“It is imperative to enact a consensual law, which embodies the rights and ambitions of the working class, given the crucial role that this text plays in strengthening social peace, and ensuring the stability of investments,” stressed the groups of the parliamentary majority during their interventions on the occasion of the meeting of the Social Sectors Committee, devoted to the general examination of the said bill, in the presence of the Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri.
To this end, they called for work to create “a climate of consensus and harmony with a view to accelerating the adoption of this important and essential legislative initiative, and to achieving a version of the text that is unanimous among all stakeholders and transcends the divide between the majority and the opposition, as well as political calculations.”
The draft of this organic law enshrines the historical achievements relating to social legislation, and offers a response to real demands emanating from stakeholders in productive relations, they noted.
This project, which “comes from a process of consultation and compromise through the mechanism of social dialogue, is based on a participatory approach with the various social and economic partners, in accordance with the 2011 Constitution, and reflects the demands and ambitions of the working class and economic actors, in order to fill the legislative void”, they maintained.
For their part, the opposition groups called for the adoption of the law in “a spirit of consensus”, in accordance with the content of the Royal Speech, delivered by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, on October 9, 2015, on the occasion of the opening of the first session of the fifth legislative year of the ninth legislature, in which the Sovereign stressed that the development of the draft organic law on strikes “requires engaging in broad consultations and demonstrating a spirit of constructive consensus, so as to guarantee the rights of workers, the interests of employers and the interest of the Nation”.
This text requires a national consensus, in the sense that it concerns society as a whole and all stakeholders, these parliamentary groups noted, calling for “broadening consultations with the various unions, regardless of their representativeness, and deepening dialogue with the various social partners and experts”.
They also considered that the draft organic law on strikes has social, economic and legal dimensions, calling for “collective intelligence and a strong and creative spirit of consensus” to reach a compromise around this text.
Some components of the opposition stressed in their interventions that this issue is of a “priority nature, which goes beyond the binary logic of majority/opposition and politics/union, and transcends the mutual suspicion between the working class and the employers, in order to reach constructive consensus.”
On the other hand, many interventions insisted on the need to refine this legal text in order to guarantee “the right to strike”, and to ensure its adequacy with the provisions of the Constitution, international legislation and Morocco’s commitments in this area.
They also called for easing the restrictions contained in the draft law on strikes and strengthening its compatibility with international conventions in this area, preserving certain sensitive social sectors from the general strike, such as hospitals and the justice sector, as well as examining the deadlines, conditions, reasons and motives for any walkout movement.
2024-09-21 05:46:32