The minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, said on Wednesday in Rabat, that young people without diploma will benefit, for the first time, from support allocated to companies to promote employment.
In a statement to the press at the end of a meeting chaired by the head of government, Aziz Akhannouch, devoted to monitoring the implementation of the roadmap in the employment sector, in the presence of the ministerial departments concerned, Sekkouri added that “companies who employ people without diploma will benefit from subsidies, either for the payment of salaries of this category, or for their training, that this measure “constitutes a major novelty in terms of employment policies”.
Sekkouri stressed that Reunion also focused on how to educate businesses to welcome young people as part of vocational training by landing in various sectors, including those of the automobile, textiles and construction.
By increasing the number of beneficiaries of this training from 30,000 to 100,000, the government wants to give young people a broader opportunity to win an income for the work they do, noted the minister.
Regarding vocational training, the Minister stressed that the establishment of a three-year post-bac training represents a “fundamental reform in this field”, explaining that this measure supports this category of trainees in vocational training, which need a year of training in languages and general skills (soft skills) required for tourism-related slots.
Reunion, added Sekkouri, also looked at the search for means allowing the transfer of workers in the sectors, experiencing a resource surplus to others who record a shortage of labor, provided they receive appropriate training.
For the implementation of the roadmap in the employment sector, which includes eight concrete initiatives aimed at stimulating employment and reducing unemployment, the government has mobilized a budget envelope of around 15 billion dirhams.
