Morocco Cracks Down on Absentee Civil Servants with Digital Reforms

In a statement to the House of Councillors reported by the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, Mezzour indicated that "Morocco has an important legal arsenal, in particular the procedure for termination of employment provided for in the general statute of the civil service as well as in law no. 12.81 relating to deductions from the salaries of civil servants, state and local authority employees who are absent from their work without valid reason."

For the Minister of Digital Transition, preventive measures such as the installation of "clocking" devices to control the entry and exit of civil servants can be taken. Unannounced checks in ministerial departments can also be organized to fight against absenteeism of civil servants.

Mezzour recalled that "illegal absence from work constitutes a violation of professional obligations which has the effect of harming the interests of users, hindering investment and undermining the general interest," emphasizing the importance of collective certificates of presence and absence of civil servants.

These documents attesting to the presence of civil servants at their posts are periodically sent to the services of the General Treasury of the Kingdom (TGR) to be compared with the lists of salaries received by them. Monitoring mechanisms for these measures have been put in place in the administrations, assures the minister.