A total of 5,016 employees who were made redundant because of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic were able to return to their jobs during the year 2020, said, on Tuesday in Rabat, Minister of Labor and Professional Integration Mohamed Amkraz.
Asked at the House of Advisors about the violations of the rights of employees under the pretext of the health crisis, Amkraz noted that, within the framework of the promotion of social peace and the prevention of conflicts, the agents in charge of labor inspectorate managed to process 63,235 individual labor disputes, while finding solutions to 74,181 complaints out of the 145,674 that were received (i.e. 50.92%), at a time when more than 1.9 billion dirhams were recovered for the benefit of complainants.
With regard to collective labor disputes, he said that the mediation actions carried out by the services of the ministry made it possible to cancel 1,950 strikes in nearly 1,629 establishments for the year 2020, i.e. an improvement of 19,71% compared to the year 2019.
In this sense, Amkraz praised the efforts made by labor inspectors, in particular with regard to raising awareness among companies and employees of the harmful effects of Covid-19 and the need to put in place preventive measures to avoid the spread of the virus in the workplace.
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