Morocco's cafés and restaurants sector employs a large proportion of citizens, as it has been expanded and developed, during the recent years in quantity and quality, where it plays a key role in the national economy.
Despite this expansion, the sector is experiencing many problems and its workers are facing great challenges. Trade union reports have confirmed that workers are still paid below the legal minimum wage.
Moreover, many owners of cafés and restaurants with moderate and weak profits do not adhere to the provisions of the Labour Code (376 to 381) on giving customers a ticket that includes the price of the product and the rate of the service, which will enable it to guarantee its commitments to the workers.
Some reports revealed that many coffee shop owners and restaurants freely determine the prices of their products without any intervention to prevent them, and they only rely on the logic of supply and demand, while most of them do not respect the rights of workers or the law.
At the same time, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Integration continues to adopt the traditional method of monitoring, without trying to adopt a monitoring program with a specific timetable, starting with a sensitization campaign, and coordinating labour inspectors with National Social Security inspectors, thereby helping to disseminate the social protection to this wide range of citizens.
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