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Framework agreement on cooperation regarding French-German job-seeker placement
by the regional directorates in the case of the Federal Employment
Agency, and the regional directors or their representatives, as well as
the international regional contact person or his/her representative in
the case of Pôle Emploi.
Seven months after its inauguration, the cross-border placement service
in Kehl posts encouraging results:
Ì Ì 230 job-seekers monitored in France and Germany
Ì Ì 123 people returning to work (81 in Germany, 40 in France)
Ì Ì 41 targeted job searches resulting in recruitment (40 in
Germany).142
It should also be noted that the French-German employment agencies’
partnership particularly targets young people, a population that is more
inclined to be mobile. A framework agreement regarding cross-border
apprenticeships in the Upper Rhine was signed on 12 September 2013
to enable apprentices from Alsace, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-
Palatinate to complete the practical part of their training in a firm in the
neighbouring country.
142 Results at 19 September 2013; source: Pôle Emploi Alsace and Agentur für Arbeit
To what extent can this good practice be
adopted in other cross-border territories?
In France’s border regions in the North and North-East, there are
large flows of commuters who cross the border to work in regions
where there is a shortage of labour and where sometimes a different
language is spoken (Flanders and North-West Switzerland). The
development of services dedicated to the cross-border placement
of job-seekers may therefore constitute an effective response to
the difficulties often expressed by job-seekers and employers
(unfamiliarity with application and recruitment processes in the
neighbouring country, the challenge of administrative procedures
in a foreign language, etc.) and thereby contribute to reducing
unemployment and the filling of vacancies.
From a legal point of view, moreover, there are no major restrictions
on the signature of a framework agreement between public
employment services along France’s other borders.
For more information:
Contact:
Marlyce BREUN
Director of Strategy and External Relations
Pôle Emploi Alsace
+ 33 3 88 10 88 03
Organisation of the cross-border job-seeker placement service in Strasbourg-Ortenau
Steering
Drawing up of guidelines
and evaluation of results by
the local steering committee
Advisers
Offenburg Federal
Employment Agency
- 2 FTPs for placement
- 1 FTP to receive job-
seekers
Strasbourg Pôle Emploi
– 2 FTPs for placement
Location
Premises of the Federal
Employment Agency at
Bahnhofstr. 3, Kehl
Staff remain employed by their respective organisations,
while national regulations apply to them.
Job-seekers have the rights and obligations in force in their
country of residence.
Bilingual signage
Use of the two information
systems AUDE/VerBis
Source: Pôle Emploi – Agentur für Arbeit