Fast digital transformation exposes gaps in Morocco’s draft strike laws
The speedy development of Morocco’s draft strike regulation invoice by the Parliament’s higher home has sparked considerations about its adaptability to the digital period and its consideration of freelance and distant employees’ rights to strike.
Union leaders and authorized consultants have flagged vital authorized gaps within the laws, significantly concerning digital workspaces and the rising freelance sector.
Abdellah Aghmimt, National Secretary of the National Federation of Education – Democratic Orientation, criticized the dearth of give attention to digital work environments within the draft invoice.
“The digital dimension has been completely overlooked in the ongoing discussions about regulating the right to strike,” Aghmimt informed Hespress. He argued that the invoice, described as “solely restrictive of this constitutional right,” fails to account for the technological developments remodeling workplaces in Morocco and globally.
Aghmimt highlighted the challenges confronted by freelance and distant employees in Morocco, noting their lack of bodily places of work, formal contracts, or direct contact with employers. “These workers don’t know how to strike for their rights under this law, as they lack traditional employment frameworks,” he stated.
The draft legislation additionally neglects the speedy digitalization of private and non-private sector operations, Aghmimt added. He questioned the effectiveness of strikes in industries with out bodily workplaces and raised considerations about Moroccan employees employed remotely for overseas firms.
“The government needs to adapt this law to include these categories of workers,” Aghmimt urged, calling for the withdrawal of the present invoice. Despite amendments, he argued, the draft laws nonetheless closely restricts the constitutional proper to strike.
Abdelaziz Khalil, a authorized scholar, echoed these considerations. “The draft law raises questions about how freelance workers can exercise their right to strike,” he informed Hespress.
Khalil famous that workers with formal contracts in digital sectors would nonetheless be topic to the provisions of the draft legislation, which aligns with Morocco’s labor code. However, freelancers, working with out contracts and primarily based on agreed manufacturing quotas for set charges, stay unaddressed.
The considerations spotlight the rising want for Morocco to modernize its labor legal guidelines to mirror the realities of an more and more digital and freelance-driven economic system.
