Moroccan TV Channel Ordered to Pay $270,000 for Unfair Dismissal of Union-Active Journalist

2.7 million dirhams. This is the total amount of compensation that the channel will have to pay the journalist and star presenter, for all the damages suffered since his dismissal on July 16 last.

In its decision, the Labor Court ordered the management of the channel to pay damages of 1.16 million dirhams, 145,017 dirhams for the notice period, 1.31 million dirhams for the dismissal and 51,360 dirhams for the 2020 annual leave.

Youssef Belhaissi, one of the star faces of the Tangier channel’s audiovisual landscape, had been pushed out the door due to differences of opinion, but above all, for his "union commitment within the company," an internal source had confided.

Several successive events had led to a standoff between the management of the channel and the staff representatives, in particular a case of dismissal, the grouping of radio and television personnel and the recall of the Rabat office teams to the Tangier headquarters.