Allowing your maid, gardener, security guard or even nanny to benefit from social security coverage is not yet a common practice in Morocco. Since its implementation until today, only 3,000 domestic workers have actually been able to benefit from social security coverage.
King Mohammed VI launched on Wednesday, at the Fez Palace, the project to generalize social protection for an annual total amount of 51 billion dirhams. On this occasion, the sovereign presided over the signing of the first agreements to enable the effective implementation of this large-scale project which aims to target all Moroccans by 2025.
The flat-rate monthly allowance for the tourism sector will continue until the end of May 2021. This is what the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) announced in a press release published on Friday.
At the end of February 2021, the number of Moroccans affiliated with social security in Spain is 264,304, according to the Spanish Ministry of Integration, Social Security and Migration.
In Morocco, more than half of employees are without a contract, or 43.2% among women, compared to 58.2% among men. This is according to the information note published by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) on the main characteristics of the employed active population in 2020.
The Moroccan government intends to universalize compulsory basic health insurance, family allowances and pensions within a few years. It is in this framework that it approved on Thursday, during a council of ministers held in Fez, a framework law on social protection.
Morocco records nearly 2,000 work-related deaths per year, one of the highest figures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, according to the International Labor Office (ILO). Faced with these alarming figures, the President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) called for a reform of the occupational health and safety system based on a comprehensive vision.
Deputy Danièle Obono is concerned about the fate of the chibanis and chibanias who are excluded from the enjoyment of the right of retired persons residing abroad to have their health costs covered. In a text presented to the Assembly, she draws the attention of the French Minister of Solidarity and Health, Olivier Véran, to the injustices done to these people, whose number is estimated between 800,000 and 850,000.
The Spanish Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security has indicated that 259,773 Moroccans, at the end of November, were affiliated with the social security system.
After the statements of the Minister of Health, it is the turn of the National Health Insurance Agency (ANAM) to put a brake on the actions of certain private clinics in Morocco.
In Morocco, 75,909 women earn 10,000 dirhams and more, compared to 171,485 men for the same amount. These data were published by the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), which stressed that many of the declared salaries are below the minimum wage (SMIG).
Moroccan tourism professionals will soon be in possession of the subsidies granted to them for the month of September. Despite this subsidy, they still fear bankruptcy.