On July 15, 2024, the Moroccan Ministry of National Education, Primary Education and Sports issued an official memorandum addressed to the Director of Personnel Expenses at the Kingdom’s General Treasury, requesting the cancellation of all deductions from employees’ salaries registered in the information system that have not yet been processed, related to collective absences from work during the recent strike in the education sector.
This step comes within the framework of the ministry’s keenness to “consolidate the positive atmosphere” that prevailed after the sectoral social dialogue, which culminated in the agreement of December 10 and 26, 2023, and the adoption of the statute of the ministry’s employees, and to strengthen the level of trust with the various actors in the educational system and social partners.
The ministry stressed in its memorandum that the cancellation of the deductions “will contribute to completing the clearance of the atmosphere and establishing a sound and stable social climate that helps to achieve the comprehensive mobilization of all educational and administrative staff and social partners in the dynamics of reform.”
It is noteworthy that the teachers’ strike in Morocco, which lasted for several weeks, caused an almost complete paralysis of the educational sector, and the government confronted it by imposing deductions from the strikers’ wages.
Source : Fes News Media