Butchers, home help, cook … The new list of unveiled tension trades

Agriculture, home help, restoration … The government sent the social partners on Friday the list of several dozen professions in tension in metropolitan France, the basis of reference to the authorities to grant or not residence permits.

The latest version had been established in 2021 on the basis of the 2008 data. Several dozen different professions are counted in 2025. “We worked with the Ministry of the Interior, with the regions, the social partners to have a list of Trades in tension by major regions, ”said the Minister of Labor on Friday morning, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, on Franceinfo.

Unions and employers will debate it next week

This list was sent to the social partners, before “a last national consultation”, she continued. Union and employer organizations will debate this new list next week, before a publication in the Official Journal, according to concordant sources.

Big needs in Ile-de-France

Thus, only the Normandy region is in search of surveyors, while seven regions (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Paca, Occitanie, Grand Est, Corsica, Center-Val de Loire and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) out of Treize are looking for butchers.

“Employee farmers”, “home help and household assistance”, “cooking assistance”, “cooks”, “household workers and cleaning staff”, “market gardeners/horticulturalists”, as well as hotel employees And the building sector are sought after throughout the territory. The three regions that have the most professions in tension are Ile-de-France (41 trades), Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur (39) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (37 trades).

Hotel and catering recall the difficulties of recruiting

The last immigration law, promulgated in January 2024, provided that undocumented workers practicing in tension trades could claim regularization with the prefect. In January 2025, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau sent a new circular to the prefects providing in particular that the exceptional regularizations by work were now refocused on the trades in tension.

The main professional organization in hotel and catering, UMIH, then recalled the difficulties of the sector to be recruited.

She had thus “wanted the new circular to not harden the conditions of regularization and access to employment for foreign nationals already present on our soil and wishing to work in (its) trades”.