“
Urgent: you will lose your CPF rights.
Consult your budget and claim your training 100% supported
”.
Whether by SMS or by phone, these kinds of messages have become commonplace.
Training organizations, sometimes fraudulent, try to push the French to open the electronic wallet of their personal training account (CPF).
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These untimely solicitations were however in the crosshairs of the government, which had planned to ban them.
An amendment, promised by the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne, was to be added to this effect at the end of 2021 in the finance bill.
The minister then affirmed that she wanted to draw inspiration from the system put in place “
after the abuses noted in the context of energy renovation, which prohibits any cold calling
”.
Planned certifications
However, according to Le Parisien, the amendment supposed to prohibit cold calling linked to the CPF disappeared due to partisan quarrels in Parliament and did not survive the passage of the bill in the Senate.
From now on, the government only has a narrow window of opportunity to hope to fight against this type of canvassing.
Thus, the Ministry of Labor began to cooperate with the anti-fraud services of the Ministry of Economy.
A way to preserve the image of the CPF, which suffers from cases of fraud.
One of the tracks is the certification of training centers recognized by France Competences, through the Qualiopi label.
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The hunt for fraudsters promises to be extensive, since according to the Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC) responsible for administering the system and quoted by
Le Monde
, the frauds concern 14,300 CPF accounts and weigh 16 million euros.
Figures to be put into perspective with the total number of training courses provided: 984,000 in 2020.