OREANDA-NEWS. May 16, 2016. Jean-Fransois Carenco, Prefet for the Ile-de-France region and Paris, together with Thierry Roger, Director of Carrefour France’s Employment Centre signed a regional agreement, binding them to a "Businesses and Neighbourhoods Charter", designed to help young people from areas with high levels of delinquency and other priority neighbourhoods in Paris establish a foothold on the job market. This partnership is in line with Carrefour France’s commitment and its various other initiatives that have established employment for young people as one of the priorities of its human resources policy.

Through this agreement, Carrefour will be helping with the economic and social development of priority neighbourhoods, implementing a targeted action plan over 5 years. It is in line with the initiatives that it has already implemented to train young people and provide them with employment, both through recruitment and training programmes (Professional Qualification Certificates for Butchers, Youth Employment Today, etc.), and by establishing employment links with the charity sector (the Apprentis d’Auteuil Catholic association, the Second Chance School etc.).

Carrefour, a major employer in France and the Ile-de-France region

In Paris, Carrefour employs nearly 1850 people in its hypermarkets and Market supermarkets, as well as in its Carrefour Banque and Carrefour Voyage agencies. In 2015, nearly 600 people were hired in the capital city, more than 50% of whom were young people under the age of 26.

At national level, 60% of all recruits are young people under the age of 26.
In 2015, Carrefour helped 42,000 people get onto the job market, it trained 5500 people as part of apprenticeships or professionalisation contracts and hired 250 young graduates.

The "Businesses and Neighbourhoods" charter: joint initiatives to help young people in priority neighbourhoods onto the job market

Under the agreement, Carrefour will be making three commitments to help young people from areas with high levels of delinquency and other priority neighbourhoods in Paris:

  • The second chance pact: help for 6 young people living in priority areas with high levels of delinquency and who are under judicial authority to find employment through a training programme leading to a qualification, or through long-term employment via various common-law schemes (employment initiative contract, future job convention, etc.);
  • Employment, integration and professional training: promote the employment and hiring of young people from priority neighbourhoods in partnership with stakeholders involved in employment and professional integration: developing the mentoring scheme for job-seekers, recruiting young graduates from priority districts, incorporating integration clauses into contracts, developing skills sponsorship schemes in charities;
  • Education, academic orientation and social mediation at schools: help for young people structuring their professional ambitions by offering them guidance: preparing schoolchildren and students for their first experience of the job market, offering internships to 14-year-olds, implementing teaching, mentoring, school support and financial initiatives, providing social mediation at schools and in the areas around them.
     

The Paris and Ile-de-France Prefectures will help Carrefour find people from priority neighbourhoods, will put it in contact with public employment services, will provide it with information about the types of schemes and organisations which are likely to be interested in its proposal and will promote the partnership across the region.