Morocco Approves Bonus Pay for Healthcare Workers Battling COVID-19

According to sources reported by the site Assahafa, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has given the green light to the granting of an exceptional bonus to employees of the Ministry of Health.

The bonus, the amount of which has not been revealed, will be paid in two installments, half in December 2020 and the remainder in January next year. The Minister of Health, Khalid Ait Taleb, had announced in August that exceptional bonuses would be granted to health personnel "after studying the methods of determining their amounts, based on objective and transparent eligibility and distribution criteria".

The method of calculating the bonus, which has been described as a "logical and legitimate demand" by the ministerial official, will be submitted "in a transparent manner to the trade union centers, to whom a 72-hour deadline will be granted to study the proposals submitted and issue an opinion on them," Ait Taleb had stressed.