Moroccan Workers Push for COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits, Sparking Employer Tensions

Some employees have pulled out all the stops to be included on the list of employees eligible for the 2,000 dirhams per month allowance granted by the Special Fund for the Management of covid-19 over a period of three months, reports Assabah. These employees have opted to stay at home to receive this allowance instead of working eight hours a day for a month.

During his intervention in parliament, the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, hinted that business leaders have been confronted by their employees who have told them that they have nothing to lose, after all, since it is the State that pays, specifies the same source. This would also explain the fact that the number of employees benefiting from this allowance has reached 800,000 employees for 131,000 companies.