Mr. Ezzedine Zakari, President of the National Syndicate of Social Security Employees, which is under the banner of the Moroccan Labor Union, sent an open letter to the Moroccan Prime Minister, Dr. Saad Eddine El-Othmani, requested an urgent and fair solution to the file of the contractors working in social security clinics.
Zakari called for regularizing the status of 700 nurses working in social security clinics with a forced full-time contract like all other nurses, as they are deprived of their legitimate professional right to health and social coverage.
Zakari said in his message “It is very unfortunate, especially in these health conditions that threaten our homeland, that the professional abuse of about 700 nurses, working in social security clinics, who continue to function under a forced contract, and for a full time as the rest of the nurses, as they are deprived of their legitimate professional right to health and social coverage.”
“This category of male and female nurses has been operating in social security clinics for more than 10 years, and with a contract that has become incompatible with the permanent tasks they do, where they practice the nursing profession as stipulated in national and international laws, and today in light of the pandemic in our country, where health workers suffer most, these nurses continue their work with patriotism and sacrifice, despite the risks of being infected with the Coronavirus and other infectious diseases, because they are deprived of their right to health and social coverage”, added Zakari.
Zakari reminded that the Syndicate and the Moroccan Labor Union have been presenting during the last five years this arbitrary abuse faced by these nurses, whether through correspondence with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Labor and Professional Integration as well as the Minister of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform, or by talking about their suffering in national or sectoral social dialogue rounds as well as their interventions and questions in Parliament.
Zakari stressed that their abnormal occupational status as nurses must be settled in full rights, and social and health protection, especially since their services are the basis of the current social security clinics.
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