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• Orchestra-Prémaman to Cut 600 Jobs, Refocus on Profitable Markets Like Morocco
  19 February 2020, by Bladi.net

  A project to reorganize the staff representative bodies of the Hérault group Orchestra-Prémaman was presented on Monday and provides for the elimination of around 300 jobs abroad and 289 in France. The group now intends to rely on profitable markets, including Morocco.
  Around 600 jobs will be eliminated out of a total of 2,920 that Orchestra has. In difficulty for several years now, the French Hérault group, Orchestra-Prémaman, specializes in children’s clothing.
  "The difficult (…)

• Brain Drain: Morocco Loses Top Engineers to Lucrative Overseas Opportunities
  12 February 2019, by Said

  More and more Moroccan engineers are leaving the kingdom to go abroad, whether to Europe, the United States or even the Gulf countries. The reason is simple: the economic and social benefits are much greater than what they are offered in Morocco.
  The phenomenon is still making headlines today with the revelations of the newspaper Assabah, which reports that all (yes all!) of the engineers from the 2017-2018 class of the National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis (ENSIAS) (…)

• Study: 96% of Moroccan Workers Experience Job-Related Stress
  12 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  96% of Moroccan employees suffer from work-related stress, reveals a study by the consulting firm Mercer on the perception of work in Morocco.
  The main cause of stress is related to the lack of social security, indicates the study report. About 82% of the employees surveyed say that it is imperative for them to have access to good health insurance programs. Indeed, 45% of employees are treated in public health centers.
  The other cause that justifies the stress of Moroccan employees is (…)

• Morocco’s Self-Employment Program Reaches 117,835 Registrations, Boosting Entrepreneurship
  18 December 2019, by Ginette

  Registrations for the entrepreneur status are multiplying. The Minister of Professional Integration speaks of 117,835 registrations recorded at the end of November 2019.
  These figures were provided during the weekly oral question session at the House of Representatives. 30% of the beneficiaries of this program are women and 54% are young people, said Mohamed Amkraz, responding to a question from the PJD group on "the progress of the self-employed regime".
  He also stressed that 86,665 (…)

• Labor Market, Cybersecurity Law Top Agenda for Moroccan Government Council
  12 February 2020, by Ginette

  The Minister of Labor and Professional Integration is expected to give a presentation at the next Council of Government meeting to be held on Thursday, February 13, under the chairmanship of the Head of Government, Saâdeddine El Othmani. The minister will present on the development of employment market indicators between 2017 and 2019.
  The job market will take center stage at the next Council of Government meeting. After the presentation by the Minister of Employment, the Council will (…)

• Spanish Intelligence Agency Seeks Multilingual Interpreters, Including Arabic and Amazigh Speakers
  10 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Spanish intelligence services (National Intelligence Center) have published a job offer to recruit interpreters proficient in Russian, Hebrew, French, English, and Arabic. Including the dialects of North Africa and the Middle East, including Darija.
  "The National Intelligence Center (CNI) is looking for an interpreter/translator who will be responsible for translating at least one language, both orally and in writing," the counterintelligence service specifies.
  In addition to the (…)

• Moroccan Employment Minister Admits Failing to Register Employees with Social Security
  7 July 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Minister of Employment and Professional Integration, Mohamed Amekraz admits to having committed an offense by not declaring two of his law firm’s employees to the National Social Security Fund (CNSS).
  During his participation in a videoconference on the Sahara organized by the youth of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), Mohamed Amekraz said that he had entrusted the management of his law firm opened in 2016 to a colleague since his appointment as minister. The latter then set (…)

• Call Centers Lead Job Growth in Morocco Amid Pandemic, IT and Banking Follow
  17 January 2021, by Jérôme

  The sector that has recruited the most in 2020 in Morocco despite the health crisis is that of call centers. It is followed by IT operators and banks, which have also hired, but prioritizing entry-level profiles.
  "Out of the 75,316 positions opened on the job board last year, 50,883 concerned call centers, or nearly 68%," said L’Économiste. Thus, call centers have taken advantage of the rise of telework and the use by some clients, including e-commerce, of outsourced customer relationship (…)

• Starbucks: Mass layoffs due to the pro-Palestinian boycott
  6 March 2024, by Sylvanus

  The impact of the boycott campaign on its activities is pushing the American coffee chain Starbucks, managed by the Kuwaiti group Alshaya, to carry out massive layoffs.
  The boycott campaigns in response to its alleged support for the Israeli army fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip have significant consequences for the Starbucks franchisee in the Middle East. It has started laying off staff in its cafes in the region, after the brand was targeted by activists against the backdrop of the (…)

• Muslim Professionals Leaving France Amid Rising Discrimination and Career Barriers
  28 May 2024, by Sylvanus

  Many French executives of Muslim faith are leaving France to settle in Dubai, London, New York or Montreal due to discrimination in the job market, stigmatization for their religion, their names or their origins.
  "We are suffocating in France," says a 33-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin to the Charente Libre website. Because of the "gloomy atmosphere" and the "daily humiliations" related to his surname and origins, this tech employee is about to emigrate to Southeast Asia with his (…)