According to “Hespress” website, dozens of hotels classified in different cities informed their seasonal workers of the decision to dispense with their services due to the cancellation of reservations by a number of foreign tourists, and thus their incomes declined.
The site added that the decision to reduce the workforce in hotels is limited at the current stage to seasonal workers and hourly workers and may include in case of a continuing tourism recession employed and associated with employment contracts.
Trade unions working in the hotel sector have rushed to send an urgent correspondence to Nadia Fattah Al-Alawi, Minister of Tourism, Air Transport, Handicraft, and Social Economy, in order to study the measures related to the displacement of tens of workers working in the tourism sector.
Abdullah al-Kabbouri, general secretary of the Union of Workers and Users of Hotels and Tourist Professions, which is under the banner of the Democratic Confederation of Labor, stated that the decision to abandon seasonal workers in hotels varies according to the conditions of each hotel establishment, indicating that some hotels temporarily dismissed daily workers until the return of tourism activity, while other hotel establishments chose to detain some of them for specific periods between 05 and 15 days.
The same union official, in a statement to the “Hespress” website, called on the government to intervene to mitigate the damages of laying off these seasonal workers, “because they have family obligations regardless of the legal conditions in which they work”.
Abdullah Al-Kabbouri reported that the union has invited the Minister of Tourism to study the situation and discuss ways to avoid losses, but she did not reach the deadline of today with any answer from the minister, stressing the need for the state to intervene to protect at least the positions of occupying groups affected by the Corona Virus, and that Among the proposals is the implementation of the clause on compensation for loss of work established by Moroccan law.
At a time when several countries have taken the necessary measures to protect hotel workers after the Corona virus developments, professional sources confirmed that there are no precautionary measures in Moroccan hotels, even though workers in the sector feel fear.
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