In this context, the minister focused on the programs that the government will seek to implement from the start of next year, including a business support program through the National Promotion Agency. of employment and skills (ANAPEC), in order to hire workers without diplomas.
Mr. Sekkouri focused on the work-study training program, aimed at ensuring the professional integration of young unemployed people in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and cooperatives in rural areas, which plans to increase the number of beneficiaries from 20,000 to 100,000 in 2025 nationally, emphasizing that “this training model has proven its effectiveness in terms of integration into the labor market”.
He also mentioned the rural employment stabilization program, through which the government aims to support and encourage farmers to maintain jobs in rural areas.
Furthermore, the minister noted that the government’s efforts enabled, during the 3rd quarter of 2024, the creation of 300,000 jobs, in structuring sectors, such as industry, commerce, tourism, construction and public works. (construction) and crafts.
Concerning the legal minimum wage in the private sector, both for agricultural and non-agricultural activities, Mr. Sekkouri indicated that the government adopted a draft decree which provides for its increase of 5% from January 1, 2025, implementing before the draft organic law defining the conditions and modalities for exercising the right to strike currently being approved, which intends to protect workers, the company and expand trade union freedoms.
This meeting, which took place in the presence of party officials and political and civil actors, was marked by interventions from the regional, provincial and local PAM secretariat.
