Moroccan tourism is still shaken by the Covid pandemic. Despite the measures taken to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on the sector, arrivals of tourists at border posts have recorded a 78% drop.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and especially following the recent preventive measures imposed for the month of Ramadan, cafe and restaurant owners and employees are in the doldrums. A situation that concerns the deputies and in the face of which the government is considering taking urgent measures.
The residents of Fnideq have once again demonstrated in the streets of the city, but this time violently and in blood. They accuse the government of not having honored its promise, made last February, to employ thousands of people in the commune.
Due to the health crisis, the Spanish automotive supplier Jobelsa is considering laying off 400 more employees. But for the latter, who have been staging a sit-in for a few days, this is a false reason to get rid of them.
A Spanish car seat manufacturing company in Tangier has laid off 400 employees who have decided to organize an unlimited sit-in to protest against this mass layoff. They dispute the economic reason put forward by the company, which has just opened a subsidiary in Kenitra.
As part of International Women’s Day celebrated on March 8th under the theme "Women’s Leadership: For an Equal Future in the World of Covid-19", the High Commission for Planning (HCP) published the results of a study on the situation of women in Morocco covering health, education-training, access to the labor market, time use, violence against women and standard of living. In this note made public, the HCP notes among other things that in 2020, several obstacles have marked the daily life of Moroccan women.
In order to overcome the consequences of the health crisis, Moroccans are taking refuge in savings. Given the uncertainty hanging over economic life, with its share of unemployment, this option offers a certain security.
More than six months after the dismissal of Royal Air Maroc’s airline pilots, the national carrier will announce a new wave of layoffs. Nearly 177 cabin crew (PNC) members of its subsidiary Atlas Multiservices (AMS) have received their dismissal letter for economic reasons.
Between 2019 and 2020, the unemployment rate rose from 9.2% to 11.9%, an increase of 2.7 points. The announcement was made by the High Commission for Planning (HCP), which specifies that this increase takes into account all categories of the population.
In 2020, 11.5% of irregular migrants in Catalonia are Moroccan nationals. They also represent the largest group of unemployed immigrants. This is revealed in a report by the Information Center for Foreign Workers (CITE).
From January to November 2020, Moroccan tourism revenues fell by 51% due to the consequences of the health crisis. But the decline had a mitigating factor of 76% a month earlier, due to the arrivals of Moroccans living abroad, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Life has not really been kind to Meriem, this young woman from Khemisset. Once a French teacher, she has become a homeless person, who spends her nights in a cemetery in Skhirat .