The Moroccan Labor Union presented a series of social procedures proposals to overcome the COVID-19 crisis.
During a session of the Moroccan Council of Advisors, the Moroccan Labor Union presented a description of the various deficiencies recorded in dealing with the Coronavirus crisis and presented a series of recommendations which reads as follows:
It is mandatory to conduct a dialogue at the level of the professional sectors and at the level of enterprises and economic units to prepare guides for safety procedures and measures to ensure the maintenance of health and safety of workers.
It is essential to impose precautionary measures, provide the necessary supplies of masks and thermometers, and to expand laboratory testing. In addition to the rest of the means of protection and respect for social distancing measures in work sites, industrial and service facilities.
It is crucial to tighten the monitoring and inspection procedures at work sites by strengthening the labor inspectorate apparatus in order to avoid the high percentage of industrial foci, which now constitute 20% of the total foci as stated in your offer. Such aspect confirms that some establishments do not respect precautionary measures, which for the most part do not respect the rights of workers to have unionists’ activities.
It is also necessary to maintain the rights and gains of workers and preserve their positions and take their situation into consideration at this stage by securing their transportation to their work sites as well as activating the occupational health and safety committee.
The importance of Maintaining the purchasing power in light of the extension of the quarantine of workers and citizens and the expansion and strengthening of support directed to vulnerable groups, namely unauthorized workers and those who are suspended from work as well as families who live below poverty and are
not Ramid card holders, which therefore makes it important to strengthen and ensure some benefits for these categories.
work of a comprehensive system and in accordance with a human rights approach as it is the true and institutional embodiment of the content of social solidarity and one of the mechanisms for the equitable distribution of wealth.
Finally, the need of speeding up in finding a solution to the structural problem presented by the informal sector and the bunker economy, in a way that guarantees the protection of workers and the recognition of their rights.
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