Ministry of Justice hosted last Wednesday and Thursday, December 22 and 23, 2021, the first sessions of sectorial dialogue based on the invitation extended to unions with more representativeness in the sector to discuss highlights of the process to be endorsed for the future in the sectorial dialogue.
Those meetings were presided over by the Ministry of Justice Secretary General along with director of human resources, director of finance and control and some senior executives from the central administration, secretaries general and members of national bureaus of the Democratic Union for Justice, the National Federation for the Justice sector and the Justice National Union. The meetings presented several initiatives being launched by Minister of Justice, Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi either at the legislative level through the focus on a series of rules which interest the judicial apparatus; or at the managerial level through following a participative approach in dealing with a number of demands, out of final handling of several pending issues that concern working and financial conditions of the staff and also at the level of equipment and logistics through reinforcing the justice courts infrastructure to be easily accessible o to all attendants.
According to a communiqué released by the Ministry of Justice, those meetings have discussed a number of the following points:
– Establishing the sectorial dialogue: Through renewing the period of their holding every three months, with the possibility of having extraordinary sessions if necessary at the invitation of the Justice Ministry or the unions with more representativeness by defining the agenda two weeks ahead of the holding of the sectorial dialogue session in concord with the unions and opening a communication platform with the administration by all available means.
– Reinforcing functional participative approach with all social parties through inviting unions to make their proposals and observations about the Ministry’s major projects.
The communiqué added that those meetings were an occasion to raise the topic of endorsing vaccination pass to have access to work offices. In this context, the Ministry Secretary General has confirmed that the common circular number 417 dated December 10, 2021 about endorsing sanitary pass to have access to the justice courts, has come in the context of measures being taken to protect health security of judicial premises.
The communiqué concluded by praising all initiatives taken by the Justice Ministry and the new process of this sectorial dialogue sessions, which will be reflected positively on the sector to achieve coherence and social security for the sake of the state’s supreme interest rule of law and institutions.