The national federation for temporary work agencies and the recruitment sector in France agreed with trade unions to create a process to ensure that workers have the skills to fit the jobs available. The agreement aims to support the companies in the branch in integrating their 28,850 permanent employees via the introduction of a dedicated training offer to enable the social partners of the companies and the branch to anticipate and prepare the future of jobs and skills of permanent employees.

It also aims to provide a potent reminder of the ethical basis of the professions of permanent employees. 

This commitment was included in the social agenda of the company by the agreement of 10 July 2020 "relating to urgent and structural measures allowing the recovery of temporary employment and the securing of career paths in the temporary work sector", based on a mapping of the permanent employees' professions drawn up by the Temporary Work and Recruitment Observatory (Observatoire de l'intérim et du recruitment) (OIR).

According to the agreement, the temporary work profession is extremely specific in many respects and requires numerous and diversified skills, as listed in chapter 2 of the agreement. The OIR should carry out a study on the evolution of professions to "better understand them and respond to skills needs”  and update the content of the job and skills sheets.

Moreover, the sector undertakes to promote the use of apprenticeships and to introduce a dedicated training offer on fundamentals of temporary work, diversity, the inclusion of people with disabilities, health and safety at work, and the impact of digitalisation. 

The agreement also suggests evaluating the opportunity and feasibility of creating branch certifications. 

Finally, the social partners in the sector entrust the National Bipartite Employment Committee (Commission paritaire nationale pour l'emploi, CPNE) with the task of monitoring the implementation of the agreement and monitoring it.