The contract of integration of graduates aims at enabling the beneficiary to acquire professional qualifications alternately between a private enterprise and a public or private institution of training according to the job requirements the enterprise undertakes to grant it to the beneficiary.

This contract is designated for the Tunisian graduate job seekers who have been unemployed for more than three years since their graduation.

The contract of integration of graduates is decided for one year on the basis of specific training programme fixed for that purpose between the hosting enterprise, the trainee and the national agency for employment and self-employment. 

The specific training programme can be carried out either within the hosting enterprise or within a public or private institution of training. The national agency for employment and self-employment accepts the financial responsibility for the training cost of the trainees within the limits of 400 hours during the term of the contract.

The national agency for employment and self-employment grants the trainee a monthly allowance of one hundred and fifty dinars.

The agency grants the beneficiary residing outside the governorate of the hosting enterprise a monthly allowance that does not exceed fifty dinars during the term of the contract.

The enterprise must grant an additional monthly allowance of at least one hundred and fifty dinars during the term of the contract.

The enterprise will recruit the beneficiary who has completed the contract of integration of graduates. However, the enterprise which is not complied with these provisions can benefit from a new contract only after the lapse of at least two consecutive years after the end of the last contract it has benefited from.

The enterprise which carries out the recruitment of the trainee benefits from a recruitment premium equal to one thousand dinars; this premium is paid after one year of effective work from the date of recruitment. The enterprise wanting to benefit from this advantage is required to submit an application in the office of employment and self employment according to the model available at this purpose.

The office of employment and self-employment carries out the payment of the premium and this within fifteen days from the date of submitting the complete file.

The private sector receives a financial support from the National Employment Fund of the employer’s contribution to the legal regime of social security relative to the salaries paid for the new recruitments of the jobseekers among the trainees within the contract of integration of graduates, and this lasts for seven years according to the table below:

To benefit from this advantage, the enterprise has to submit an application submit an application in the office of employment and self employment according to the model available at this purpose.

The application must be supported by liable documents in accordance with the indications of the model aforementioned.

 This advantage is granted by the governor’s decision after consulting the advisory committee.

The head of office of employment and self-employment transmits a copy of this decision to the beneficiary enterprise.

The benefit of this programme is subject to the prior registration of the beneficiary in the office of employment and self-employment and also at the conclusion of a contract of integration of graduates.