The Moroccan Union of Workers in Casablanca has announced that it will closely monitor the repercussions of the new Coronavirus pandemic on male and female workers and the public wage earners, to reduce its economic and social impacts.
According to a press release, the union central had approved, “a number of proactive measures and recommendations addressed to union representatives, and workers' representatives, to enter into consultations and dialogue with employers and contracting departments, in order to study the possibilities available to maintain employment positions, by adopting a social plan, which includes a set of proposals, agreed upon by the social partners, which are continuity in work, anticipation of the annual holidays for the months of March or April resulting from them, and work alternately between the employees in this pandemic, as well as reducing working hours and recourse to other measures to maintain jobs”.
The regional union of Casablanca confirmed that a group of enterprises “responded to these suggestions and recommendations”, noting that to the extent that it is proud that its union representatives were able, in agreement with employers, to maintain the continuity of work and the production cycle, and for jobs, “as much as it regrets that some sectors are suffering from these difficult circumstances, including textiles and pret-a-porter clothes, tourism and hotels, airlines, airports, call centers, services, brokerage and handling companies. the union hoped that the government will take accompanying measures to save these professional sectors.
The Moroccan Labor Union had asked the Prime Minister, at the meeting of March 30, 2020 “to ensure that some employers do not take advantage of this circumstance to get rid of the procedure, and called for the issuance of a decree requiring enterprises not to terminate employment contracts in this circumstance, and that was responded to in The last government council”.
The Union also called on the government to find a solution to the procedure, which was not declared with the Social Security in the month of February, “It is not their fault, in addition to the hired persons expelled from their work due to collective disputes or union reasons, before this pandemic”.
They also suggested restarting the textile and garment units, which would include thousands of workers in manufacturing protective supplies: such as masks, gloves, health materials, etc., and to address the effects of this economic and social crisis on each sector according to its specificity.
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