Digitalization and skill valorization are essential pillars to promote small businesses and enable them to join globalized markets and gain a foothold in the international trade system, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment, and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, said on Thursday.
Promoting small businesses is a process that involves digital transition, with a funding formula to cover the costs of this project, as well as preserving skills, he said in a panel discussion on “Trade, Employment, and Sustainable Development: Promoting Human and Workers’ Rights” on the sidelines of the World Labor Summit in Geneva.
On social policies, the Minister referred to the discrepancy between what the market requires and what workers demand, calling for innovative and effective social policies that respond to social demands, while complying with the requirements of the market and its rules in a competitive and globalized world.
He pointed out that small businesses play a key role in the Moroccan economy, particularly in terms of job creation, adding that to improve their socioeconomic situation, large segments of the working population resort to collective bargaining.
Regarding the renewal of the social dialogue framework to achieve these objectives, the Minister outlined the Moroccan experience in this field, recalling the signing, last year, of a historic tripartite document bringing together the government, employers, and trade union organizations.
Held as part of the 111th session of the International Labor Conference, the panel was attended by leading figures, including the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.
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