Morocco: new contacts to regulate domestic workers work

Morocco – After the Domestic Workers Law came into effect last August, the Official Gazette on October 2017 issued new forms of employment contract for workers or domestic workers, in accordance with article 3 of Law NO. 19.12 On Determining the conditions of employment for domestic workers. The contract includes limiting the daily working hours, specifying the exact nature and type of work and the tasks assigned to the domestic worker, which the contract classifies either by taking care of the house, including children, taking care of an elderly who is sick or disabled, or gardening tasks and driving. Article 3 of the same document included a 15 days probationary period for the worker during which one of the parties could terminate the employment contract voluntarily and without compensation. . In terms of weekly work hours, they were set at 48 hours per week for workers and domestic workers above the age of 18 and 40 hours for those between the ages of 16 and 18. The contract also specifies the minimum wage paid to domestic worker, which requires not less than 60% of the legal minimum wage applicable in the industrial, commercial and free professions sectors in accordance with Article 19 of Law No. 19.12