The government wants to compensate the employees of the traditional hammams closed to counter Covid-19, announced on Monday in Parliament in Rabat the Minister of State in charge of Human Rights and Relations with Parliament, Mustapha Ramid.
More than six months after the dismissal of Royal Air Maroc’s airline pilots, the national carrier will announce a new wave of layoffs. Nearly 177 cabin crew (PNC) members of its subsidiary Atlas Multiservices (AMS) have received their dismissal letter for economic reasons.
Economic development implies full respect for health security and the dignity of employees. This is what the Moroccan Minister of Labor and Professional Integration, Mohamed Amkraz , particularly concerned by these times of health crisis, indicated.
The vaccination process that began a few days ago in Morocco is raising so much hope among tourism professionals. Battered by the recession due to the health crisis, these players are eagerly awaiting the dawn of a new era for their sector. The country will be able to become frequentable again, and the sector will regain its breath.
The legal troubles of Medi1 TV never end. The television channel has just been attacked in the labor court by another employee, who claims to have been the victim of unfair dismissal.
With a 50% market share, Morocco stands out as a "high-end" destination, expert in higher value-added services, unlike a Low Cost destination, said Youssef Chraiba, president of the Moroccan Federation of Outsourcing Services. Despite "aggressive price offers" from competitors, the kingdom maintains its leadership in French-speaking outsourcing.
While the harvest looks promising, French farmers are looking for Moroccan seasonal workers in these difficult times of Covid-19. Christiane Lambert, president of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA), has called on all willing volunteers.
From January to November 2020, Moroccan tourism revenues fell by 51% due to the consequences of the health crisis. But the decline had a mitigating factor of 76% a month earlier, due to the arrivals of Moroccans living abroad, according to the Ministry of Finance.
The French justice system has ordered new investigations into the inquiry on the network of Moroccan seasonal agricultural workers dismantled in Montauban. For their part, the fruit growers in Tarn-et-Garonne are in shock.
Due to the health crisis, Morocco’s guides are experiencing great precariousness. For more than ten months, the efforts of the associations representing this professional category of national tourism have been focused mainly on coordination with the authorities, to obtain the lump-sum allowance. This is slow in coming.
Due to the negative impact of the health crisis on its economy, Oman has decided to exclude foreign workers, including Moroccans, from several areas of activity in the private sector.
Salaries and working conditions in the public medical sector do not interest young Moroccan doctors. Several of them boycotted the recent recruitment competitions launched by the government in certain regions of the kingdom.