
Morocco to Raise Tax-Free Income Threshold, Boosting Salaries in 2025
Moroccan employees can rub their hands. Tax measures favorable to them are recorded in the draft finance law (PLF-2025).

Moroccan employees can rub their hands. Tax measures favorable to them are recorded in the draft finance law (PLF-2025).

Tried in particular for the offenses of undeclared work, employment of foreign workers without a work permit, assistance with irregular stay and subjection of persons to unworthy working conditions, a Moroccan couple residing in Grabels, on the northern outskirts of Montpellier, was sentenced to prison and a fine.

Tourism accounts for about 7% of GDP and generates more than 500,000 direct jobs, or about 5% of Morocco’s active population. This is what emerges from the latest World Bank report on the economic situation in Morocco.

Deputy Loubna Sghiri, member of the Progress and Socialism group in the House of Representatives, warns about the precarious working conditions affecting workers in traditional hammams, whose number of working days has been reduced to three days per week due to the water shortage in Morocco.

In 2020, Kuwait Airways had laid off 1,500 foreign workers in response to the significant financial impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. This airline, which employs many Moroccans, is undergoing a new wave of layoffs.

France has just launched a new visa for self-employed workers, including Moroccans, offering them the opportunity to settle and work in the country. This visa, initially valid for one year, can be renewed annually up to a maximum of five years.

The Superior Court of Justice of Galicia has ordered the issuance of a temporary residence permit to a Moroccan to work as a kitchen assistant in a Moroccan restaurant in Pontevedra, after the public employment service certified that there was no other qualified candidate for the position.

The airline Emirates will launch this month a large recruitment campaign in Morocco to strengthen its cabin crew.

Despite incentives for self-employment, the unemployed prefer to look for salaried employment, reveals Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) in a recent report.

Slowly but surely, Morocco is taking a big step towards the realization of its ambition to welcome 26 million visitors by 2030, with an intermediate objective of 17.5 million tourists and the creation of 200,000 jobs by 2026.

The US Embassy in Morocco has warned against employment fraud in the United States, noting that the US government does not require fees for job or grant applications.

The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) is launching a large-scale recruitment campaign to strengthen its workforce. Nearly 6,500 positions are to be filled, covering a variety of grades and functions within the national police .