Observatories of professional branches
| Name in national Language | Observatoire de branche professionnelle |
| Phase | Anticipation |
| Country | France |
| Type |
Provision of labour market information |
| Coverage/Eligibility | Coverage extends to individual professional networks. |
| Main Characteristics | Observatories collect and analyse information on companies in their field, and employment and training in the sector. They also analyse and anticipate the impact of economic, technological, regulatory or demographic trends in employment and training requirements. In doing so, they provide trainers with information on required skills and make employees more responsible for their own training. |
| Involvement Of |
Employers' or employees' organisations
National government |
| Funding |
Social partners (jointly) |
| Effectiveness | No information available. |
| Strengths | Strengths of this model include: an agreed methodology to fuel social dialogue; communication with employees; changes being shared by employees, the HR department, management, experts and representatives; the provision of information on required skills, thus making employees more responsible for their own training. |
| Weaknesses | No information available. |
| Example | Insurance business observatory; observatory of household services. |
| Url | No information available. |
| Source | Triomphe, C.E., Teissier, C., Goryacheva, A. National background paper France. Anticipating and managing restructuring in enterprises: 27 national seminars. ARENA Report. Brussels, European Commission, 2009. |
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