What is Inclusion Through Economic Activity (IAE)?
Verified 16 October 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)
Integration through economic activity (IAE) enables people who are unemployed and encounter social and occupational difficulties (e.g. people receiving social minima, very long-term job seekers) to benefit from an employment contract. The EIA may include training actions. We present you the information to know.
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Integration through economic activity has first and foremost a social mission, it is to be able to offer support towards employment to people who need it.
This support, he relies both on personalized individual support to allow each person to reveal his talents and find a professional project that fascinates him and at the same time to have every day a job that will allow him to acquire new skills and also to have confidence in the future and in his abilities.
I love my job as a career integration counselor. This job gives me the opportunity to meet a wide audience of people and my role will be to accompany them to understand and realize their professional project.
In my job, I rely on different prescribers, training devices and partner companies. We obviously have France travail, which is one of our biggest prescribers, and we have set up various operations.
An operation for underwater people of justice, an operation for refugees and also an operation for people with disabilities.
I'm Johnny in CDI at Eitem as 1:131 minute and 13 seconds as an industrial tutor.
Following a release from prison, I started my journey at the Mergos entry box. I met a CPR who made the necessary arrangements so that I could find missions that suit me completely. I was offered a CDI after the first mission.
After that, I was called back so that I could take the training as an industrial tutor. And today, I found a job that suits me and in which I feel very good.
At MTri, I'm the director of human resources and transition. Our transition path lasts between 6 months and 24 months. A journey during which employees are trained in technical skills for the job of collector driver, but also in transversal skills that will serve them for their next job.
We are convinced that action reveals talent and that everyone is employable. I'm a driver, collector, sorter. I'm showing it. In my activities here, we found it easier for me to be useful to others. I participate in the training of school groups that arrive for the good deeds of ecology. I became a sorting ambassador which is a title that I wished I could do for the rest!
You are affected by the IAE
- If you are unemployed for a very long period (24 months or more, i.e. 2 years or more)
- Or if you perceive the RSA: titleContent orASS: titleContent orAAH: titleContent.
You can also access an EIA if you meet several other criteria called additional criteria. Examples of criteria for access to an EIA include:
- Level of study 3 or lower
- Over 50 years
- Under 26
- Leaving child welfare (ASE)
- Long-term job seekers (LTJS), i.e. 12 months (one year) and more
- Disabled worker
- Single parent
- Person without accommodation or accommodated or having a street route
- Statutory refugees, beneficiaries of temporary protection, subsidiary protected persons or asylum seekers
- Resident in Rural Revitalization Area (ZRR)
- Resident in a priority neighborhood of the city policy (QPV)
- Released from detention or person placed under the hand of justice.
It is an organization that can assess whether you meet the conditions to enter this device.
This body, called prescriber, can refer you to specialized social and professional integration structures that can offer them work.
The list of prescribers empowered at national level shall be public and accessible by geographical area.
These prescribers may be in particular :
- France Labor
- Local Mission (under 26)
- Cap employment (person with a disability)
- Department Services
- CCAS: titleContent
- National Agency for Vocational Training of Adults (Afpa)
- Caf: titleContent
- MSA: titleContent
- 2nd Chance School (E2C).
To benefit from the IAE, you must sign an employment contract with one of these structures.
There are four of them and they correspond to one or more sectors of activity.
Insertion Structures | Sector of activity | Nature of the contract |
|---|---|---|
Insertion company (EI) | Merchant goods and services | |
Temporary insertion work company (ETTI) | Sectors covered by the temporary work | Acting |
All sectors of activity | Trainee in vocational training | |
Personal services (mainly) |
Specificities may exist if it is a temporary insertion work company (ETTI):
General scenario
The contract is 4 minus minimum.
It may be renewed up to a maximum of 24 months (2 years) in total.
However, this contract can be renewed beyond to finish a training action in progress.
A person who is at least 57 years old and who is experiencing social and professional difficulties may enter into a CDI: titleContent.
ETTI
The contract duration is fixed by the collective agreement. The total duration of these contracts can be 24 months (2 years).
An ETTI may enter into a CDI: titleContent with people over the age of 57 experiencing social and professional difficulties. This contract can be concluded at least 12 months (one year) after the start of the IAE journey.
An employee hired as part of an IAE benefits, in particular before leaving the system, from enhanced monitoring and support (examples: job search workshops, evaluation, skills assessment).
A site allows the candidate and/or the person accompanying him/her (example: France Travail) to identify by geographical area the offers available under the IAE:
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
Administrative information by telephone - Allô Service Public
For more information on this subject, you can contact Allô Service Public.
Please note: the service does not have access to users' personal files and cannot therefore provide information on their progress.
He does not respond questions concerning unemployment compensation and the approach to the France Labor (formerly Job center), public servants or contract workers of the fCivil Service, the amount or payment of contributions social, wage or employer.
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