LDuring his presentation before the Committee on Education, Culture and Social Affairs of the organic bill, according to the formula adopted by the House of Representatives, the minister expressed the government’s readiness to “interact positively with the majority of union proposals”, indicating that the trade union centers have presented practical proposals, which will be studied with a view to their inclusion in the bill.
Sekkouri insisted that the version of the legislative text transmitted to the House of Advisors remained “temporary and open to amendments from parliamentary advisors”.
During this meeting, the minister reviewed the essential amendments to the bill, which include stipulating in an article, similar to the preamble, that the right to strike is a constitutional right exercised in accordance with the provisions of this organic law. , and that any waiver of this right is considered void. This article also states that this right is one of the human rights that contribute to the achievement of justice and social peace as well as the guarantee of the social contract.
According to Sekkouri, this article guarantees the expansion of the field of freedoms in accordance with the relevant international conventions and promotes the historical achievements linked to the national practice of this constitutional right, in addition to establishing a balance in the preservation of the rights of strikers, to consecrate freedom of work and to preserve the rights of citizens in the exercise of the right to strike.
The amendments also concern the definition of strike and the expansion of the categories covered by the exercise of this right, as well as the expansion of the parties that call for the exercise of this right, in addition to stipulating the reasons for the strike , which include the file of demands, the controversial points and the dangerousness of the situation, he explained.
-On the other hand, Sekkouri indicated that the amendments provide for the protection of the rights of strikers against any discriminatory measures and against disciplinary sanctions or dismissal, in exchange for the removal of a certain number of provisions relating to the prevention of strikes for political purposes, the removal of the ban on rotating strikes, the use of harsher criminal sanctions and the abolition of prison sentences.
In terms of form, the official specified that the number of chapters of this legislative text was reduced from 6 chapters to 4, while the number of its articles was reduced from 49 to 35, in addition to the deletion of the chapter on the conditions for exercising the right to strike in the private sector and the chapter on the conditions for exercising the right to strike in the public sector to merge them into a single chapter.
(with MAP)
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