The Democratic Confederation of Labor sent a letter to Abd al-Wafi Laftit, the Minister of Interior, and Muhammad Amkraz, the Minister of Labor and Professional Integration, regarding preventive measures within the workplace, employee transport, and urban public transport.
The Confederation alerted government officials to the threatening conditions to a wide segment of the Moroccan working class due to the failure of some operators to respect the recommendations issued by official authorities in this field.
The Confederation considered in its letter that the absence or lack of preventive means and conditions for protecting life, health and safety of wages, requires “immediate and urgent intervention to prevent the worsening of the epidemiological situation in the working environment.”
It should be noted that the Executive Office, as soon as the announcement of the emergence of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Morocco were made, sent a message in this regard to government officials, alerting them, and calling them at the same time, to implement health and prevention measures in institutions that have not stopped practicing their productive activities or services. The situation worsened in the light of the health emergency and the quarantine situation, in which Morocco have gone into and decided to extend until May 20, 2020.
The Confederation also pointed to the dire health effects on a wide category of Moroccan workers, in light of the indifference of a number of employers, whose enterprises have turned into pandemic clusters, as revealed by the national system of epidemiological monitoring in the Kingdom.
Confirmed cases of infection among these entreprises’ employees and those accompanying them were noted, after the spread of infection in each of the fish processing laboratories in the “Inezgane Agadir” region, a number of industrial, commercial and service institutions in “Casablanca”, “Tangier”, “Fes”, “Marrakech” and “Larache”, as well as those resulting from buses transporting agricultural workers in a number of estates in the city of “Meknes”, due to the lack necessary preventive health procedures.
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