The Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment, and Skills, Mr. Younes Sekkouri, stated that 2024 will see continued efforts to promote social dialogue and collective bargaining through a number of measures.
During his presentation of the ministry’s draft budget to the House of Representatives’ Social Sectors Committee, the minister explained that these measures include monitoring the rounds of national social dialogue in the private sector, ensuring compliance with the commitments of the April 25 tripartite social agreement, promoting collective bargaining and encouraging the contractual labor law, as well as monitoring the implementation of the 2022 National Charter for the Institutionalization of Social Dialogue.
Regarding the broad outlines and main priorities of the draft budget for the Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment, and Skills for the 2024 fiscal year, the minister highlighted that the number of beneficiaries of the “Tahil” program will be increased to 38,000 beneficiaries, up from 34,000 in 2023, and the number of people integrated through contracts will rise to 160,000 during the same year, up from 140,000 in 2023.
The government official noted that among the measures outlined in the 2024 work program is the establishment of a new governance and management system for continuing education, through the implementation of regulatory texts related to Law 60.17 on the regulation of continuing education, This will be achieved through a project to design the administrative structure responsible for managing continuing education, developing procedures for the validation of professional experience, competency assessments, and the accumulation of training hours, and establishing an information system for continuing education, in addition to conducting consultations to develop a proposal for establishing a new governance and management system for continuing education.
Mr. El Skouri emphasized that vocational training offerings in rural areas will be expanded through the creation of support and guidance villages in rural and semi-urban areas, with a budget of up to 40 million dirhams, noting that these villages aim to provide progressive vocational training for employment, guidance, and support, with the goal of facilitating the socio-professional integration of young people and women by helping them build their own projects and supporting qualified youth in self-employment.
Sarah Al-Ramshi
