On 02 November, Morocco’s Labor Minister announced that the draft law on trade unions had been finalized, following changes made after input from employee representative organizations. Along with the more controversial proposed legislation on the right to strike, this now marks the second major element of the overall labor reform projects being pushed by the General Confederation of Enterprises of Morocco (CGEM- employers’ body), and which had been the subject of a compromise signed with 3 of the 4 Moroccan trade unions (UMT, UGTM, UNTM) in a social agreement signed on 25 April 2019.
Trade Union Reform. The key focus here surrounds the cancellation of the July 1957 decree on the constitution of trade unions (here) and the May 2004 labor code provisions on professional unions (articles 396-474), with the goal being to ‘modernize the unions.’ Minister of Employment, Mohamed Amekraz explained that the finalized draft now has to be adopted by the Council of Ministers and told the press on 02 November that he had taken trade union remarks into account.
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