France Travail Réunion and the Réunion Federation of artisan bakers and pastry chefs (FRABP) signed a partnership agreement on October 23 intended to promote the bakery and pastry professions and to support the training that helps them evolve.
As Olivier Pelvoizin clarified, Regional Director of France Work, This three-year agreement is part of the agency’s effort to promote “gesture professions”, manual trades. The regional director of France Travail notably recalled the effective relay that constitutes the MyJobGlasses.re platform , where students and job seekers can interact with professionals to find out about the reality of the professions. Working bakers and pastry chefs were invited to join the platform’s “ambassadors”. “There is no age to become a baker and pastry chef”, also underlined Olivier Pelvoizin, highlighting a little-known aspect of this profession, namely that it attracts every year, including in Reunion, a certain number of employees seeking professional retraining, who find in the art of baking and pastry a creativity and utility that intellectual professions no longer provide them. Norbert Tacoun, president of the FRABP, also testified that he himself, originally, changed career to become a baker.
Jobs to be better known
Bringing together more than 350 companies, employing some 2,800 employees, welcoming around 300 apprentices each year, this is the outline of this activity in Reunion, for which training is a keystone in meeting the expectations of diversified customers and changing consumption patterns. A first agreement signed with France Travail in 2018 made it possible to harmonize and professionalize the organization of work in this sector., which continues to encounter recruitment difficulties. Make these professions known, this is more than ever the objective of the FRABP, Norbert Tacoun pleading for open days for the bakery and pastry shop. Especially with a 2023 world baking champion, Brice Vieler, and a silver medal at the Wordskills (ex-Skills Olympics), Reunion has nothing to be ashamed of its level. What the regional competition for the best almond pancake confirmed, the results of which were announced on the occasion of the signing of the 2025 convention, won by Matthieu Furic, from Maison Furic to Vincendo, followed by Cédric Nourry, from the Dream Cake bakery in Saint-Denis, and Nathaël Crew, of the patisserie le Grego's de Cambuston.
