Royal Air Maroc Faces Turbulence as Pilots Challenge Rescue Plan

The origin of the dispute between the two parties is the decisions of the works council. On the eve of the holding of a meeting of the said council, the Moroccan Association of Airline Pilots (AMPL) made known through its lawyer Fekhar, approved by the Court of Cassation, that "the legal quorum of employee representatives is not reached". Consequently, "all decisions relating to economic dismissal and taken during the meeting of July 21 would be null and void".

This warning did not, however, deter RAM’s management. On Tuesday, the committee did indeed hold its meeting, during which decisions relating to economic dismissal were made, reports L’Économiste. "The legal quorum is not reached due to the retirement of one of the employee representatives elected by the company’s employees," said the pilots’ lawyer. For the pilots, the decisions of the works council can only be admissible on one condition: "prior partial elections of the PNT College representatives will have to be organized".

RAM’s management’s response did not take long. "By a hasty conclusion denoting ignorance of the legal provisions in force, your clients argue that any decision or consultation, taken during the meeting of July 21 within the framework of the legal provisions relating to economic dismissal, would be deemed null and conclude on the need to organize partial elections as soon as the number of employees of the company has exceeded 55 people," writes Bassamat Fassi-Fihri, the management’s lawyer in a letter addressed to the pilots’ defense.