification or qualification; and therefore secures the pathway to employment.
As part of the project, OIR has edited in February 2020 a baseline study listing and describing professions under transformation processes (emerging, shortage, loss, endangered, niche …) to contribute to job anticipation.
Key numbers
4
regions mapped
250000
EUR budget for baseline study
50
% state funding
Resources
Outcomes
December 2020: Job and skills mapping for the four identified regions
April 2021: “Transversal skills” study
Development of databases for career guidance of temp workers and business development
Country/ies of implementation
Partners
- Trade unions (CFDT, CFE-CGC, Unsa, CFTC, CGT)
- Observatoire de l'Intérim et du Recruitement (OIR)
- AKTO (training fund)
- DGEFP (French administration for labour and training)