Mauritania: Non-permanent Workers Demand a Settlement of Their Status

The Office of Non-permanent Workers in Mauritania called on the government to solve the problem of these workers and integrate them into the corps of state contracting agents.

A protest took place by dozens of non-permanent workers last week, in front of the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

The office sent a letter to the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El-Ghazwani, requesting his urgent intervention with the authorities concerned with the settlement of the status of non-permanent workers in the country, by applying the decree issued in February.

The office issued a statement after the demonstration, in which it accused the committee in charge of implementing the decree, not to perform its mission, “despite the time period and the privileges granted to it”.

The statement added that the committee was supposed to perform the revision and classification, “but after stops and sit-ins in front of the ministries concerned, it became clear to us that the committee did not carry out its work and it was necessary to move to demand the state and inform public opinion about the reality in which we live despite the decree issued against us”.

In February, the Mauritanian government formed a committee to implement the decree relating to the integration of non-permanent workers into the corps of state contracting agents.

 

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